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Gregarius – Open Source web-based feed reader

amrlima — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:36:31 +0000

For several years I’ve been using Liferea to read my web feeds and it has always done a good job, although it can be a bit slow if you have lots of feeds. Since I have 2 computers it’s always a pain to keep the feeds in sync. For this reason I’ve been considering moving to a web app like Google Reader or Bloglines. But then I thought “I’m leaving a free (as in freedom) application to use a closed source one, is it really necessary?” I using some non-free software but it’s mostly hardware drivers and codecs (except for gmail), but I really don’t fell good leaving a free app in favor of a non-free one.

So I decided to search if there was any service which used a open source tool to create a feed reader service. I did not find any, but I found Gregarious a open source reader which you can install in a webserver. I was a little reluctant to host one more thing, but I gave it a go. It’s a very small app, so the space it takes in web host is very small and it’s very easy to install: You just need to create a MySQL database and go to the Gregarious directory:

http://yourdomain/gregarious/install.php

After that just follow the instructions and it’s all set.

You can import OPML files from any feed reader, tt has a nice and clean “ajaxy” interface and it’s pretty fast.

Your feeds can be viewed by anyone if they get to the reader’s directory but you can protect the directory using .htacess, which is what I did.

Here’s the screenshot.

Free Public Wifi

amrlima — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:12:42 +0000

Hoje descobri uma rede na minha vizinhança com este nome: Free Public Wifi.

Não tenho conhecimento que alguma entidade tenha montado uma rede wifi gratuita aqui na vizinhança. Isso seria óptimo.

Será alguma alma caridosa que o fez? Se o fez algo ainda não está a 100% já que apesar de detectar a rede não consigo ligar-me a ela, não adquire um ip. Mas como o network-manager normalmente dá-me dores de cabeça para gerir a minha ligação, ainda hei-de investigar o assunto um pouco mais.

My first wordpress installation!

amrlima — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:25:04 +0000

After being on wordpress.com for some months and a short passage in blogger, I decided to host my weblog.

It’s a free host but it works with wordpress very well. Her’s the link.

You have mySQL data-base and php. Also 250 MB storage an 100GB data transfer. It’s not bad for a free host! They install you wordpress 2.2, but you can easily do your own instalation. You can as well set up many other kind of sites which they pre-install for you like postnuke. You can manage all in cpanel

My domain, as you can see, is not payed. But I’m thinking in buying a cheap domain soon.

I’ll update soon my experience of managing a wordpress weblog!