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“IC-Switch has Flipped to 1.4”

From: Seth Dillingham In Response To: Top of Thread.  
Date Posted: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 9:59:37 AM Replies: 1
   
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M. Philippe Martin has released IC-Switch 1.4.

IC-Switch is a menubar app that lets you choose which application should handle a given protocol, such as http, ftp, or mailto. New in 1.4 is support for the feed protocol.

The feed protocol was originally designed for farms. Cattle, for example, just have to click a button to access a feed: url on the farmer's server, which causes grain to be dropped in the trough.

In a bizarre misuse of this important technology, the feed protocol can also be used to request an RSS or Atom file, to "feed your brain."


Discussion Thread:
  • RE: IC-Switch has Flipped to 1.4 (by Robb Beal at 12/23/2003)

    As I said in a recent comment at Inessential, these more conceptual url schemes suggest that app developers

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