Check out these free [tag]webcasts[/tag] of courses going on at UC Berkeley. Among the more interesting ones are Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and a course on Search Engines, with many guests you’ve probably heard of. Good stuff, although somewhat sadly, all in my least favorite format: Realplayer.
Daily Archives: 1/10/2006
WordPress FeedBurner Plugin
Quite some time ago, I started using Feedburner to republish my RSS feed. It’s nice because you can actually see who is reading your blog via RSS, what items they click through and the like. But I was sending a mixed message, you could subscribe to my feed either by the ordinary WordPress feed, or via FeedBurner.  The solution is to redirect the WordPress feed automatically to the Feedburner feed, but this has a problem: Feedburner still needs to access your feed, so you can’t redirect it.  The resulting mod_rewrite stuff always seemed like a pain, so I was happy to find the following plugin by Steve Smith, which makes all these problems go away.
If you have a similar problem, be sure to check it out.
WordPress FeedBurner Plugin // Ordered List by Steve Smith
[tags]WordPress,Blogging,FeedBurner[/tags]
snowman 2006 – Google Video
One of the somewhat interesting features of Google Video is now that you can put video from Google into your webpage. Here’s a Snowman video from WGBH Boston, and below you can see the player embedded in a web posting.
Deleted the video player
Something about WordPress insists on rewriting the contents of my post and breaks the formatting. I’ll figure it out later. If you figure it out, let let me know.
[tags]Google,Google Video,Multimedia[/tags]
MacWorld Announcements
Well, Steve is still up there, but the big news (as yet unreflected on the Apple website) is the announcement of a new Intel based iMac. It will apparently come in the same sizes and prices as previous G5 iMacs, but will use Intel’s new CoreDuo processor that was plugged by Intel so heavily at CES last week.
There is also some nice improvements to their existing iLife suite, including the addition of the (somewhat predictably name) iWeb: a web authoring suite that includes the ability to create and publish rich media websites using premade Apple templates. Notable for podcasters, GarageBand will also include a Podcast Suite: a set of features designed to make the creation of podcasts simple and easy.
Addendum: Two new laptop models will be available in February: the MacBook Pro, also with the Core Duo Processor, $1999 and $2499. It will include the iSight camera, Front Row, all that kind of stuff. Neat!
[tags]Apple,Podcasting,MacWorld,iMac,Intel[/tags]