April 18, 2004
My apologies to those of you who were deluged tonight with a lot of updated old posts on your RSS reader. Predictably, in order to get everything validating as XHTML, I ended up having to clean up a number of old posts.
Hopefully the vast majority of that is behind us now.
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Best PDA-enabled web sites?One thing about the Treo 650 is I find I actually use the web browser, which is something I’ve seldom ever done on Wi-Fi PDAs, WAP phones, etc. In fact, I use it enough that I’m beginning to develop a collection of “favorite” PDA-enabled sites. (Yes, making a PDA-enabled view of this site is on my to-do list somewhere too...) Here’s my current list—please share your own favorites! In no particular order: http://mobile.answers.com/ - Useful for looking up all sorts of strange things. http://pda.en.wapedia.org/ - Wikipedia for PDAs http://www.google.com/xhtml - Google Mobile Search http://www.accuweather.com/pda/pda_5dy.asp?act=L - Accuweather Mobile http://mobile.wunderground.com/ - Weather Underground Mobile http://www.google.com/xhtml?site=local - Google Mobile Local (beta) What’s on your PDA? ...
Once more, with feeling…With a new version of Matt Berther’s MovablePoster plugin, and some advice from Greg Reinacker, (Mr. NewsGator himself), I’m giving posting from Outlook another try... I’ll still have to go back in and add categories and keywords to make other stuff work like I want, but this will be handy for spur-of-the moment inspirations. It’ll be fun to watch this product as it continues to mature; there’s a lot of discussion already on the NewsGator forums about future plans for this feature. (Edit: Still a bit of strange markup, but a bit better.. Also forgot to mention the addition of the WMP Blogging plugin support in the new MovablePoster, giving the signature line below) Currently listening to A3/Bullet Proof from...
Better RSS Reader NeededLiving on the bleeding edge of technology is a pain in the ass some days. I waste a lot of time with use RSS readers heavily -- they let me stay on top of things quickly, and allow me to accumulate detailed information on topics that I can drill down into when the need arises and time allows. Unfortunately, I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to just keep one of them working. Back in the dark days, when I was living in Windows, FeedDemon was my go-to RSS reader. When I started working cross-platform, I started using Bloglines -- the footprint on any given machine was minimal, my "last reads" were updated everywhere, and it worked...
Kicking Bloglines to the CurbAh Bloglines... I remember when we were both young (was it only spring of last year?), and I was so fond of you... You were new, you were fresh -- you did things for me that no other feed reader did. For you, I swore off my favorite local feed reader applications. I learned to appreciate frames and funky javascript all over again. I sang your praises to my friends -- hell, to anyone who'd listen. Sorry to say, though -- I'm done with you. Why? Because you've been seeing too many other people. You've been peddling your services all over town, and as a result, you just don't seem to have enough left for me. I sat and watched...
Google Reader Wish ListSpeaking of Google Reader, 901 AM (or I guess that's 90.1 AM) has a nice list of Needed Features and Fixes for Google Reader. Most of these are pretty good (although I wonder how small your list of feeds is if you really need a "new story available" pop-up), but the one that really intrigued me was: Solve Overflow Memory Leak Problems: The ability to auto-refresh or just manually refresh your RSS feeds in Google Reader is a great feature, but the downside is you will find all those feeds build up in your session, and if your running Firefox, this can cause some serious memory leaks, if you use it frequently. If I could find a place to turn...
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