A Perfect Storm: Twitter and FriendFeed Kick It at the Same Time
I take it all back, I want to drown in awesomeness! It’s one thing for Twitter to be down (I wonder what Corvida’s doing now?), but for Twitter and FriendFeed to be down at the same time? Noooo….
Seriously! I got this:
Can everyone just please send me your tweets in the comments? Help!….Oh and by the way, did you see this? YackTrack Updated - New Feature Called "Chatter" Added! I was going to tell you on Twitter, but….
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ReadAir Isn’t Ready Yet
How excited was I when I heard that there was now a Google Reader Adobe AIR application that would let me browser through my feeds outside a browser? Pretty freaking excited! But then I thought "wait - why do I need this?" This doesn’t really help me solve a problem. With Twhirl, for example, I get easier access to all of Twitter’s features and it refreshes my tweets for me. Google Reader, though, isn’t really broken. (Well, except for NO SUBFOLDERS, which is literally killing me).
But, for the most part, Google Reader in the browser works just fine. ReadAir on the other hand, lacks a major feature: keyboard shortcuts. I don’t even think about it anymore, it’s just j, j, j, j, j, k, j all day long. I can’t imagine having to give them up just to use an AIR app.
That being said, it seems that adding keyboard shortcuts to the app is an upcoming feature, as is an offline mode, continuation, and alternate themes that don’t make it look like a Mac app (thank god). Maybe I’ll just have to check back later, then. (via DownloadSquad)
FriendFeed in Your Firefox Sidebar
Neat! The World of Slippy blog recently posted some steps on how you can put FriendFeed into your Firefox sidebar in just a couple of steps. The trick involves using Christopher Finke’s Feed Sidebar extension. After it’s installed, you can just use Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature to add your FriendFeed atom feed (click here) to your Live Bookmarks. Wah-la!
Nice tip!
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More on "Too Many Choices, Too Much Content"
I’m following the discussion around my latest rant on RWW (“Too Many Choices, Too Much Content”) using YackTrack. If that was your kind of post, you’ll want to check out these related articles too:
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