Marc Abramowitz – Page 207

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Restarting fetchmail automatically

I use fetchmail (in daemon mode) to pull down mail from a POP server to my local box, where I then serve it up with the Courier IMAP server. Problem I had was when my box rebooted, fetchmail could not automatically restart...

FirefoxJavaScriptProgramming

Remote XUL is a pain

I'm struggling to get a remote XUL app working that uses a dont-build-content tree XUL template with a remote RDF datasource. The problem is that Mozilla's security model is just too restrictive in terms of what remote XUL and...

General

appcasting

I had the same idea espoused in Robin Good's post about appcasting. I experimented with the idea using this post on my blog. This was a lame example as my search sidebar extension is only 11KB, but it was a proof of concept -...

General

next.yahoo.com

Want to see the latest stuff that Yahoo! is working on? http://next.yahoo.com/ Some highlights currently on there: Yahoo! Search Developer Network (YSDN) Yahoo! Toolbar Beta: Firefox Y!Q Beta My Yahoo! Ticker Beta My Yahoo! with...

General

Know thyself

Yahoo! Personals is offering a free Personality Test. It's a fun little, Flash-based test that takes only about 10 minutes to complete and then you get a report which tells you aboout your personality type and what type of...

FirefoxProgramming

Yahoo Search Sidebar listed on Mozilla Update and other places

It took a while, but I finally got my Yahoo Search Sidebar listed on Mozilla Update. And here it is on extensionroom.mozdev.org. It got posted on there on Wednesday with a little help from Jeremy Gillick. And here it on...

ProgrammingTiVo

TiVo Bloglines reader

An interesting application of the TiVo HME API: TivoBloglines