Category: Tech Talk

Dump bloglines, get t3h blox0r

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Thanks to Kevin Gerich for pointing me to this.

t3h blox0r is an RSS aggregator along the lines of bloglines, but its built on Gecko’s XUL toolkit. So you’ll need Firefox or something along those lines to use it. (Firefox is a great browser anyway, if you don’t have it, get it.) Anyway, it’s a lot more ‘slick’ than Bloglines. I think I’ll be switching…

UPDATE: Nope, I won’t be switching, yet. Some of my feeds that work in bloglines don’t work in blox0r. I imagine they’ll get that sorted out, though. I’ll check back in later.

AcidSearch

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Since I bought my new iMac I’ve been spending almost all my time in OS X “Tiger”. I even shelled out $100 for a .Mac account so I could sync bookmarks and mail accounts and stuff between my 3 active Macs.

Then I found out that .Mac only syncs Safari bookmarks. Doh! But I’m kind of liking Safari 2.0, especially the quick and easy RSS reading.

But I really hated losing Firefox’s cool “Find at you type” feature. So I went back to the ‘fox (not a bad thing, mind you…its an excellent browser).

Then today, I stumbled upon AcidSearch. This is a little ‘plug in’ for Safari that gives you mega-super-duper search options from the search bar, AND the ‘find-as-you-type’ feature I’d been missing out on.

So far it seems to work great. And better yet, its freeware. Check it out, Mac users!

Apple’s Jobs says company will support Podcasts

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Apple’s Jobs says company will support Podcasts
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will support and organize podcasts in the next version of its iTunes and iPod software, the company said on Monday.
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Sweet, even though I’ve already shelled out $20 for iPodderX. But its a little flakey. In fact, every client I’ve used has been a little flakey. This news kind of lends legitamacy to Podcasting, and hopefully Apple will do it right.