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Sun, 23 May 2004
Tell me something interesting.
Nelson Minar switched to using an aggregator (Nick Bradbury's -- I can't say enough good things about it -- FeedDemon) to keep track of all the blogs that he wants to read. Trouble is, that now keeping track of blogs seems like work. Oddly enough, I (mostly) feel the opposite. Back when I was still on Windows, I had a bunch of batch scripts that would open up a pile of IE windows with websites that I found interesting. I'd just run the scripts, and go do something else, while IE killed my my machine. But I found it to be a huge pain to keep track of all those copies of IE.
Now I'm using a combination of NetNewsWire (I use the combined mode exclusively -- no 3 paned mailreader for me) and FireFox+Tabbrowser Extensions (this combination is not particularly stable on the Mac, which one of my few complaints about the whole Mac OS X experience so far). This lets me manage way more feeds than I ever could, and as a result, I'm more inclined to include feeds that are more on the "fun" side as opposed to the "work" side.
When I was a grad student, I had an office mate who used to swivel his chair to face me, and say "tell me something interesting". Having the aggregator running in the background, picking up stuff, means that if I need a moment's diversion, I can just command-tab to NetNewsWire, and say, "tell me something interesting".
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Any particular reason for Firefox over Safari? Safari has the tabbed browsing, and can be 'hacked' with things like PithHelmet to remove ads, a command line change to speed up page loads (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4924) , and Safari Keywords to make the Google bar search other search engines. Just wondering, as I think the Safari + NetNewsWire combo works a bit more smoothly, as they both work off of OS X WebKit. Also, my major gripe with Firefox when I tried it out was that links opened from other programs opened in new windows as opposed to in the tabs. Is that what the extension you mentioned fixes? If so where do I find it?
Posted by C.K. Sample, III at Mon May 24 05:54:01 2004
Posted by C.K. Sample, III at Mon May 24 05:54:01 2004
Yes, the tabbed browser extension has many many preferences on just how tabs should work, and one of these is whether links from external apps should be opened in new tabs or the current one. It allows you to customise every conceivable aspect of tabbed browsing to your personal taste.
Posted by James at Mon May 24 09:54:09 2004
Posted by James at Mon May 24 09:54:09 2004
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