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4 posts from December 2007
December 19, 2007
December 12, 2007
Page Support in Windows Live Writer
A feature in Writer that not everyone knows about (yet :) ) is it's support for publishing pages. This support is (to my knowledge) currently limited to Wordpress and Typepad. Writer does use the Wordpress API for publishing pages, so any other providers out there that would like to add support just need to implement the page portion of the API and then use the Writer Provider API to notify Writer that pages are supported.
If you are using Wordpress or Typepad today, you are in luck- here is a quick tour of pages in Windows Live Writer.
December 10, 2007
Firefox 3.0 Beta 2
I've been playing with Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 at home. The feature list that I saw circulating on the yet was actually kind of a yawner, IMO, but I have to say there are a couple things that I absolutely love about it.
1) It is really, really fast. Pages render extremely quickly and the application itself starts extremely fast. This feature alone makes me stop using old versions of Firefox.
2) When you start typing a URL, you are greeted not by a lame combo box style drop down of your URL history, but with this excellent piece of UI:
Once again, it is a little tiny thing, but it is really a huge improvement over the old style combo box. It is much easier to pick out the URL that you are looking for, and as a result, what used to be a useless distraction becomes a useful shortcut.
3) It is currently called 'Minefield', but it is really pretty darn high quality. I have had very few problems using it as my everyday browser. It downloads an update seemingly every day, which is also great, since I am beta testing.
Technorati Tags: Firefox 3.0
December 06, 2007
Google Charting API
How cool is this?
The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. To see the Chart API in action, open up a browser window and copy the following URL into it:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=lc&chs=200x125&chd=s:helloWorldPress the Enter or Return key and - presto! - you should see the following image:
Very cool. In fact, just from reading the documentation, twiddling the URL, and using an IMG tag, here is a readymade graph for this post.
It's joke, in case you don't get it. [Originally from here]
