Sweetcron “The Automated Lifestream Blog Software”, developed by “Web Producer” Yongfook (yongfook.com), is an extremely flexible and easy to use lifestreaming/blog platform that I started tinkering with after reading an article put together by Chris Coyier of css-tricks.com.
I have been toying with different ideas on how to incorporate some sort of a lifestream or “quick glimpse” of all my web doings for quite some time so when I ran across Chris’s article I had to at least give it a shot and see what it was capable of. I downloaded the program, ran a quick install through my MAMP set up and was good to go in about 10 mins. Then I went about adding a few feeds from my various social gatherings and walla I had a fully functional lifestream in under 20mins. Check it out.
Then I went ahead and decided to try my hand at a quick customization of the included Sandbox theme and a brief look at the stylesheet told me it would be a pretty easy task. Another 10mins or so and I crafted a quick and simple adaptation that might fit rather well with my soon to be released redesign for Papertree.
You can take a look at a few screenshots here on Flickr (sorry that’s where all of the images are going until I get this redesign fully sorted out).
With the coming redesign I will be sticking with WordPress for obvious reasons but I am definitely looking at the possibility of adding Sweetcron to the mix, possibly as an alternative page for quick viewing… perhaps. Either way I had a lot of fun working with the platform thus far it has a lot of promise. Come on someone give me the chance to put one together for ya… please!?
[...] For awhile now I have been talking about ways that I might be able to keep a running update of my busy life when the workload outweighs the free time. I realize that there are a number of people whom have incorporated this directly into WP but when I stumpled upon the new lifestreaming platform Sweetcron I decided it was time to branch out and give something new a try. For my brief review of the Sweetcron Platform you can check this post. [...]