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anthonyjhicks.com - labs

dumping ground for geek projects and content not part of the official anthonyjhicks.com
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Current apps

More toys really - nothing significant or ground breaking at the moment.

Retired apps

No longer active:

  • Aussie Blogs Update Tracker - monitored a database of Australian blogs for updates, also connected to an updated blog and downloaded last post via RSS.
  • Aussie Blogs FinderBot - spidered various blog directories for new Australian based blogs.
  • Aussie Blogs ChangesBot - checked update RSS feeds of popular ping services for updated Australian blogs (blogger.com, weblogs.com etc.)
  • Aussie Blogs CheckerBot - checked non-pinging Australia blogs for updates using diff and date checks.
  • Aussie Blogs Topic Tracker - identified topics and trends in posts found on Australian blogs, similar to Technorati - while it worked in theory, I couldn't throw enough server resources at this to keep it running at a usable speed.
  • Aussie Blogs Popularity Index - no longer updated.
  • Aussie Blogs Webring - the first comprehensive listing of Australian weblogs (2000).
  • forwardslash.net - a very early attempt circa 1999 at a customisable portal like Netvibes.
  • Bluetooth Presence Detection and Asterisk - linked to Asterisk PBX, email and various other services. For example, on arriving home the house server detected my phone, cancelled call diversions in Asterisk, and announced via voice synthesis the number of unread emails and how long I'd been out of the house for.
  • anthonyjhicks.com weblog - advanced Domino weblog for it's time, full commenting, TrackBack, related posts, mobile/email/text/voice posting, Web, Avantgo and WAP reading, full-text search, rich-media, categories, RSS, automated posting (eg. Facebook status) and loads more (2000).
  • anthonyjhicks.com discuss - commenting system written from scratch, including CAPTCHA and TrackBack.
  • anthonyjhicks.com pictures - picture library system, used until moving to Flickr for storage. Also created a bulk uploading program with automated Photoshop resizing, USM and thumb generation. Added RSS feeds in 2002.
  • anthonyjhicks.com media - video library system, used until moving to Vimeo and YouTube. Added RSS feeds in 2002.
  • anthonyjhicks.com Pilot's Logbook - web database tracking aircraft flown, location, activity and hours (2000).
  • anthonyjhicks.com Audio, Video and SMS blogging interfaces - (2003).
  • anthonyjhicks.com Search Keyword Referrer Personalisation - (aka Related Posts) some cool features including showing picture and video thumbnails if the related item was media (2002).
  • anthonyjhicks.com WAP (Mobile) version - (1999).
  • anthonyjhicks.com currently - read a table of default tasks by day and hour, and a list of shared calendar entries, displaying my most likely activity or scheduled activity on the blog. Linked to Google Maps and Outlook via a custom Win32 app.
  • anthonyjhicks.com Procrastometer - measures personal effectiveness over a 7 day period based on an ideal activity model.
  • anthonyjhicks.com - Facebook Updater
  • Last GPS Location - full screen with poly line tracks

Commercial projects

Not an exhaustive list, only lists a few projects of note:

  • To be updated

Sites & Domains

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