7th February, 2004

Tin
Filed under: Technology, — bsag @ 04:02 PM

I’ve never had much interest in Usenet-type newsgroups, but when I found that perl.org had some great beginners’ Perl lists (perl.beginners, perl.beginners.cgi, and perl.macosx1), I wanted to find a good newsreader. I tried Thoth, MT-Newswatcher and the beta of Unison, but all the GUI-ness seemed a bit over the top for reading text-based news (I’m not interested in downloading binaries over Usenet). I also wanted something cheap or free, as I’m saving my money to get a licence for Omniweb 5 when it comes out of beta.

Then I found tin—a command line newsreader. There don’t seem to be any binaries, so I compiled from source (you need the Developer Tools on one of the Jaguar/Panther install CDs for that). Amazingly, all went well, and I’m really impressed by tin. It’s really easy to set up multiple NNTP servers and groups to read, and navigation using the keyboard is quick and easy. There’s even a nice coloured mode, where different parts of quoted messages, headers and so on get coloured to make the display clearer. Marking, saving and filtering articles is also very straightforward.

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CSS tools
Filed under: Technology, — bsag @ 04:02 PM

If I’d had this CSS debugging bookmarklet when I was designing this site, I might have ended up with a few less bruises after banging my head on the table in frustration. It outlines each div and labels it with a colour and a label to indicate its class or id. It’s really handy, and would also be a useful learning tool when examining other people’s sites—in conjunction with the source—to see how they achieve their look.

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