Safe from the Losing Fight

I’m looking for beta testers for my RSS news reader. Right now the only client is a web app (mobile and retina ready) so that’s what you would be testing. If you are interested, email me: andy at fortunatebear dot com.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve acquired Pandora from Positive Spin Media, and renamed it Skyscraper in order to reduce confusion with the music service. Skyscraper is a web scraper specializing in finding and downloading images. It can take advantage of Google Image Search to do keyword searches or simply scrape images (or other kinds of files) from a URL that you give to it. It automatically downloads the images into folders and allows you to perform some simple management. It also has a built-in slide show.

Skyscraper has a free limited trial, so there’s no reason not to give it a try. Skyscraper is free for existing Pandora customers, otherwise $29.99 for new customers.

You can read more about the acquisition in the press release.

I have footnotes working in Pagesmith and polished enough that I can show it to other people. I need some help find bugs in the edge cases, so if you’d like to give footnotes a spin before everyone else, shoot me an email: andy at fortunatebear.