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I No Longer Reach The End Of The Internet

October 24th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments

After Newsgater totally screwed up NetNewsWire with the last release I have started using Google Reader’s web based interface (and ByLineicon on the iPhone) for RSS reading. I would love to use a desktop app for reading RSS feeds on my Mac but other than the now banned NetNewsWire, none of the other Google Reader compatible applications are stable.

That leaves me with the web interface in which I have a love hate relationship. I now how two more reason to love Google reader since they added an Explore section and a Personalized ranking.

The personalized ranking has done a pretty good job of pulling out the most interesting items from the several hundred subscriptions I have. When I run out of my own feeds to read (often known as reaching the end of the internet), google can show me the most popular feeds from everyone else’s feed and suggest other feeds.

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One Project Closer: $100 Home Depot Gift Card for Father’s Day

June 4th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments

One Project Closer is giving away $100 Home Depot gift certificate. To enter you can use one of the following methods:

  • 1 entries: Leave a comment.
  • 10 entries: Subscribe via e-mail.
  • 50 Entries: Blog about the Giveaway.

Please, go over and leave a comment to get your one entry, but please to not create a blog post. I would like to keep my 50 entry advantage.

Actually One Project Closer is a great site. Their radiant floor heating installation was a great resource for my own master bathroom radiant floor installation.

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Greg In The Desert Kindle Edition

May 20th, 2009 Greg Smith No comments

Greg In The Desert is now available on the Kindle Store as a paid subscription. It costs $1.99 to subscribe via the Kindle store.

As has been widely reported, Amazon sets the price of the subscriptions and gets 70%. If it were up to me I would make it free but I guess Amazon has bills to pay. You can still subscribe to my blog through the Kindle’s normal RSS feed reader.

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Pulp Fiction Not Working Out

June 8th, 2004 Greg Smith 2 comments
A few days ago I wrote about what I thought was a great news reader called Pulp Fiction. When I wrote about that I was using the lite version. A few days later I decided I wanted some of the full version features; primarily: Unlimited customizable labels, Custom cascading stylesheets (CSS), Fast, powerful filters and actions & AppleScript support. These features are all great but it’s missing one important feature: stability!

When I started off I had but a few subscriptions. I now have 52 adding 1 ever few days as I find more and more sites. The more sites I added the slower it got. It now takes about 3 seconds to move (with the arrow keys) from one article to another.

The worse part of the program is the crashing. If I left the program open all day I could expect at least 6 crashes or more. I quickly found that it crashed often, mostly when it was retrieving feeds. Having broadband I figured I would set the number of connections to the max: 25. Setting the connections to 2 or 5 seemed to reduce the number of crashes while getting feeds. It still seems to crash randomly for no apparent reason. Another problem I have when updating feeds is a dialog box telling me of errors with a quit or continue button. Unfortunately the continue button just results in more of the same dialog box, the only option is to quit.

I really wanted to like this program but it has far to many problems. I emailed the developer and they said to watch for version 1.0.1 to fix the problems. No firm date on release but expect it mid to end June. 

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