The web is so active nowadays, RSS, CSS, Jaiku, Facebook, Vox, Myspace, AIM, Y! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Pownce, Digg, Delicious, and more.
The originals are still the best though, Craigslist, AIM and Plain old email work great in my humble opinion.
Well, Google has this new thing called Google Gears which converts Web Apps (think Google Docs) to offline applications, and I like this because sure MS Office is the best Office software, but sometimes (like tonight) I use Google spreadsheets for making lists, as it’s safe in case the computer goes missing or I need to access the list from another computer, as I typed I looked up Google Gears and the first hurdle was that you MUST use Firefox for Mac if you want to use Google Gears, the second hurdle is that there are no Web Apps except Google Reader (an RSS feedreader) that use Google Gears, so for experimentation, I installed Google Gears, went to Google Reader.
Google Reader has been written about by Styleygeek at his blog, and its a good post, but my observations of it include:
But is it better than Vienna?
RSS is the greatest thing to come from the interweb since email, this tutorial tells you a lot more about RSS, but what I’m writing about here is Vienna.
Vienna is a great RSS feed reader or ‘Aggregator’ for Mac OS X, it’s got a clean UI, supports RSS and Atom, a Built in browser, supports smart folders, folder groups, import and export, scheduled refresh, flagged articles, reading panes, styles, unified layout, article filtering, blogging integration, condensed layout, whew!
The thing is, I’ve got thirty RSS feeds subscribbed to in Vienna on my MacBook, but my Power Mac’s Vienna has only 10 feeds, so today we’re learning how to get the same rss feeds in both.
Vienna has export. so we can simply export the feeds from thhe MacBook and import them to the Power Mac, there will be one missing function and that is syncing, a great article on macsimum news points out how syncing between RSS readers can occur, the caveat: you must use NetNewsWire which then uses .Mac to keep your feeds synced across computers;
“The only thing missing from Vienna is syncing, and that’s not a major problem for me anymore. I used to use NetNewsWire and it was able to use my .mac account to sync my feeds between my 12-inch PowerBook and my iMac at the office. That meant I didn’t have to sort entries twice. But the syncing was erratic at times and when I got my 17-inch MacBook Pro, I was able to use just one computer to read my feeds and Vienna fits the bill quite nicely.”
Read the rest of this article entitled Taking Advantage of RSS here
For me, I’ll export my feeds from the Macbook and import them to the Pwer Mac and that should work fine.
Happy Memorial Day all, its the first glorious weekend of Summer here in San francsico, and everbody is hard at work in the coffee shops typing up their novels, editing their photos and being technophiles. I spent some time updating AuburnCom.com with info and photos of Apple products like the Airport and Apple TV, I hope it’s helpful to some kind souls…
Its the 26th of May, less than a month away from the summer solstice and it feels like winter is coming! A beautiful day for walking around in long pants, a scarf and sipping on a large coffee from the wonderful coffeefool.com or your local starbucks.
My MacBook is spinning its fans like crazy at the moment, why? I’m not sure… but maybe it’s second life running that is causing the fans to spin like wild, sure enough I just pulled up Activity Monitor and Second Life was using 101% of my cpu, look:
I’ve been reading and learning about Online communities today, World of Warcraft, Second Life, FaceBook, Orkut, Flickr, Last.fm, Myspace, Star Wars Galaxies, City of Heroes etc.
What are you on?
Wow, Nine days since my last post! That explains why a google search for “Brendan McKenna” has buried this awesome blog below a whole lot of other nonsense that has not very much to do with me.
So whats been happening? I’ve been moving into my new place at Haight Street in San Francisco, I’ve rearranged the room for better feng shui and given Lola the cat her own space (though she seems to like the space beside me for unknown reasons…)
I’ve bought a great new iSight webcam for my Mac, I’ve taken Lola to the Vet to get her check up, and I spent the weekend upgrading Macs.
Time has just been zipping by and writing a blog has just been tough to do, I think I may need an assistant.
Email me for more news from the last week as there’s tons. I’m just rushing out at the moment and can’t type a thousand word piece.
Song of the day? Complicated!
One of Diggs top posts this morning was regarding the fact that iTunes has added “My Alerts” to inform you of when your favorite artists have a new song/album, and a new feature “Complete My Album” which is going to drive album sales and fulfills the wishes that music buyers have had for 40 years.
From the Article: “The feature, called “Complete My Album”, will allow customers who may have already bought individual tracks for 99 cents per song to receive credits for those tracks if they opt to buy the full album.”
When I first heard debates about whether this feature should be present in the iTunes store, I dismissed most proponents of the “Get credit for the single I bought” with the fact that for 40 years, we’ve been purchasing singles by Fatboy Slim, Modest Mouse, and even MC Hammer for between $1.99 and $4.99 (Yes! In Dublin, Ireland a CD Single costs $4.99), two weeks after the first single from the album went on sale (e.g. Gangster Tripping from the album You’ve come a long way Baby by the supreme Fatboy Slim) we went and bought the album too, we’d buy the $4.99 CD Single (or EP) Gangster Tripping love that and then buy the album (priced between $19.99 and $24.99) also, nobody brought their single’s into the Virgin Megastore and asked for $4.99 credit on the EP they already purchased.
iTunes dealt with the “I wanna get the single before the album is released” issue easily, Most Pre release albums sell for $9.99 on iTunes and when pre ordered give you the single two or three weeks before the album is released.
This didn’t provide folks who bought a Modest Mouse song off the album after it was released because they had to spend 99cents on the song and a week later, when they said “this song is so good, I want the album” they had to buy the $9.99 album, these folks felt shortchanged. I always thought it was a fine system as most of these albums are about $15 dollars on Amazon, so $9.99 plus 99cents is a great deal for the convenience that iTunes provides, besides, a lot of albums have only perhaps four, five, or six tracks that you want, the iTunes method of purchasing music allows us to buy just the four songs from that Fatboy Slim album and we never had that option in Virgin Megastore so isn’t that worth the odd 99cents when we decide to buy the entire album?
iTunes today has added the “Complete my Album feature” which gives credits for songs you’ve already purchased off an album, I hadn’t believed it was neccessary but now that it’s been implemented I think its fantastic, I think its going to sell a LOT of albums to people because now, one or two songs from an album aren’t just two songs but they’re a downpayment, you can buy the modest mouse single this week when you’ve a buck spare and another next week when you’ve another buck, but in three weeks, you might say “Hey, why not just buy the whole album, it’s only $7.97 after what I’ve already put down on it.
Fantastico.
Good News just in, the keywords bringing folks in this week to audible are:
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qi quite interesting
I love Tumblr, by the way. Tumblr.net, flickr.com and google are three essential ingredients in the 21st century. I’d love to hear other recommendations. Of course y’all will send me myspace, friendster or stumbleupon. wahtever it is, send it this way!
I love Tumblr, by the way. Tumblr.net, flickr.com and google are three essential ingredients in the 21st century. I’d love to hear other recommendations. Of course y’all will send me myspace, friendster or stumbleupon. wahtever it is, send it this way!
Mother Night
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