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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Radio UserLand can be extended using applications called Tools. These are collections of scripts and data which can perform many different functions. The Tool Lists and Reviews section of the Radio UserLand Resource Directory contains over 30 tools and directories of tools to help you do even more with Radio UserLand:

DirectoryTool by Andy Sylvester - creates a nested set of directories from an OPML file similar to Yahoo or the Open Directory Project.

Asset Manager by David Davies - Expanded support in Radio UserLand for handling pictures, creating a photo gallery, or mobile posting to your weblog

MyPictures Tool - UserLand tool that copies images to your weblog when you drop them in a folder or directory

RadioConversant - Post to a Conversant-based website using Radio UserLand

Stapler by Mark Paschal - creates syndication feeds from web sites and other content

Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool - UserLand tool that allows you to flow weblog posts entered in Radio to a Manila or Blogger web site

RadioExpress by Mike Krus - Select text from a web page and post it easily to your Radio UserLand weblog (like Manila Express)

UserLand-developed tools directory (pre-Radio 8) (link still works, but maybe switch to current tools page)

UserLand page describing tools and how to create a tool

Community Tools Directory - A directory of tools developed by the Radio UserLand user community maintained by Jeremy Bowers

Advanced Referer Tracking by Garth Kidd

Throat voice weblogging tool (requires Python and other apps to work)

Print Outline Tool - Easy rendering of OPML files and scripts

ToDo tool by Carlos Granier - Displays a "to do" list on your Desktop Website Home Page

Friends tool by Mark Paschal publishes select feeds scraped for your Radio News Aggregator to a "Friends" page, similar to LiveJournal users'.

myRadio tool by Mikel Maron - group and view your news subscriptions by Category, the same categories used by your weblog

Python Tool by David Brown - allows Radio UserLand to be used as a Python IDE. Radio's integrated outliner turns out to be a wonderful tool for Python editting, and the Tool provides an efficient way to write, debug, and deploy Python code.

Transport Layer Security tool - provides a mechanism for accessing secure websites from Frontier and Radio

Real-time data receiver demonstration by Dann Sheridan (requires Internet Explorer and Radio)

Weblogs Watcher tool by Simon Fell - allows you to subscribe to updates from weblogs.com and see the updates on your desktop web site

rssDistiller tool by EVectors - allows you to extract RSS feeds from most regular web pages

ThemeTool by EVectors - converts Radio themes to plain html pages and let you edit them using any HTML editor, then converts them back to Radio compatible themes

Formz tool from Macrobyte Resources - a set of UserTalk scripts for creating, managing, and rendering HTML forms (link won't work right now)

Kit by Mark Paschal - a suite of "page tools" for Radio UserLand 8, which includes Weblog search, an improved News Aggregator page, and a Web QuickScript.

Multiple Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool by Steve Hooker - an update to the UserLand tool that mirrors categories to sites

Patch Tool by Eric Soroos - a developer tool that provides patch and diff services for Usertalk scripts in Frontier and Radio Userland

Root Updates Tool by Andy Fragen - a tool that displays the current days' Radio UserLand root updates. It can be configured to log the data to a guest database or to an outline.

AttSearchEngine by Macrobyte Resources - a search engine tool that indexes text and attributes

DocServer2man by Emmanuel Décarie - lets Mac OS X users convert the Docserver database into man pages accessible from the Terminal window.

Active Renderer from Marc Barrot - publish OPML outlines using Radio UserLand

Edit This Page by Steve Hooker - A tool to add an Edit this Page like functionality to your live Radio weblog

backlogAllRSS by Steve Hooker - Convert all Radio posts into one RSS file

Export Weblog by Andy Fragen - Export posts from your weblogData.root file into individual text files

Install CodeFreshener by Andy Fragen - Insert a customized version of Dave Winer's codeFreshener scripts into your tool

Offline Toggle by Andy Fragen - Sends out call to tcp.myAddress to test for a network connection.

Root Updates Report by Andy Fragen - Root Updates Report will read the current days updates from logs in a guest database (GDB) or all root updates from the outline

Diaries by Steve Hooker - Add a javascripted calendar to your template

Master Ping by Patrick Ritchie - Adds support of additional ping services to Radio UserLand

googlejuice by Steve Hooker - A tool to make your blog posts achieve higher Google Juice

xManilaBloggerBridge by Steve Hooker - A tool to mirror any post to any other blog, be that Manila, Blogger or any other bloggerAPI friendly service

bitTorrentIntegration by Andrew Grumet - Automate download of BitTorrent enclosures

myWeblogOutliner by Andrew Grumet/Dave Winer - publishing from Radio to Moveable Type

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