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2009.06.17 Fever° Red hot. Well read.

A self-hosted feed aggregator, reader and ranker, designed by the same brilliant man behind Mint. I've been a Google Reader user for a long time, but have wanted a self-hosted version for quite a while, mainly so I could own or control my content. Although I've tried most other services, I kept going back to Google Reader for one main reason - it would scan my feeds even when I wasn't connected. Not many other services out there offered that, and others I tried were just too fugly to consider. Fever not only aggregates while I'm disconnected, but it has a stellar interface. The best bit of hotness, is that it analyzes your feeds and groups things that have been linked to frequently by multiple sources, and comes up with a handy temperature for how hot that bit of news is. I, like many others, have known Shaun was working on something like this for a while, but I was extremely pleased to see exactly what it was. Well worth the $30. #

2009.05.25 axono.me - isometric pixel art grid library for jQuery

Pretty slick setup. I was most captivated by the racing cubes demo, so I tossed together a little axono.me Mario Brothers Race which wasn't much of a stretch beyond one of the original demos. #

2009.05.12 Real World 404

Perfect. #

2009.05.11 A Coda Theme based on Ryan Bate's Railscast Theme

Although I use both Coda and Espresso, this theme by Joe Bergantine is great. I spend too much time staring at code not to be able to appreciate this (plus, who doesn't love the railscast theme?) #

2009.05.09 Website Thumbnail Generator Web App - thummer

Still on the trail of website thumbnail creation, but this time a self-hosted version. If I had a private server with my web host, I'd probably investigate this option a bit closer. It wants me to do more than I'm allowed to do on my host, but seems more accurate than a simple converter like khtml2png. Django, python, kvfb and CutyCapt... the latter two are the real hang-ups for me, since they require me to be able to install as sudo. #

2009.05.09 thumbalizr - thumb your webpages

Ever since ma.gnolia crashed I've been looking around for bookmarking options. Although I'm thrilled with my self-hosting, I'm looking around for options to capture screenshots, thumbnails, or just the text of websites (to accompany bookmarks) for my own safe-keeping. Although I'd prefer to host my own engine for this, if at this moment I had to pick a third party to handle it, thumbalizr would be it, since it lets you store the images on your own server. #

2009.05.08 Konami Code Sites

If you remember Contra like I do, or have heard a reference to the magical code… now certain sites on the interwebs give you a bit more too. #

2009.05.06 cufón - fonts for the people

With full respect to SIFR and how nice it was/is to get alternate fonts into web pages, Cufón is so easy, it makes me wonder why I ever spent the time to figure out SIFR. Very slick. #

2009.05.02 DelliStore: A Free Professional CSS/XHTML/PSD-Template

I wish Smashing Magazine had these back in the day when I started to learn about web design/development, since I would have eaten this stuff up. Instead of chopping apart other people's sites to learn how to adjust stuff, this is a cleanly coded site, just waiting for any manipulation to be made. Slick. #

2009.04.28 Mint: Bird Feeder Pepper

Personally, I love Mint for tracking website stats. Previously I was hooked on Google Analytics, but Mint gives me the info I want and not all the trivial information that doesn't really matter. This little addon (or "pepper") to Mint helps track stats about feeds and clicks on those feeds. Although it's a little tricky to set up, it's already proving its value. #

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