Adding proper support for Exif, IPTC & XMP data to the gallery application that powers my Eyeballism site proved a lot more tricky than could be considered healthy by any stretch of the imagination. We quickly found ourselves trying to decipher the image meta tag soup mess we’re in.

Some of the issues we encountered:

• data may or may not be present in Exif headers
• data may be present at different locations
• data may be present in different formats
• data may be present in different formats at different locations with different values

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Newsgator has just made a few of its products available for free:

• FeedDemon
  
• NetNewsWire
• NewsGator Online

This might be one of the only ways to easily and continously synchronise feeds between a Mac and a Windows machine. I certainly shall be looking into this option (despite the fact that it would mean I’d no longer use the excellent Vienna RSS reader for the Mac).

I have always subscribed to the notion that domain squatters are not doing the industry a favour. And while this belief still holds, I’m starting to look at the issue from a different angle: many decent domain names remain available to lucky upstarts (it is becoming much harder to come up with decent domain names).
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Greenpeace published its latest guide on toxicity of hi-tech companies last month. The guide ranks top electronic manufacturers according to their policies on toxic chemicals and recycling. Unfortunately progress towards a greener hi-tech industry seems slow.