Farecompare Widget / Bugfixes

I think I’m going to create a new dashboard widget for Farecompare. RSS feeds are nice an all but, I want growl alerts and more customization. But in the meantime, I’ve done a little patching to the old Farecompare widget.


The first one is a simple fix for the improper resizing when you have a long list of destinations.


Before:


After:



I’m distributing it as a diff patch file, because I am still waiting on farecompare.com to grant my request to open the source of the widget.

http://www.ksphotography.us/correctsizing-patch-outtatown.js.patch

To run the patch, open a command line windows and cd into wherever you downloaded the file to then issue the follow patch command.

patch ~/Library/Widgets/FareCompare.wdgt/scripts/outtatown.js correctsizing-patch-outtatown.js.patch

It’s all on one line, so if it gets broken up, you’ll have to mash it back together yourself.

Fix for claiming your myspace blog on Technorati

Took me a while but I finally got my blog on Myspace claimed on Technorati for tracking and listing. I followed the instructions (several times in fact) and released the spiders to no avail. After some further tinkering and a discussion on the message board with Technorati admin I got a solution. Well it’s more of a work around, but it gets the job done until they update the spiders.

In the meantime, in order to claim your blog try this workaround. In the post claim steps, where you see
<a href="http://technorati.com/claim/CLAIMCODE" rel="me"> Technorati Profile</a>
where CLAIMCODE is a series of letters and numbers, instead of using the link, post the below text in your post and then continue on with the blog claim.

Technorati Profile: CLAIMCODE

I know this may look ugly, but after we are able to complete the claim, you can remove the text.

Since Myspace moved to using the msplinks.com anti-phishing url mangling it messed up Technorati's spiders.

New blog

While I do have a myspace, it really is more my personal stuff there. So I’ve started a more, “professional” blog presence here. While my myspace and twitter accounts will continue to host the more mundane moments of my personal life, this is the place for my photography related entries along with any other matters that may or may not appeal to a (slightly?) wider audience.