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I recently got into RSS, both reading RSS feeds and sending my own. If you don’t know what RSS is, you should find out!

According to this site

RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it’s not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the “recent changes” page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.

So, now you are up to date. “So what’s the big deal?” you might be asking. I have been using a new RSS aggregator to check the news and updates of my favorite sites instead of browsing their web pages. It makes it much quicker, easier, and more centralized. It’s great. Why navigate through 10 different web pages when you can look at one window that show you the list of feeds, and then the headlines and blurbs about each article?

The program that I have been trying out and really like is News Fire. It’s a really simple program that makes the things I want to do really easy. I regularly browse for interesting headlines on my favorite sites and open full articles to read when I feel like it. Sorry for all you Windows users out there, this one’s only for Mac OS X, but here’s a suggestion for one that the Windows users seem to like: Sharp Reader

Also, I now have an RSS feed for both of my blogs (look for the link on the right side). So if you want, you can download it and find out more easily when my site, as well as your other favorite sites, are updated!

NewsFire - Aggregating in style!

I was talking to Leila the other day and we got into a discussion about computer memory because I recently ordered some for my laptop. I spent about 20 minutes on the phone explaining all this nerdy stuff about computer performance, memory, CPUs, and hard disks. She probably didn’t want to hear it all, but she got an earful of techno geek babble.

Anyway, the reason I felt like blogging about this is not because I was surprised that she didn’t already completely understand how computers work, because most people don’t. (She could probably talk to me about legal issues for 20 minutes and I wouldn’t understand any more than what I know from my “Matlock”, Law & Order“ watching experience and from what I have read in 2 or 3 Grisham novels.)

The reason is because I re-discovered something about myself(that I think I already knew, but I thought maybe you might like to know) I really love talking about computers, especially explaining how they work to people who don’t know. For whatever reason, that’s just something that gets me excited and passionate. So if you have a question, feel free to ask me, because it would bring much joy to tell you anything about computers that you want to know!

I was talking to Leila the other day and we got into a discussion about computer memory because I recently ordered some for my laptop. I spent about 20 minutes on the phone explaining all this nerdy stuff about computer performance, memory, CPUs, and hard disks. She probably didn’t want to hear it all, but she got an earful of techno geek babble.

Anyway, the reason I felt like blogging about this is not because I was surprised that she didn’t already completely understand how computers work, because most people don’t. (She could probably talk to me about legal issues for 20 minutes and I wouldn’t understand any more than what I know from my “Matlock”, Law & Order” watching experience and from what I have read in 2 or 3 Grisham novels.)

The reason is because I re-discovered something about myself(that I think I already knew, but I thought maybe you might like to know) I really love talking about computers, especially explaining how they work to people who don’t know. For whatever reason, that’s just something that gets me excited and passionate. So if you have a question, feel free to ask me, because it would bring much joy to tell you anything about computers that you want to know!

I was talking to Leila the other day and we got into a discussion about computer memory because I recently ordered some for my laptop. I spent about 20 minutes on the phone explaining all this nerdy stuff about computer performance, memory, CPUs, and hard disks. She probably didn’t want to hear it all, but she got an earful of techno geek babble.

Anyway, the reason I felt like blogging about this is not because I was surprised that she didn’t already completely understand how computers work, because most people don’t. (She could probably talk to me about legal issues for 20 minutes and I wouldn’t understand any more than what I know from my “Matlock”, Law & Order” watching experience and from what I have read in 2 or 3 Grisham novels.)

The reason is because I re-discovered something about myself(that I think I already knew, but I thought maybe you might like to know) I really love talking about computers, especially explaining how they work to people who don’t know. For whatever reason, that’s just something that gets me excited and passionate. So if you have a question, feel free to ask me, because it would bring much joy to tell you anything about computers that you want to know!