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From the blog of former coworker, exceptional writer, and all-around helluva guy Jeff Green: this truly awesome news item from 1981 about newspapers making their content available “via home computer.” I won’t spoil it by attempting to recount it here; head over to his site and check it out for yourself. It’s well worth it.
Here’s the funny thing. 1981 was a long time ago, sure. Pushing 30 years ago now. But in the realm of PC technology, how different was it, really, from 1991? Continue reading “Change We Can Believe In”
I’m pretty sure I’ve tried every single RSS reader for the iPhone at this point.
When I first got my phone, I was fairly new to this whole blog-aggregation thing. I’d dabbled a bit but hadn’t come to rely on it. But with Mobile Safari being slower (and more squintastic) than I’d like, I knew I’d need to get on the RSS train, and fast.
I looked for suggestions. I’d heard so many negative things about the free NetNewsWire that I skipped right over that one. A friend had recommended the not-free Feeds, but when I saw the awful green color I knew he must have meant Web Feeds, which also shows up on your phone as just “Feeds.” So I picked that one up and set up my feeds.
Let me be clear: Web Feeds is a very nice program. Slick and fast and constantly improving. But it was almost too good — that is to say, I started using RSS more and more for work purposes, to catch up quickly on important topics for the various columns and news items I’d been writing. And here’s the problem: Web Feeds didn’t have a way of sharing articles. At all. Which made it a little tough to track down the important things I’d found while away from my desk.*
So I tried out NetNewsWire, which syncs with Newsgator online and thereby allowed me to tag articles for later review. I used that for a couple weeks, before I realized that some blogs I read regularly had disappeared, as though they weren’t being updated…even though I knew they put up something like 40 posts a day. So that went right out.
Right around that time a bunch of readers popped up in the App Store that purported to sync with Google Reader. So I tried them. I tried them all. The verdict? Continue reading “Speaking of RSS Readers”
“Hey, this blog post from the White House crashed my RSS reader!”
Oh look, Mac|Life put up the how-to I did about using VNC to operate a Mac remotely. Mac users may find this useful, especially those of you using Macs as media centers.