In a single handed attempt to pump some life into sweetcron /
lifepress, I post here a series of plugins I have recently made for my
own sweetcron. Some of these needed to be updated due to API changes
etc. Some are completely new:

Foursquare
Last.FM
YouTube
Twitter
BrightKite
Flickr
Delicious

Download them here:  http://ifile.it/k3v2yz6/plugins.zip

• Lifepress is written in the MVC pattern (thanks to CI) but the
  separation is a bit weak
• The install process is a bit funny if you don’t have
  your .htaccess set up
• Lifepress only works on MySQL even though CI works almost
  everywhere

It seems to just suck in the titles and links though, rather than the whole content but that may be a setting somewhere.

I had an installation of lifestream for WordPress at http://theatrebreaks.tbil.co.uk/ but it seemed to have stopped working back in March. I upgraded the WordPress and plugins installation, reset the settings for Lifestream and now it seems to be back working again.

All I have it do really, is to produce a weekly summary with a list of links to all the sites in that theatre niche that have been updated.

Theatre Breaks Blogs and Feeds - by Lifestream

yongfook on sweetcron

The software didn’t evolve though, and Yongfook moved on to other projects, abandoning sweetcron to anybody who would be willing to take over.

* http://yongfook.com/why-posterous-instead-of-sweetcron

* Reclaim your lifestream feeds with SweetCron software

Sweetcron is an open source lifestreaming blog software created by Jon “Yongfook” Cockle based on the CodeIgniter framework. It was originally released on 3 September 2008 and the latest version following on 22 September. Sweetcron is similar to other web applications such as Tumblr and Friendfeed, but users are able to host their own lifestream on their own server and customize it in any way they want with the Sweetcron API.

Users can add RSS feeds from multiple social networks and sites, such as Twitter, LastFM, Flickr and many more.

Carlos Killpack then created a new googe code site page called Lifepress and forked Sweetcron over to there. Shortly afterwards the new project was again abandoned in turn by Carlos and Carsten took over.

Carsten wrote:

Lifepress is basically the last official version of Sweetcron copied
over to have full control over it. Carlos started it because Sweetcron
was abandoned by the original developer. Now Lifepress is abandoned by
Carlos and there is only me left as a kind of official developer.

But I hope everyone interested in Lifepress and his own installation
will contribute parts of his modifications and extensions back to the
project. If you want to give back, visit the homepage of Lifepress at
http://code.google.com/p/lifepress/ and go to the Issue Tracker first:

http://code.google.com/p/lifepress/issues/list

Q. Will the current theme I have for sweetcron work with lifepress?

Without knowing anything about any modifications you may have made which could complicate matters, the answer is simply YES

Lifepress is basically a copy of the last official version of Sweetcron.

But if you modified core files in the Sweetcron installation, you should make sure that you don’t miss a single
spot. Use a diff tool or something that can compare directories and step over every file when you copy the new files over.

If you have a heavily modified installation the upgrade can get very complicated.

Otherwise,  it’s just like an “installation” again. Make sure you don’t overwrite your modified files and your configuration files like
config.php and database.php.

If you copy the new files over the old files you should have Lifepress upgraded. There isn’t a special update routine and no database
modification that needs to be done. But, it goes without saying really, always make a full backup first of your sweetcron installation before upgrading your Lifepress, so you can always retore the old Sweetcron again if anything goes wrong, and try again with Lifepress.