Hi,
Following are some of the links I came across while trying to make a python based rss aggregator. Although the following resources(links) can guide to some really cool stuff, my plan is to have a python based rss aggregator customized to present information in some really cool ways like depending on my usage, tell me which news i like the most and present those and so on. If they are really nice info, I should be able to send it to my news group > uit_tvm, by just a click of a button. I will keep you guys updated on the status of the project.

As per current requirements, the project has 2 parts
1. Python parser - which fetches rss feeds from sites
2. Email the feeds to uit_tvm - either I need to run my own email server(which is really cool ) or I need to access GMail/Yahoomail using python API provided by yahoo.

So the following links to point to the above mentioned ideas.

Email APIs
Send email in python
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136280.html

Accessing your Gmail inbox with Pythonhttp://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2004/06/18/1751
libgmail — Python binding

SendYmail
http://sendymail.sourceforge.net/

About BBauth required for yahoo mail APIhttp://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/web/LondonHackdayBbauthAndYahooMail

for Google's Gmail service
http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/

Running your own server
Apache emal serverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_James Comparison of mail servershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers

Misc
PyDigg - A Python Toolkit for the Digg API
http://neothoughts.com/2007/04/30/pydigg-a-python-toolkit-for-the-digg-api/







Accessing Yahoo Mail withtout POP
http://bytes.com/forum/thread521242.html

Yahoo! Mail Web Service Code Samples
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/code/

Labels: hack, hobbies, project, python, rss

Its been some days, since my mom wanted to write about one of her favorite pass times: Gardening.

She told this to me, and I just said Okay. Some days later, I found her meticulously(since she was new to blogging) going though the cool blogger help, page by page. This really did catch my attention and I asked her what she was up to. She told me she wanted to create a blog, to blog about gardening and was trying to learn about it.

I loved her enthusiasm, in learning new things, and sat with her. She created the blog and added a new post. Since she had selected one of the templates provided by blogger, it kind of looked dull, atleast not at all apt for a gardening blog, I thought, and I told her, of the same. She too liked the idea, and so I decided to chip in, to redesign her blog design.

So as mentioned in one of my previous posts(Changing blogger template) I started with freecsstemplates.org. Got a nice template, Nature's charm , hacked it a little bit to suit her needs and uploaded it to blogger.

But here comes the problem.


The navbar problem



So I decided to remove the navbar. After a bit of research(Googling around), I found that removing navbar DOES NOT violate (citation needed) TOS with Google.

You can hide the navbar, by inserting this code in the style sheet part(css part) of your page

#navbar-iframe {height:0px; display:none;}


Even though you remove the navbar, the content seems to be around 50 pixel, shifted downwards.

So in the template, I added the following code inside the body { }


This effectively shifts the contents upwards. Since the problem was solved, I decided to add the navbar back again - as a small token of thanks to Google.

So everything is cool, and my mother has a really cool, sleek blog which I am proud to announce to you.

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So guys do check out this cool new blog, and I wish my mother all the best for this new endeavor :)

Labels: blog, blogger, gardening, hack, hobbies

I had been experiencing this problem for the past few days, namely

Whenever i close firefox, with multiple tabs open, it doesnt show the usual "tabs are open, do you want to close" confirm dialog box. This really intrigued me and today I found the soultion.
Just open firefox, in the address bar type "about:config"(without quotes)

then in the filter text box, type
browser.tabs.warnonclose

click on the entry named "browser.tabs.warnOnClose
If it is set to false, double click it to make it true

After this, whenever i closed by firefox session with multiple tabs opened, firefox issues the confirm dialog

Cool

(note: For all those hackers out there, about:config, is a place to really check out all the cool featues hidden in firefox, but be sure to backup before proceeding
that is, if you are in windows, copy the file prefs.js located at - C\documents and setting\<user Name>\Application data/mozilla/firefox/profiles)

Labels: firefox, hack, tips