FeedReader: My New Favorite RSS Aggregator/Reader

My requirements for an RSS feed reader were simple:

Windows Support Toaster Pop-ups (with individual news item titles) Feed filters Free

I had been using FeedDemon for a while, but it missed the second half of my toaster requirement. That and for whatever reason it seems to take days to get updates to feeds, even [...]

SourceForge Spam (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Cancel My Account)

After having a SourceForge account for about 10 years, I’m canceling it for one reason and one reason alone: Spam. SourceForge has this “feature” where anyone can email you at yourusername@users.sourceforge.net, and they will happily forward it on to the email address you have on file with SF. That’s great, except, I don’t want spam [...]

Countdown to Palm Pre

  I’m dying for this thing to come out. I’m even more hopeful that I’ll get my hands on it come release day.           Countdown to Pre-Day TargetDate = “6/6/2009 8:00 AM”; BackColor = “none”; ForeColor = “Darkorange”; CountActive = true; CountStepper = -1; LeadingZero = true; DisplayFormat = “%%D%% Days, [...]

Restreaming ASF to MP3 Via Icecast and VLC

Say you have an internet radio stream that you like to listen to. You like to actually get up from your computer once in a while and go outside, so you want to play it on your iPhone/Blackberry/G1/Treo/Centro/Pre/Whatever as you’re out and about. But wait! Due to poor decision making by your beloved stream provider, [...]