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Thursday, June 06, 2002

I'll try it, but meanwhile I just wish I could turn antialiasing off on pretty much everything. It might be smooth as silk, but it's also blurry as shit. Makes me feel like I've got cataracts. [Doc Searls Weblog]   4:06:58 PM     There is no way this can be serious. I just can't believe that any organization (even a government agency) would not have this advanced POST-IT note technology: Technology Makes You More Efficient!. FBI Orders Message Pads Trip to OfficeMax crucial to agency’s overhaul, Mueller says "In what its director described as a 'crucial' first step to upgrade the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s intelligence-gathering capabilities, the FBI paid a visit to an OfficeMax office superstore today and bought 'a substantial number' of 'While You Were Out' message pads.... FBI Director Robert Mueller, speaking at a press conference in Washington, said that the FBI had also purchased 'these little yellow reminder thingies with stick-um stuff on the back so you can post them on your desk and whatnot.' Mueller added that the FBI was 'intrigued' by a machine they saw at OfficeMax that could record phone messages and store them while an FBI employee was away from his or her desk. 'Once the phone messages are played back, they could theoretically be written down on the 'While You Were Out' pads,' Mueller said." [MSNBC] [The Shifted Librarian]   3:57:30 PM     Aggregators About a week ago I mentioned that I was trying out Newz Crawler and that at first it seemed to be everything one would want. Well after about a weeks worth of using it extensively I think I'm coming back to using Radio and most likely back to developing my own. Here is what I like and don't like about Newz Crawler: Likes: Feeds can be listed in a tree view and categorized making it much easier to find specific ones if that is all you want to read for the moment. Number of new (unread) items per feed are displayed. Feed scan times can be specified by feed. So you can have one feed scanned every 15 minutes while others are set at hours or days. When new items show up in a feed I can have it optionally popup a window showing me a summary. When new items show up in a feed I can have it optionally display in a scrolling news bar (like news scrolled on CNN). Newsgroups can be added as a feed. This is fantastic. No more jumping to another application just to check if a newsgroup is updated. Better yet, I can have it notify me just like RSS feeds when something new is there. Dislikes: Well, its really just one that I can think of. I just can't scan and read news as fast as I would like. I thought at first I would be able to. It presents a tree view of feeds on the left with ones in bold and a number indicating the number of new items for that feed. In the top right pane, it shows the summary (titles of items) for the feed selected and once again bolds the ones I haven't read yet. In the bottom right pane are details of the item. At times it is faster. For instance if I want to read just a specific feed like Dave Winer then I simply select it and quickly scan the summary and select the items I want details on. But when I want to scan all new news since I last checked I have to click on each feed in turn, then on each summary in turn (if I want more details than the title). This is just too time consuming never mind way too many mouse clicks. In Userland Radio I just very keep the mouse wheel scrolling as I scan down the news items with details right there in front of me. Way faster, much more efficient. Don't get me wrong, I really like Newz Crawler and I'll be keeping an eye on it from time to time. All they really need for me is a full news view like Radio has and that might be the clincher.   8:10:02 AM     QNX 6.2 free for non-commercial use I've posted about QNX before. Sounds interesting especially since it works on an iPAQ as well. Might be worth a try: QNX 6.2. The QNX 6.2 OS is available for free non-commercial use. This version runs on the iPAQ as well as desktop PCs and random embedded systems. [Hack the Planet]   7:45:38 AM

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