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While outrageous, this is the tip of the iceberg.

Proposals for complete real-time accessible logging of all communications... secret trials.. "limits to freedom of speech".

I will leave this country once the net is monitored heavily.

P.S. please take any daily mail article with a nice pinch of salt!

Leadertask is a PIM. I've downloaded it and I'm liking it so far - free mobile apps with synchronisation too!

Usually $35

http://www.bitsdujour.com...sonal-organizer-standard/

[Release: v 0.1.1]

Thanks Deozaan! 

Release: v 0.1.1
- Bug fix for error appearing when episode downloaded

Changelog is available here and the links on my website have been updated. Will update the uploaded zip here now.

Thanks Bionic71, grabbed a copy 

[Update:]

Update: 0.1.1 released with minor bug fix. Please update - changelog is here

I've released my first (worthwhile) program just now - Podcasts One.

As I mention on my site:

Podcasts One is a simple, free tool to subscribe to and download podcasts.

 It currently features the basic, expected features:

• Add and remove RSS feeds
  
• Download individual podcasts

 

• Several features are planned, but Podcasts One will always be simple in nature:
  
• Settings (such as default download folder)
  
• Automatic download mode
  
• Interface enhancements (pretty album covers, etc)

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You can download 0.1 here (edit: here's the zip or download the attachment here) (needs .NET Framework 4). I would love if anyone on a Windows version other than 7 could let me know how it runs, as that's "all" I have.

Thanks, looking forward to painful criticism  

Thanks a lot for the replies ham and Ath - very useful.

I'll try iterating over the parent node - and also try deleting all colons from the XML file (apart from actual namespaces) and then reading the file with the "query term" de-coloned too

I'll let you know if I'm successful.. thanks again!

[C#]

Hi all 

Someone's let me loose with C#.

I've nearly finished a podcast downloader application, and I'm ironing out several bugs. One of which is that I have some code that is using XmlDocument.SelectSingleNode:

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XmlNode node = doc.SelectSingleNode("rss/channel/item/title[.=\'" + episode + "\']");

Now, there is a bug when the episode variable has a colon ( : ) in it - I'd guess because it thinks I'm declaring a namespace or something.

Does anyone have a suggestion of how to escape the : character in a string please?

Many thanks!

New design looks lovely from the April SS

Excited to see the changes!

Does donating DC credit count towards the total?

This is such great news - the model works! 

Wow thank you everyone, sorry for the delay in replying - I had to pay attention to family over Easter 

I'll take a look at all your suggestions - appreciated!

Hi all 

My mum has RSI in her hand and I really think something like TextExpander but for Windows 7. Could anyone recommend anything please?

Free or paid is fine, She would probably pay in the region of $30.

Thanks in advance!

Nice review IainB!

Sounds like a great program. Could you tell me please if FFS can backup to network shares, maybe WebDAV etc. for remote backup?

Thanks!

Hi Chris, welcome to Donation Coder 

You have some nice looking stuff, I'll take a look! Everyone is great around here, so I'm sure you'll enjoy it 

What language(s) do you use for your apps?

Matt

I just wanted to thank you for these tutorials Bryan, I'm working my way through and enjoying them a lot 

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I just discovered http://allmyapps.com. This is a application download website that has only silent installs. The best thing is that you can create a account, select all the applications you use and install them all at once unattended. This is super great if you need to reinstall a PC. 

Thanks, this looks very useful !

After a few years hiatus using Mac OS X, I've just come back to Windows (alongside the Mac still though) and it's funny, I was in a total panic to install AV and Windows Updates before anything terrible happened.

I'm a sysadmin of a Windows network, so maybe having alerts screaming up at me all day blurs my perspective. But, even as a careful user, you never know what might happen at 3am when you're tired as hell and just click that UAC alert to get rid of it..

ESET all the way for me!

RSS is just XML. Use ElementTree. It is a standard module in 2.5.

Genius! Thanks. I'll begin tapping away - it just seemed to me that RSS readers are geared towards reading feeds like email, no quick notifications within one sentence.

Fingers crossed!

All,

Firstly - hi friends, sorry for the lengthy absence!

Right, down to business. I need a command line RSS reader, preferably with the following attributes:

• Python based, or at least as cross-platform as possible. Please, no perl!!
• I only need the title to be displayed, and maybe a URL.
• Nothing fancy, it doesn't need to run off a database and remember everything, just for instant alerts, much like twitter.

The idea is I need something to track high-activity RSS feeds, such as the digg feed, or reuters feed, or keyword feeds for google blog search etc..

I could write this myself, I guess, but it is a matter of time.

OK, sod it, I will have a go myself! Can anyone suggest a small, light, RSS lib for python? Thanks! 

Congrats, CleverCat! I used it when I was on Windows. Definitely worth having in the research arsenal.

You've also just this second made it on to Lifehacker!

http://lifehacker.com/sof...ssors-reviewed-270347.php

Congrats!

http://blogs.zoho.com/gen...-word-processor-category/

Hi friends.. sorry for absence as of late, hope all are well and speak soon 

Just thought I would mention there is also KoolIM and Mabber 

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I know this is a pointless post.. but it really is the responsibility of website designers to create printer-friendly pages. Just a reminder to those who make-their-own 

great stuff!
ps. redhat you know you are suppose to attach a picture so i can blog more easily!

Bahh!! Slave driver!!!!!!!!!!  Can never do anything right!!!!