Linked List: June 2, 2005

Thursday, 2 June 2005

Google Sitemaps 

New feature from Google. “Beta”, of course.

By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

Basically, the two steps to participating in Google Sitemaps are:

  1. Generate a Sitemap in the correct format using Sitemap Generator.
  2. Update your Sitemap when you make changes to your site.
Movable Type 3.17 

Minor update recommended only for those affected by the fixed bugs.

Nuevos 0.3 

Public beta of Jesper Lindholm’s fork of Brent Simmons’s open-source Huevos, which hasn’t been revised in a few years. It’s a small window from which you can fire off Internet searches; you can configure it to send a query to pretty much any search engine. Bonus points for the clever name.

On the Visual Appearance of Windows That Are ‘Main’ but Not ‘Key’ 

Cocoa windows that are “main” but not “key” get a subtly different visual appearance than normal background windows. I think it’s a bug that this only happens for Cocoa apps.