I’ve recently enjoyed a brief exchange with Scott Wilson on a CETIS after he asked "is Pipes the new HyperCard". I felt I had to comment, not least because it was with HyperCard that I first learnt how develop interactive content, so I felt I understood a little about just how revolutionary that application was. [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Could Yahoo Pipes make repository interoperability obsolete?
Being able to search aggregated RSS feeds is nothing new, but the combination and filter functions offered by Yahoo Pipes is. One obvious early use of this technology is repository searching. Although some but by no means all repositories allow you to subscribe to search results as RSS feeds, the ability to search across multiple [...]
RSS as commodity
Now I want to share these RSS feeds. So I send you my feed on RSS resources [...] You receive it, like it, but want to add some of your own links and re-annotate some of mine. By doing so you then make a new feed that can be shared back with me or with [...]
Getting the URL of an email message in mail.app using AppleScript
I’ll not tell you how much time I’ve wasted trying to find a way of using AppleScript to generate a link (file path or URL) to an individual email message in Mail.app. There are a number of solutions on the web but most involve invoking a shell script to run a Spotlight query from the [...]