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NewsFire RSS Reader

2004-12-02 00:00:00 -0500

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jduprey

December 2nd, 2004
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impressed

I purchased NetNewsWire for my RSS news aggregation this fall. Yesterday I stumbled on NewsFire RSS and think it is really slick. The NewsFire web site indicates that the beta is free, but it will eventually be a shareware app. I may have invested in NetNewsWire prematurely.?

NetNewsWire may have more features, but NewsFire is fast, aqua beautiful, and very keyboard friendly. Its pictured below.

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Mozilla Composer Extracted From Suite - Nvu

2004-12-02 00:00:00 -0500

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jduprey

December 2nd, 2004
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pleased

Linspire has sponsored a project to create a mature WYSIWYG HTML editor based on the Mozilla Suite's composer. Nvu is the project name and it is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X. This is interesting because I think it could be used as a rich editing component for blogs. The DeepestSender LiveJournal client already uses the composer module, I believe.

OmniWeb - A Much Better Safari

2004-12-01 00:00:00 -0500

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jduprey

December 1st, 2004
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 I've read many good things about the OmniWeb web browser, but Safari and Firefox are great and free. Lately Safari's been having these "pauses" in which the little spinning beach ball shows up and I can do NOTHING with it for several seconds. Firefox is great, but it doesn't quite integrate with the Mac as tightly as I'd like. So I finally tried OmniWeb on a whim and I'm finding that I really like it.

OmniWeb 5.0 is a commercial application and uses the same open source rendering engine as Safari via Apple's WebCore. (The rendering engine, KHTML, comes from konqueror - a KDE-based file/web browser.)

So far, there are two main features that I really like:

  • Thumbnails instead of tabs. See the picture to the left.

  • Workspaces. OmniWeb remembers all your opened web pages and you can even create different workspaces for different sets of web pages. I know you can simulate this in FireFox, but with OmniWeb its seamless.

    • There are plenty of other features, but these two make it almost worth the $30 (US).
    Other notable features include an RSS reader which I would consider using, but it doesn't display the full HTML summary. I'll stick with NetNewsWire for now.

    Read this Daring Fireball article on the beta version of OmniWeb 5. It is now considered stable at 5.0.1.

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    fraserspeirs has also praised OmniWeb.

    Damn Dirty B*st*rds!

    2004-12-01 00:00:00 -0500

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    jduprey

    December 1st, 2004
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    angry

    Several weeks ago, my STi badges were ripped off my car! I'm not sure exactly when it happened. I suspect it happened in the downtown Rochester garage where I park.

    Before:

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    They tried to rip the front badge off the grill and failed. It broke. They left what was left attached to the grill. Its just a piece of plastic but it pisses me off. Some dick is probably wearing it around their neck right now. At least they didn't dig into the paint.

    Ballmer Threatens (Litigation?) Over the Use of Linux

    2004-11-23 00:00:00 -0500

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    jduprey

    November 23rd, 2004
    Panasonic braves Linux-inspired wrath of Ballmer | The Register

    "Was this what Microsoft (Steve Ballmer) was growling and threatening about, when he told Asian countries: "nice little Linux OS you have here. Be a pity if someone sued you..." yesterday? Is it this mass market 3G Linux phone range for Japan, from Panasonic and NEC...?"