iGoogle Reader
I thought I’d take a snapshot of one of my main ‘digital homes’. I know there’s a lot of different sites and programs out there that organize rss feeds, bookmarks and the like. I’m definitely one of those, multi-system type of guys, where I use a few different systems (flickr, delicious, Xmarks, scrnshots, etc.) for organizing my different ‘digital stuff’. I think it’s interesting how the computer/internet mirror’s people’s real world organization skills and packrat-isms so succinctly. Some people just throw a bookmark in a ‘closet’, they’ll sort through and find it later if they ever need it. Some people pull out the plastic bin dividers and make sure their digital socks are color coordinated.
Anyway, I’m wandering, the point of this post was to give a little glimpse of one of my systems. iGoogle is a relatively simple rss reader / widget desktop. It serves it’s purpose of letting me know when the sites I watch have added a new post, and while also letting me see the newest Garfield strip, very important. What’s your rss strategy? Do you just have a routine of sites you visit to see new content? Or use some cool reader that totally blows my system out of the water?
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I use this really tricked-out application called BRAIN. It stores all the addresses and updating schedules of all my sites. It can even be used to store other data, such as personal stuff like passwords, phone numbers and names of friends. But the coolest part is a nifty feature that allows it to turn on automatically when I wake up!
To Underoo-man: Yeah I tried that one, seemed like it was always downloading something new, constant updates, and man, the upkeep, it was killing me. My goal is to slowly move all my systems away from that model until I’m running on nothing but external software, that seems safe right?
By the way, I’ve heard that when it’s in sleep mode it’s still running all kinds of processes so over the hardware lifespan it just keeps filling itself up until it finally crashes on ya, just a warning.