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These are my links for Dezember 6th through Dezember 8th:

• Synology Inc. • View topic – IPKG DS410J –
  (tags: ipkg shell script bootstrap synology DS410j )
• Save a Bookmark – YouTube RSS feed items come as embedded Flash players. This is usefull if you want to view them on the Internet with some online feed reader, but it is not ok for offline viewers, where you fetch feed items and view them later without connection to Internet. For example this can be usefull for podcast programs in mobile phones or PSP. So with such phone, you can subscribe to YouTube feed here, simply download items while you are at home through Wi-Fi and watch them on the go later.
  (tags: rss youtube podcast itunes video tools iphone macosx )
• ezRSS – Life made easy – What is this? EZRSS is a rss feed for eztv. You can use it to have your bittorrent client download your favourite shows from eztv as they get released, rather than having to stay up all night waiting for them – completely automatically.
  (tags: tv rss torrent bittorrent video series download )
• NSLU2-Linux – DS101/DS101BootStrap browse – This document describes the necessary steps to prepare the DS-101(g+) for later ipk-package installation, so that you can install packages from the feed by doing ipkg install ‹packagename›
  (tags: synology linux hack networking howto install reference ipkg nas )
• Das deutsche Synology Support Forum – Einzelnen Beitrag anzeigen – spk – Paketmanagement und 3rd-party-apps – Um die vielen hier im Forum beschriebenen 3rd-party-applications auch per spk-Paketmanagement nutzen zu können, müssen Vorarbeiten erledigt werden. Diese Vorarbeiten bereiten den sys-Apache-Web-Server darauf vor, die (administrativen) Zugriffe auf Dateien und Programme zu ermöglichen, die von einzelnen 3rd-party-applications verwendet werden.
  (tags: synology 3rdparty package management )

As you may have noticed Ⅰ am redesigning the site a bit. In this little series Ⅰ will be posting some tips and tricks how certain things get done here.

You may have noticed the addition of a third column — or rather a second sidebar. This was done by utilizing a variant of k2 called „3 Column K2„. In these sidebars Ⅰ have chosen to actually use the widgets for adding and customizing stuff (rather than editing the source files as Ⅰ did in my previous attempts of adapting k2 to my needs).

Also you might find that little entry from my last.fm journal interesting. It got placed there via a php-widget with the following code (thanks to Jeriko One for the code):

<h2 class="widgettitle"><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/dekay/journal/" 
    title="Syndicate as RSS">last.fm journal</a></h2>
<span class="metalink">
    <img src="http://www.last.fm/favicon.ico" alt="RSS" />
</span>
<?php require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php'); ?>
<?php $today = current_time('mysql', 1); ?>
<?php
$rss = @fetch_rss('http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/dekay/journals.rss');
if ( isset($rss->items) && 0 != count($rss->items) ) { ?>
<ul>
    <?php
    $rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 1);
    foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {
        ?>
    <li>
        <a href='<?php echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']); ?>'>
        <?php echo wp_specialchars($item['title']); ?></a> <br/>
        <small>—
        <?php echo human_time_diff( strtotime($item[’pubdate’], time())); _e(’ago’); ?>
        </small><br/>
        <?php echo  _e($item['description']) ?>
    </li>

<?php } } ?> </ul>

The above source code display with all its color coding glory was produced by textmate, theme by Thomas Aylott — even though it seems not all color markups make it.

Where is the technorati for science? A site that accumulates all abstracts of scientific publications that you can search for – based on content, author, publication, keywords. A site that offers RSS feeds for those searches.

What else could be done with a system like this?

• it would be very easy to stay up-to-date with current scientific progress – new publications on a subject would just appear in your inbox
• there would finally be a single place that would be the source of all your inquiries – your RSS feed reader! User’s choice!
• since RSS feeds can contain quite a bunch of meta data it would be very easy to integrate your reference manager – just point and click and save the abstract plus reference info, directly from the feed reader.
• integrate the system with social reference managers like citeUlike or connotea – making those social networks and meta information much more valuable as well as accessible.

But then Ⅰ just realize this may not ever going to happen – too many publishers are probably afraid of sharing that much freely; the service would probably be even interesting to scientists if it was not for free, if academic discounts are available.