Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-29 Thread Aaron Roberson
After all of the recommendations I have decided to give Google Reader another try, coupled together with the reader widget and setting iGoogle as my default home page. I installed the Greasemonkey script but I don't see the subscribe icon in the top right as promised, but it sure would make Google

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-29 Thread Mike Chabot
After reading this thread I tried out Google Reader and concluded that it is much better than my.yahoo.com, so I made the switch. Lifehacker.com has some nice info on Google Reader, including a video that demonstrates some of the shortcut keys.

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Kim
It only appears only pages with rss feeds available - to test, you may want to visit any blog to see if it shows up. You may also want to right click the greasemonkey monkey icon at the bottom right to see if the Google Reader subscribe option is checked. The shortcut keys are nice. I imported

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-29 Thread Mike Chabot
Using fullasagoog as an example, how do you turn that into an OPML file that can be imported into Google Reader? Thanks, Mike On 5/29/07, Daniel Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shortcut keys are nice. I imported the ompl files from mxna, fullasagoog, and sean corfield's site (i think i

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Kim
i checked out this page: http://www.fullasagoog.com/blogsontap.cfm the cf opml url is: http://www.fullasagoog.com/opml/ColdFusionMX.opml i saved the .opml file locally. in google reader, went to Settings Import/Export, and uploaded the local file. don't know if there is any way to do it via

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel Kim
The Google front end teach lead created a greasemonkey script for firefox that detects rss feeds on a page and allows you to add them to your Google Reader subscriptions. It is pretty slick - shows the type of feeds on the page, and also indicates if you are already subscribed.

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield the other day and being asked me, Don't you read my blog? and I had to admit that I hadn't in a long while, I starting thinking about how much I am missing by not having a good system in place for

RE: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Hugo Ahlenius
| On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do you use that works for you? I use a plugin software for Outlook, that is called intraVnews, and it works quite ok. It stores all blog posts as individual items, and I have set it to download the full pages too, not only the snippets

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 25 May 2007, Aaron Roberson wrote: I guess I'm looking for a desktop client dedicated to RSS feeds that will behave like Thunderbird Err, why not Thunderbird ? It's what I use at home - at work I've got the great Kontact KDE stuff. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Chiverton To: CF-Talk Sent: Fri May 25 09:19:39 2007 Subject: Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs? On Friday 25 May 2007, Aaron Roberson wrote: I guess I'm looking for a desktop client dedicated to RSS feeds that will behave like Thunderbird Err, why not Thunderbird ? It's what I use at home

RE: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Andy Matthews
: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs? i use google custom pages, now called iGoogle. I have tabs and sets of feeds for different disciplines, like coding,news business, woodworking, hiking/kayaking/outdoors, green architectures, etc. On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
On 5/25/07, Sean Corfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield the other day and being asked me, Don't you read my blog? and I had to admit that I hadn't in a long while, I starting thinking about how much

RE: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Phillip Duba
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs? i use google custom pages, now called iGoogle. I have tabs and sets of feeds for different disciplines, like coding,news business, woodworking, hiking/kayaking/outdoors, green

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On 5/24/07, Sean Corfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 193 individual blog feeds in NNW If anyone is interested, my feed list is always available (with groups) at this URL: http://corfield.org/articles/MySubscriptions.opml Be warned: there are a couple of unusual blogs in the Personal group

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Terry Schmitt
RSS Bandit was my Windows app of choice, but Google has Reader working exactly how I like reading RSS feeds, so Google Reader is my only RSS feed reader now days. ~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 experience

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Jeff Small
- From: Terry Schmitt To: CF-Talk Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 12:51 PM Subject: Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs? RSS Bandit was my Windows app of choice, but Google has Reader working exactly how I like reading RSS feeds, so Google Reader is my only RSS feed reader now days

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-25 Thread Nathan Strutz
While not answering the question of a desktop RSS client for Aaron, I would like to add a me too to the conversation, Google Reader is my cup-of-tea. I find the shortcut keys essential, so much so that I keep trying to hit j when reading blogs on other sites to get to the next entry. I typically

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Barney Boisvert
I really liked SharpReader when I was using Windows. It's simple and lightweight. But I've been using Google Reader for a while now, and really like it. I regularly use four different computers, so having a single client that remembers what I've read and such regardless of what computer I'm on

SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron Roberson
After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield the other day and being asked me, Don't you read my blog? and I had to admit that I hadn't in a long while, I starting thinking about how much I am missing by not having a good system in place for reading RSS feeds. I have tried using the built in

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Chabot
I check my.yahoo.com during lunch, which is what I use for my RSS reader. For other sites I use a program called WebSite-Watcher. It costs around $75, but it will tell you when content has changed and shows a pop-up alert, even if the page doesn't have an RSS feed. The great thing about

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Jerry Johnson
i use google custom pages, now called iGoogle. I have tabs and sets of feeds for different disciplines, like coding,news business, woodworking, hiking/kayaking/outdoors, green architectures, etc. On 5/24/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Antony Sideropoulos
Hi I use (and recommend!) FeedDemon (http://www.bradsoft.com/), written by Nick Bradbury (http://nick.typepad.com/), who also wrote HomeSite back in the day. You also get a newsgatoronline subscription as part of the purchase, and that lets you synchronise your feeds between different

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Randy Johnson
I have tried a few different ones. I like great news the best. http://www.curiostudio.com/ It's free and can handle tons of feeds without maxing out the PC -Randy Johnson Aaron Roberson wrote: After a conversation I had with Sean Corfield the other day and being asked me, Don't you read

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread Aaron Roberson
Google Reader is one of the online tools I tried using but it never became a part of my online ritual. However, it may help if I could right click or command click an RSS feed link and add it to Google Reader. Is that possible to do without the RSS link actually being a Google reader link? -Aaron

Re: SOT: How do you stay up on blogs?

2007-05-24 Thread James Holmes
I can see a nice little Apollo app there - display your Google reader but allow for drag and drop or even command menu adding of rss feeds. That would be nice if it's possible. On 5/25/07, Aaron Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google Reader is one of the online tools I tried using but it never