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Feed Junkie TV

May 04

I’ve been getting more and more needy-greedy for desktop real estate lately. I’m now up to four displays in my man cave at home (more if you include iPads and iPhones, which I don’t) and five in the office at Linc (two of which aren’t currently in use but soon will be).

I blame the person who first dumped a second monitor on my desk and suggested I give dual-screen a chance because “monitors were going spare”. I didn’t need a second monitor back then… my desktop habits were perfectly organised into a single space: four borders, no neck action required. Now I can’t comfortably make do without at least three screens to flick between, cross reference and feed me information from multiple sources.

Firefox Sync and Home

Nov 22

Until recently, I stored all my bookmarked links in a widget on my Netvibes homepage – using my very own SS Bookmarks script. My browser’s bookmarks (or “favourites”) menu has always been empty. I did this to keep things centralised so whether I’m at work, at home, or on my iPhone/iPad I can always access one of my links. I also liked having them hosted on my own web space where I have full control and the data is entirely mine.

It has worked well but there were a few downsides and now I’ve switched to Mozilla’s Firefox Sync (for Mac/PC) and Firefox Home (for iPhone/iPad).

RSS Feeds – Intro and Tips

Jun 18

I posted this information in a forum reply recently. I thought I’d put it here too (a little edited) for those that visit my blog. If you’ve heard about RSS feeds but don’t know where to start you may find it useful.

RSS feeds really aren’t all that difficult to use and they’re an extremely powerful tool in your arsenal when surfing the Internet. It’s unfortunate they’ve struggled to break through and be utilised by the masses. I feel utterly empowered by them. They epitomize the saying “information is power”.

http://www.google.com/reader is the best place to start. It’s the best reading experience in my opinion and adds a thin social layer over the top for discovering new feeds. Gradually, as you subscribe to more it’ll work out the kind of information you enjoy consuming (games sites, you tubes, cars, sports, whatever) and then offer suggestions. I started out with about 10-20 websites I followed daily. Gradually that has climbed to 139. Many of them are in my “NSFAL” category (“Not Safe For Anxiety Levels”) because there’s only so much time in a day.