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Reading Feeds With RSS Bandit
February 3, 2006 by Danny SullivanDave Naylor and I were IMing
today about IE 7’s new RSS feature. He was very excited. I haven’t tried it yet,
but the screenshot he sent me didn’t make me think it was better than the
RSS Bandit feed reader I currently use.
I’ve been meaning to write about that anyway, so this gave me an excuse.
Let me preface this by saying that everyone seems a bit different on how they
read feeds. Some do it for pleasure, and they aren’t worried about missing
something, in the same way they might not worry if they missed a day or two of
reading the newspaper. Others read for work and maybe manage a ton of feeds
(that’s me). Others seem to want to read one feed at a time, something I’ve seen
some people describe as "wrong" or "stupid."
My feeling is that there is no "right" way to read feeds. Anyone who tells
you that is the stupid one. What’s the "right" way to read a newspaper or watch
TV. Can you start with Business and then read the main news sections. Do you
need to watch each program from beginning to end or is flipping allowed?
Read feeds however you want. What is helpful is to hear about how others do,
because you can pick up tips or ideas on how you might improve your own reading.
Sky HD Arrives — Well, Sky HD Channel Teasers Do
February 2, 2006 by Danny SullivanFlipping through my Sky channels tonight, I nearly fell off the sofa. Sky Movies 7, 8, 9 … then instead of the usual Sky Cinema 1, there was Sky Movies 9 HD! I couldn’t believe it — HD channels were actually live, despite the fact my various satellite magazines said we’d be lucky to see them by April.
Well, the channels are there, but HD is a long ways off still. Doing a quick search, this article at Pocket-Lint had an operating telling them that Sky HD would launch on April 1, but then Sky’s public relations department appears to have said there’s no firm launch date.
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Gmail’s “Custom From” System Messed Up By “On Behalf Of” Headers
January 31, 2006 by Danny SullivanEarlier this month, I began
using Gmail to both receive and send my email via POP. Previously, I’d just
used it to receive mail. By also sending through Gmail, I get a more complete
archive of all my mail over time. The problem is, despite setting everything to
keep my actual Gmail address hidden, it’s still getting revealed.
Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility - Not!
January 31, 2006 by Danny SullivanI’ve been waiting for an Xbox 360 for more than half a year now. One of the
big pluses was the backwards compatibility with my existing Xbox games. That was
in all the gaming magazines that I buy occasionally. The reality is much
different. Only 13 percent of my games are compatible, which makes a mockery of
the word "compatible."
At Last, My Xbox 360 Arrives — And Now I Don’t Want It
January 31, 2006 by Danny SullivanXbox 360s are finally beginning to flow into Britain again, after the initial
shipment last November came and went to the dedicated few who had preordered. I
put my name down at Game two weeks ago and was shocked to get a call this
weekend that one unit had come in. Lucky me! Or so I thought. It turns out that
the backwards compatibility with old Xbox games is woefully poor, something I
cover in more detail in my Xbox
360 Backward Compatibility - Not! post. It was the straw the broke the
camel’s back in terms of making me go off the Xbox 360 — and possibly the Xbox
platform entirely.
Big Storm Novels
January 26, 2006 by Danny SullivanI just finished reading
Category Five by Philip S. Donlay, where a big monster hurricane is bearing
down on the Eastern United States. It’s a fairly decent airport novel, plenty to
keep you entertained while waiting for your flight to depart. It also got me
thinking about some other monster storm and weather novels I’ve read.
Let me take more about Category Five first, which from what I can tell was
written well before last year’s killer hurricanes. Big bad Hurricane Helena
looks to be a new breed of storm emerging out of climatic change. You’ve got a
weather researcher who’s monitoring it, her former lover Donovan Nash who’s got
a hidden past and the bright idea of perhaps stopping the storm in its tracks by
nuking it. Yes, it’s right out of the "just add water" school of instant
thriller/action novel. You won’t be dazzled by amazing plot turns. But it’s an
easy and fairly entertaining page turner.
At Last, An Espresso Machine For My Wife
January 24, 2006 by Danny SullivanThis Christmas, my long struggle to get my wife an espresso machine finally
came to an end. She’s now happily caffeinated via a Gaggia Titanium. I’m happy I
no longer have to research the darn things! But if you’re after a machine, I
wanted to point out a few places to check out.
It all started about three years ago. My wife dropped a hint that she wanted
a cappuccino machine. I knew nothing about these things. I know nothing about
coffee. When she sends me into a Starbucks, I’m the one asking for a large
espresso with non-fat milk rather than a grande skinny or whatever the code
words are.
Babies Can Smile In UK Passport Photos Again
January 20, 2006 by Danny SullivanWay back I wrote how my
wife had to have a new passport photo shot because she smiled in her original
one. Later this year, I have to get my five year old’s passport renewed. I’d
better hope he doesn’t smile. But what about young babies? Good news for parents
in the UK.
Passport change puts a smile on baby’s face from the Daily Telegraph says
that if they are under a year old, they don’t have to smile or even keep their
eyes open. Why the change? In three months, over 15,000 child passport
applications were rejected because of the no smiling rules.
Gmail & Error 0×800CCC7D In Outlook 2003
January 20, 2006 by Danny SullivanI may be sticking with
Gmail, but will Gmail stick with me? Today, one of those dreaded Outlook error
messages appeared:
