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  • Digg, Dug, Done

    Posted September 7, 2010 - 2:24 pm

    I've tried to like the new Digg, I really did, and I'm here to tell you that it's awful.

  • Google Reader 101: Getting Started With RSS

    Posted April 21, 2010 - 1:11 pm

    Do you routinely hop from one favorite Web site to another, just to see if anything new's been added? There's a faster, easier way: Use an RSS reader. (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, a technology that enables sites to come to you instead of you having to go to them.)

  • Why I'm quitting Google Reader

    Posted March 23, 2010 - 6:23 pm

    RSS is the life blood of my work. I rely on it to keep me informed on the industry in a timely fashion. Long ago, I switched to Google Reader, because it did what I wanted it to do: It displayed my subscriptions in reverse-chronological order. At some point, Google added sharing. I ignored it. That is, until Buzz came out.

  • Putting Yahoo Pipes to work

    Posted September 23, 2009 - 10:31 am

    You know how Excel is mostly really good but weirdly weak in a few areas? Here's a fix for one issue: String concatenation. And while we're on the subject of data manipulation, let's take a look at a remarkable Web service, Yahoo Pipes

  • Review

    Chill Pill brings RSS Fever to your desktop

    Posted September 10, 2009 - 10:43 am

    Today's RSS-client market is dominated by NetNewsWire and Google Reader, in no small part because both are good and free. But folks on the lookout for a different--better, some say--experience have been checking out Fever, a self-hosted, Web-based reader with a flexible interface and a fresh approach to slicing through the Internet's thick jungle of news.

  • Building an RSS podcast feed, Part 1

    Posted June 4, 2009 - 3:44 pm

    So, you want to set up an RSS feed for a podcast? Ah, young grasshopper, there is much data to munge and so little code to munge it with … at least code that you can live with.

  • Review

    iPhone RSS readers

    Posted May 1, 2009 - 9:58 am

    What makes the difference between a run-of-the-mill RSS reader and an extraordinary one? Having spent a fair amount of time using several RSS apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, I've come around to the view that it's the little things.

  • Review

    iPhone to Verizon -- or, how rumors get started

    Posted February 23, 2009 - 4:15 pm

    Apologies if that headline makes you think that the iPhone is coming to Verizon. It may, in fact, be coming to Verizon, but you know, probably not.

  • Programmer uncovers Safari RSS vulnerability

    Posted January 13, 2009 - 5:04 pm

    Programmer Brian Mastenbrook has identified a flaw that affects any Mac user who hasn't changed the default option for RSS reader in Safari's preferences (that default reader being, naturally, Safari itself).
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