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Google Reader

Paul Westbrook | 29 September, 2006 23:01

With the changes that Google has made to Google Reader, I think that I can use Google reader as my main news aggregator.  The thing that mainly tipped the scales for me is the performance improvements.  Now it is usable on my laptop, without making Firefox use a lot of the CPU.

There are some other features that I like:

  1. The built-in flash player to play podcasts.
  2. The ability to select a feed, and only show posts from that feed.
  3. The ability to mark posts as "starred" on either the web browser, or a mobile device.
  4. The bookmarklet that let you easily subscribe to a feed in a web page In Google Reader
  5. The bookmarklet that lets you open a browser window to the next unread post, even when you are not currently on a Google Reader page..
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10.4.8 upgrade problem

Paul Westbrook | 29 September, 2006 22:41

I had a little scare this evening.  At work, I ran Software Update to install Mac OS 10.4.8.  When it finished, I clicked on the Shutdown button.  When I got home, I attempted to boot my PowerBook.  The computer didn't play the chime, and the screen didn't turn on.  This continued even after plugging in external power and removing and inserting the battery.

I went to the Apple Store to see how much it would be to fix it.  I though that the problem was with the motherboard.  I wanted to find out if fixing the PowerBook would be more than getting the 2.16 GHz MacBook Pro (wouldn't that be a shame).

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Amazon aStore

Paul Westbrook | 29 September, 2006 01:46

Amazon has made it very easy to create a personalized store.  This allows you to promote products from Amazon, and potentially get some revenue from thess.  Anyone with an Amazon Associates account can create an aStore. 

It was very easy to create my store, but there are some things that I think that they should add:

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