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Oh My God. This is some cool stuff! Check the link below for a list of features and screenshots. This blows away both iTunes (which I was never crazy about) and Ephod, which is what I currently use. $25… Seriously thinking about buying it. Will try the free trial version tonight.

http://www.redchairsoftware.com/anapod/featpw.php

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After seeing this blog of a blog of a blog (blog^3?) I decided to add to it. Marc’s blogged about “Jeff Sandquist’s Seven Day Rule for Software“. So I’ll take this opportunity to share my Five-Minute Rule. Read the rest of this entry »

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I am not as all-knowing as it seems at times.

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I consider myself still a relative newbie to the RSS world. I scoured the net a few months ago looking for the best news aggregator for Windows what I came up with at the time was Sharpreader and Newsgator. Sharpreader is a free standalone client written in C#, hence the name. I like it, nice interface. Newsgator is NOT free, but I’ve been tempted to pay for it. What it does is grab your newsfeeds and put them into folders in Microsoft Outlook. Hey, I’m in Outlook all day anyway right? It’s a good fit.

The Scoblezier pointed out in his article t’other day a couple of other RSS news aggregators that I really like. Check out RSS Bandit and Bloglines.

RSS Bandit is a standalone client. Like Sharpreader, it’s a .NET application. Also like Sharpreader it’s got a nice interface. Note the funky “Monitoring System Event Logs” component! [screenshot]

Bloglines is a web service so you don’t install any software to your PC. The main benefit of this is that wherever you go, there you are–with your news. (Pardons to Buckaroo Banzai fans.) And just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, there is an an optional tray icon notifier for nifty desktop integration.

Most of these tools nowadays can import and export your feeds using the OPML specification. This means you can play with one or several, all using the same set of feeds without a lot of manual data entry.

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I feel like I’ve just been pressured by a couple of large Italian thugs to pay their protection racket money. (Note: I am an equal opportunity offender–they could be Cuban, Japanese, Mexican or whatever–it’s not important. )

Anyway, I’ve got an iPod and I love it. I use it on average about 5 hours a day during the week. Mostly while I’m sittng at my desk at work, and often for the morning drive. Battery life is for the most part not much of an issue for me since it’s plugged into the wall at work. But now it’s getting ridiculous. The rumors and stories are true, these batteries they put in the iPod are CRAP. I’ve had it since somewhere around July of last year and now instead of the rated 8-10 hours life i get somewhere between 45 minutes and 2 hours. Once or twice after charging all night the battery has been dead. Read the rest of this entry »

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http://www.lookoutsoft.com/

What Is Lookout?

Lookout is a Microsoft OutlookTM plug-in that provides advanced, lightning-fast search capabilities to your mailbox. You can use Lookout to search your:

email
attachments
contacts
calendar
filesystem

Search results come back almost instantaneously. It’s like having Google for your mailbox! But, don’t take our word for it. Read what our customers have said about Lookout. Once you have it, it will change the way you read email.

I’m installing it now… We’ll see if its worth the price. Which is $0 btw.

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First, check out the example. Then come back. Ok, AD xMenu is “A new way to accomplish multilevel menus without the Javascript” [that his previous version used]. Also check out the rest of the aplus site. It’s good stuff.

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“IE7 invokes a DHTML behavior to load and parse all style sheets into a form that Explorer can understand. You can then use most CSS2 selectors without having to resort to CSS hacks.”

What does this mean? The potential for this is awesome. With it you may be able to actually design a webpage once, and with some exceptions, actually expect it to work the same in IE as it would in Gecko-rendered browsers. My favorite example of this is the ability to use the CSS2 “:hover” pseudo-class on any element, not just anchors. Check it out!

The best part? There is NO CHANGE required to your xhtml or CSS. You simply include an extra stylesheet. And what I’m planning on doing (someday when I actually start working on this site) is including that stylesheet on the server-side using PHP to detect the user-agent. That way no useless bytes sent to browsers that /can/ do CSS2.

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