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A History of RSS – 16 March 2010

The script for ITauthor Podcast #33. Recounting the precursors, birth, developelopment and uses of RSS. From Apple's Advanced Technology Group, in 1995, through the rise and fall of Netscape, to the growth of podcasting from 2004 onwards.

Tech writing blogs – 8 March 2009

A list of my favourite technical writing blogs, sorted roughly into read-most-often order, with a few details about each.

Recent posts from my favourite technical writing bloggers – 22 March 2009

A taster of the most recent post on each of the blogs listed in my tech writing blogs list.

Technical writing podcast mashup – 24 February 2009

A feed of feeds containing recent shows from various podcasts that may be of interest to technical writers.

Preventing BBC iPlayer running all the time – 26 November 2008

The BBC iPlayer is a great bit of technology, but it's also a peer-to-peer file sharing client and sometimes you don't want lots of data being uploaded from your computer when you're trying to use that bandwidth for something else.

This article tells you how to take control of the iPlayer's KService Windows service and the iPlayer program itself: khost.exe.

Problems with Flare 2.0 – 4 January 2007

Not a review of Flare 2.0, just a list of some of the problems and irritations with what was, at the time of writing, a fairly new piece of software. Despite the negative nature of this list my overwhelming view of Flare is positive.