Tuesday 29 May 2007

Consuming RSS feeds

I use Google Reader eachday to trawl through all the RSS feeds i subscribe to, this is mainly because of the interface and  keyboard shortcuts make it very easy to quickly scan items and filter out those of interest.  Previously I've been using the sage plugin for firefox, which has worked well, and more recently the feeds bar for IE7-- again the keyboard short cuts on that are great.. for example if you are using IE7 :

Open Feeds CTRL+J
Open Feeds in pinned mode CTRL+SHIFT+J

However, i find Google Reader works best for me, especially the new shared items feature.   You can view my shared articles here

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/01316159295444228531

See how Robert Scoble reads 600+ feeds a day

 

Sunday 27 May 2007

Shark fishing in Sydney harbour

Nearly broke my rod reeling it in!

 

Sunday 20 May 2007

Ingunn

hit 30 this week.  To celebrate we met up with a few friends on Friday night at Bar Comida down Stanley St and did the harbour Bridge climb yesterday which was a great experience. 

Not sure what this is

Wating to catch a fish. I've actually got some smaller fish hooks now which i reckon will solve all problems.

  

 

"Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion."  (L. Ron Hubbard, founder of scientology)

ha ha ha.

Friday 18 May 2007

Bike maintainence

Web site WikiHow has a detailed guide for bicycle maintenance to help keep your bike in tip-top shape.

 

Saturday 5 May 2007

Top of my wishlist

The  iMate Momento 100 Picture Frame, which has a 10 inch 800 x 480 picture frame that has built in WiFi. You can plugin a memory card or USB drive with photos on them, or better still connect to the Momento Live Service and stream photos that to it.   You can also get photos to it by using Windows Media Connect from your Vista or XP Computer.

But the best part is, Momento supports Vista SideShow Gadgets (not SideBar). This means that you can download and use a bunch of gadgets on the Windows Live Gallery and enable them for use on the picture frame. The data then renders very nicely over the photos as the slide show goes.

At the moment it looks like the device only supports WEP and WPA for Wireless Encryption, but a firmware upgrade will support WPA2.

I've tried to order it on Amazon, but annoyingly they won't ship it down here.

Wouldn't it be great if you could stream some sort of image rss feed to it, from flickr perhaps? 









Top of my wishlist

The  iMate Momento 100 Picture Frame, which has a 10 inch 800 x 480 picture frame that has built in WiFi. You can plugin a memory card or USB drive with photos on them, or better still connect to the Momento Live Service and stream photos that to it.   You can also get photos to it by using Windows Media Connect from your Vista or XP Computer.

But the best part is, Momento supports Vista SideShow Gadgets (not SideBar). This means that you can download and use a bunch of gadgets on the Windows Live Gallery and enable them for use on the picture frame. The data then renders very nicely over the photos as the slide show goes.

At the moment it looks like the device only supports WEP and WPA for Wireless Encryption, but a firmware upgrade will support WPA2.

I've tried to order it on Amazon, but annoyingly they won't ship it down here.

Wouldn't it be great if you could stream some sort of image rss feed to it, from flickr perhaps?