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RSS2PDF – Free Online RSS and Atom to PDF Generator

I’ve discovered this website while on the internet, http://www.rss2pdf.com/. Like the title said, this website can turn any of your syndication feeds into pretty PDF documents. RSS2PDF also supports news feed auto-discovery making your life a little bit easier.

What can you do with RSS2PDF? Well for starters, the website itself has given some ideas to visitors on how to utilise them, such as creating comic PDF from any feed at Tapestry Comics, turn google news into pdf articles, and publish your blog feed into paper-based bulletin and transform your flickr photos in PDF style album. The choices are just limitless

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Comparing Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0

Came across this article which discusses about Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 features. I’m interested in this article because I also in the process of implementing/writing RSS/Atom feed plugin myself.

The document itself seems to bias on Atom 1.0 feed, and contain one factual error in which it states that Blogger publishing protocol is widely use with RSS, which is wrong. Blogger use Atom api as its publishing protocol.

Other than that, this document is great is you want to glance through the differences between RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 which is (becoming) an IETF standards-track RFC.

Read the article : RSS 2.0 and Atom1.0, Compared

Worth reading :
RSS 2.0 Specification
Atom 1.0 Syndication Format
What is RSS
Atom Wiki Page

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Linuxtracker – GNU/Linux torrent tracker site

Hey, i found a GNU/Linux distro bittorent tracker site at http://linuxtracker.org/. You can find a lot of GNU/Linux distro here from the most familiar (Debian, Fedora, SUSE and Slackware) to seldom heard distro (astaro, auditor, b2d, berrylinux, etc). There’s a lot of distro to choose from! The list is not only limited to GNU/Linux distro, *BSD distro flavour derived operating systems are also listed here (FreeBSD, opensolaris, netbsd, OpenBSD, etc), making choices more diversified.

On the negative side, distros (torrents) offered here seems to lack seeders, with the exception of popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Knoppix, etc), you will be considered lucky if you can get a torrent with more than 10 seeders for some seldom heard distro.

Finally, this site can be useful for you if you want to try out exotic distro or to find how diversified GNU/Linux distributions are.

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AdBrite added Intermission option


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AdBrite offers a new type of advertisement, instead of offering 1,7 and 30-day text-links, advertisers now can choose the “Intermission” option. This options allows you to pay only when someone visits your site. Think it as a “Sponsored Links” but you are only promoting your website (without products and services).

With this option, you will not write or upload an ad. Instead, visitors will automatically be taken to your site. Starting bid for Intermission is $0.01, but it depends on bids made by other advertisers.

IMHO, it’s great for AdBrite to add options for those who only want to place their links on another website. At least it could add diversity to text-links advertisements.

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Spammers got creative with names

I’ve opened my e-mail today, just to be greeted by somebody named Mr. Sulu, or to be exact, Dr Borneo Sulu (check out the name). Plus, this particular Mr Sulu is not a navigator in the starship Enterprise, but instead an auditor from Ministry of Finance from Malaysia(!).

here’s the excerpt of the email

I am Dr.Borneo Sulu an auditor with the Contract Evaluation Unit,Ministry Of Finance .Last year November one Mr.Raheem Praveen from India executed contract through
the Ministry of Aviation here in Malaysia, the contract is worth [$8,250,000.00]

Ministry of Aviation? hmm.. I’d say,
Take us outta here Mr Sulu, ahead warp factor 9

Sulu in USS Enterprise

p/s: Spammers are everywhere, they tried every creative way to create and backed their story up. I wonder if any of malaysian fall for them?

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BitlBee – turn your IRC client into multiprotocol Instant Messenger client

biltbee logo at blog.mypapit.net

Check out BitlBee, IRC gateway that can turn your irc client into a multi-protocol Instant Messenger client!

The main motivation behind BiltBee is to enable console users to use a multi-protocol Instant Messenger client. Since irc clients is common in console environments, so BiltBee is implemented as a gateway server, so that a user can connect to their favorite IM networks as if connecting through an irc server.

BiltBee server is available under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows platform. It supports MSN, ICQ, Jabber, AIM, and Yahoo! IM networks.

You can connect to public Bitbee server through CGI interface at http://cgi.bitlbee.org if you don’t want to install BitlBee in your computer.

BitlBee Screenshot :

Oh, BitlBee is licensed in GNU General Public License.

  1. BitlBee website
  2. BitlBee public server