For My Own Amusement

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One of the most time consuming thing I do in my day is go through my RSS feeds and skim past every item. To try and make my life easier I recently purchased Feverº and absolutely love it! It lets me set Kindling for feeds I must read and Sparks for feeds that I kind of want to keep track of. Both these categories add to the Hot list. Basically Feverº works out how popular a news item is by the Kindling and Sparks items and how many links they have.

So rather than having everything in Kindling I’ve slowly been moving the high volume low value feeds to Sparks.

My hope is rather than an hour + per day I can limit RSS reading to 5 minutes yet still feel like I’m not missing something.

Just so I remember…

To remove the border skin from a Flex 2 Button or other Flex Components use the following CSS:

skin: ClassReference("mx.skins.ProgrammaticSkin");

Here’s a great list of the top 500 worst (most commonly used) passwords.

The Top 500 Worst Passwords of All Time

1Password

It’s another great reason why I use 1Password.

One of it’s best features is the Password Generator.

1Password's in-built Password Generator

For any site or service I sign up for I use the Password Generator to create something nice and random. 1Password then remembers it all for me. So I only remember my “1 Password” and 1Password remembers the rest.

I thoroughly recommend it. It’s integration in to all major browsers is fantastic.

These are my links for December 9th through December 17th:

• 30 inspiring type treatments –
• The Grid System –
• Magic/Replace – Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB – Upload and simply clean up data from CSV or XLS formats
• coverstory – Google Code –
• Logo Of The Day – Logo Design Inspiration, Gallery & Award Scheme! –

These are my links for November 12th through November 26th:

• D.I.Y. Hot Sauce – Bitten Blog – NYTimes.com –
• CakePHP: the rapid development php framework. Home –
• memcached: a distributed memory object caching system –
• The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press –
• freesound :: home page –
• Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops –
• Well-formed data » Election visualization roundup –

These are my links for November 8th through November 11th:

• 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes –
• css-vfx – Google Code –
• inside looking out » Blog Archive » Building CoverFlow for Safari on iPhone –
• A Video Tutorial About PHP Working With Flex | FlexMan –
• http://flex.org/showcase/ –

These are my links for November 6th from 12:10 to 18:35:

• Ridley Vintage Motorbikes : Models :: The Desert Patrol –
• Javascript does Cocoa too › Vacuous Virtuoso –
• jscocoa – Google Code –
• JSCocoa — A bridge from JavascriptCore to Cocoa –
• Carsonified » Blog Archive » Why Objective-J, Cappuccino and SproutCore are completely changing the web app industry –

These are my links for October 29th from 15:47 to 18:02:

• Bash Scripts for working with ActionScript 3 in TextMate at Mike Chambers –
• SUMO – Very impressive flash based image editor. Some very very smooth tools
• Find, try, buy and download fonts online : MyFonts –
• fluint – Google Code –
• Automated testing and you, self-help for the Flex developer: Part 1 – InsideRIA –
• 50 Excellent AJAX Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine –
• ADC—Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby –
• » BendPixels: use PixelBender filters as Flex Effects | Rags to Riches –
• Away3D 2.2: Let’s Enjoy The Charming of 3D By RailAway Express | FlexMan –