A Feed Reader for Eidle

One of the things I have on my ToDo list for quite a while is integrating feed reading into one of my little fun projects, the Eidle screensaver framework. As I stumbled on Google's feed API yesterday I realized how easy that would be. I saved the sample they provide here to my hard disk, fiddled around with the css styling to make it look more appealing for a screen saver, and set eidle's browser screen properties to use it.
I am quite happy with the outcome, with just an hour of work. In general, with integrating a browser into eidle the possibilities are manyfold, the sky being the limit. Currently, you can only have one browser screen in eidle, but I think of a less static use of the eidle screens for a while already. So stay tuned for news! In the meantime check out eidle and build your own browser based screens. I'm looking forward to hearing about your ideas.

P.S. You can even let Google generate the code for you.

Monkey bidden

Lately I have installed GreaseMonkey and GreaseFire. This really lubes up Firefox. Lot's of cool scripts that enhance many popular sites. But the real fun started when I decided to build a script myself.
Here is the problem it solves: I often visit a page to find out about upcoming events. If something is interesting I add an entry to my Google calendar. All the data I need for this entry is there on the event info page. So lots of copy/paste here. My script now adds a button next to each event and when I click it generates the calender entry for me in a new tab. All I have to do then is press another button (save) and close the tab. Very handy, and I have a lot of events in my calender now. ;-)