Feeding your life with RSS
January 24th, 2007
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There is no place like blog
January 4th, 2007
Don’t race with counters
November 4th, 2006
Due to my absence for 5 days, while I was working on the assignments and labs, the only thing I had time was Google Reader . Keeping myself without any news is equal to death, I mean, everyone of us needs some news.
I was partially updating my news stream , and what I liked the most was news counter of all unread posts - it’s always “100+”. Back in a days of Bloglines usage, every time I was opening its RSS reader, the numbers like “596 updates”, were killing any will of reading this bunch of news - I’d few hours for doing it. So the fact of reading the news used to become the race with the counter, how fast I will reach “0 updates” then carefully read everything had been posted.
While you use Google Reader - you have 100+ news, so you don’t pay attention, how many updates exactly you have, and you concentrate on reading more then on overtaking the plus-sign.
What kind of tiny things implemented in Google Reader do you like the most?
It’s all about feeds!
October 1st, 2006
In 99% of meeting IT-guys outside of the work, chatting in the pub Friday evening, it’s impossible to avoid IT topics or any tech news. Leonid adviced me to check out latest news about Google Reader, which provides better feed maintenance then Bloglines.
As it appeared, and lately all blog info sources and IT-blogs were mentioning (damn great results!), - Google Reader has finally been upgraded.
The guys from Google finally made a good friendly intuitive interface. Feed navigation is realized better then in Bloglines aggregator, great tool for feed search, keywords, more flexible tag editing.
You can easily share your items of the “news stream” with other users, because Google Reader also gives an ability of distributing the “shared items”. E-mailing, sharing (you create your own news stream, including its feed link), changing tags, - plus Google Reader allows you to read previous entities, automatically uploading them when you read.
Don’t try Google Reader! Once you do it, you won’t go back to your Bloglines feed aggregator!
Rss via browsers of separate software
August 19th, 2006
Since I’ve started blogging in Wordpress platform, I faced the fact of searching some kind of RSS software or any service which can handle the feeds, would be flexible, friendly and easy-to-use.
At the beginning I started to use Awasu Aggregator, which was handling the required features and also has a big number of plug-ins to use. The only reason of switching from it was - overloading of the interface. Some people may say that it’s good, but for a small program to have the interface more complicate then 3DS Max, which has tons of modifiers, filters, it’s unusable!
So I start using RssBandIt, which corresponds to all the requirements: integrated browser, hierarchical menu with the abilities of proper feed management, login/pass savings. The only disadvantage was the size of memory taken - it was using the same size as Firefox, and it was quite inconviniently of keeping it in the tray most of the time, when you are working with the programs like: 3ds max, Adobe Premiere.
Finally, I ended up with Bloglines utilization, when I had to format the PC and all the feeds where lost. The on-line feed platform makes the surfing easier, because the web browsers are still more efficient and usable in case of reading/commenting the posts in the feeds, and it doesn’t use as many resources as the utilization of Rss software+ web browser, you don’t have to switch between them.