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Grocist gets a Style Upgrade

Monday, March 5th, 2007


Check out the new look for Grocist. Here are some screen shots to look at, or just head over there and start using it www.grocist.com.
The main adding an item page:

The bottom on my list, showing the club card feature:

Here’s where you can add and manage club cards:

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RSS Feeds for Grocist

Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

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Grocist (My free barcode-driven grocery list application) now has RSS feeds. Here’s an example how it looks in Google Reader:

Neat, huh? As you can see in the screenshot, it also has the handy search links, so if you’re say bored, reading your RSS feeds, you can go ahead and search the internet for […]

Automatically Posting Del.icio.us Links to Your WordPress Blog

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I made a quick Python script to do this for me. Here’s an example of what it makes.
Sure there are plenty of scripts and plugins out there that do just this:
http://nozell.com/blog/2005/01/30/updated-yet-another-daily-delicious-hack/
http://heisel.org/projects
http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=499
http://autoblogger.sourceforge.net/
But I had to make my own because I wanted these exact features:

Only make a blog post after N new Del.icio.us links have accumulated.
Generate […]

Automatically Adding Birthdays to Google Calendar

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Have you ever missed 3 important birthdays in a period of 3 weeks? Well I just did and this experience inspired me to create a program to read birthdays out of my Gmail contact’s notes and add them into Google calendar 10 years going forward. I’ll never forget a birthday again!
Here’s how it […]

Grocist Update: We Now Have Search for Every Item, Folks!

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

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Today I added search links to Grocist (My free barcode-driven grocery list application).
You can now search for any and every product on your grocery list on key shopping sites just by clicking the links.

Below is a snippet from my list that you can interact with. Try clicking some of the shop links and see […]