NYC Property Tax Rebate

by jpreardon on September 30, 2004

Mayor Bloomberg is encouraging city homeowners to apply for the $400 property tax rebate. The text in the press release is slightly confusing: Most owners of 1-, 2- and 3-family homes, condominiums and cooperatives who live in their homes are (…)

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Bloglines API

by jpreardon on September 28, 2004

Today, Bloglines announced the availability of a webservices API: The Bloglines Web Services (BWS) let software developers access Bloglines subscription and feed data directly from computer programs. Bloglines uses a RESTful API consisting of a set of URLs, which return (…)

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AdiumX IM Client

by jpreardon on September 27, 2004

I’ve been an instant messaging fan for years, but I quickly grew tired of having three different clients open in order to connect to everyone. At work I, and others, have been using Trillian and Trillian Pro for some time (…)

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iSubway Update

by jpreardon on September 24, 2004

It has been a busy week at work which equates to a slow blogging week. An updated version of iSubway [iSubway.zip] is available though. Have a great weekend! P.S. Good luck to everyone participating in CM tonight, watch out for (…)

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iSubway

by jpreardon on September 17, 2004

The latest MTA Subway Service Advisories (iSubway.zip) are available on iSubway. I’ve spent the last fifteen minutes or so trying to figure out why Firefox insisted on “downloading” last week’s information from this site even though it did not exist (…)

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WTC Mural Succumbs to Paint

by jpreardon on September 15, 2004

Curbed reports that the East Village WTC Mural has been painted over. This has been in the works for some time, they must have been waiting until after the anniversary to cover it. Now we can all look forward to (…)

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ArtBots

by jpreardon on September 15, 2004

The Third Annual ArtBots Show is in New York this weekend! The Third Annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show will take place on September 17, 18, & 19 from noon to 6:00pm at The Mink Building on 126th Street & (…)

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Change of Scenery

by jpreardon on September 14, 2004

The Virtual Window Project is perfect for all those city apartments with brick wall views. Just cover up the existing window glass with LCD panels, hook them up to a PC, and load up whatever view suits you. via slashdot

RSS in Firefox

by jpreardon on September 14, 2004

The Firefox preview release includes Live Bookmarks. This new feature allows one to easily subscribe to an RSS feed. If the site currently being browsed has an RSS feed and supports auto discovery, a familiar orange and white RSS button (…)

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iSubway

by jpreardon on September 12, 2004

Inspired by piPod, I created iSubway, an iPod friendly listing of MTA Subway Service Advisories. It is very basic, but functional, allowing one to carry the full list of subway service advisories with them. Service advisory updates will be posted (…)

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