2006/02/17: News and Links of interest

Craig David’s mobile music quest. R&B star Craig David explains why the mobile phone is the future of music. [BBC News | Technology | World Edition]

Windows OEM Not Transferable to New Motherboard. “Microsoft recently made a change to the licence agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence you need to purchase a new Windows licence. Here is what Microsoft has to say: “An upgrade of the motherboard is considered to result in a ‘new personal computer’ to which Microsoft OEM operating system software cannot be transferred from another computer. If the motherboard is upgraded or replaced for reasons other than a defect, then a new computer has been created and the license of new operating system software is required.” Please note that this does not go for retail copies of Windows, but only for OEM versions. [OSNews]

Apple Serves DMCA Violation Notice to OSx86 Project. As was to be expected, Apple’s legal team got busy concerning the OSx86 Project. Just days after OSX 10.4.4 for Intel got cracked, the project closed down its forum with the following notice: “We’re sorry to report that despite our best efforts, the OSx86 Project has been served with a DMCA violation notice. The forum will be unavailable while we evaluate its contents to remove any violations present. We thank you for your patience in this matter.” [OSNews]

HubSpot: IT for Very Small Business

http://hubspot.com/

Guy Kawasaki: The Art of Creating a Community

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/the_art_of_crea.html

NewsRiver template

I think that the “NewsRiver” app running inside the OPML Editor really needs a new set of templates. I found the standard one really hard to use, as I have been using Lilina, a PHP-based aggregator that includes a nicer layout in the standard distribution.

My first aggregator was the beta of Radio, and as I love the concept, the layout has stayed the same for much too long. I would like to see collapsable headlines and a smaller font. Also the favicons of each site.

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News River and accented characters

17/02/06; 11:38:29 a.m. by OVL

Now I am finding feeds with more and more characters that are not being show correctly, and they differ from what I already have added to fix.

So maybe I have to go back to where the aggregator gets the text, and see why this is happening. “Lilina” (the aggregator I used before) alwasy showed the correct chars on screen.

17/02/06; 11:00:26 a.m. by OVL

This is a sequence of chars that I have found in Woot’s feed that defies being replaced by the OPML Editor:

  Â

17/02/06; 04:12:20 a.m. by OVL

I have added the following code at

newsRiverSuite.viewNewsItem

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"â��","‘")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"Ã ","à")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"è","è")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"Ã�","×")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"â��","”")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"â��","–")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"â��","“")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"â��","’")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"¡","¡")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"á","á")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"é","é")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"í","í")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"ú","ú")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"¿","¿")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"ñ","ñ")

storytext=string.replaceAll(storytext,"ó","ó")

15/02/06; 12:59:48 p.m. by OVL

I am now looking at the code at

xml.rss.compileService

, so I can clean up the text as it is coming inside the system

15/02/06; 10:46:08 a.m. by OVL

Working inside

newsRiverSuite.viewNewsItems

, that's where the data gets wrapped in html.

I can search and replace for the accented characters there, just have to compile a list and copy-paste-edit-repeat.

There is also a problem with accented characters

áéíóú

From an aggregated item: Además

Should the aggregator convert the character on the fly?