Sunday, July 29, 2007

A little off topic but...

For anyone who likes to read multiple blogs, news agencies, columns, and regularly updated sites like I do, might I recommend the Firefox Add-On called Beatnik (for those using the Firefox browser only). It organizes all your RSS/Atom feeds on one handy little side bar, like so:



There are other news reader, I just like this one cause it's simple and uncluttered.

If you don't know if the page you are on has a feed, look in the address bar for this symbol:



Click on it and you will get something similar to this:


When you subscribe, then it will save just like a bookmark. I like to organize all of mine together in one bookmark folder personally.

Then when you access Beatnik, or any other reader, it will alert you to new posts usually signified in bold.

With Beatnik, you can even add a icon to your Firefox icon bar up top for easy access (see below) or call it up through the Tools menu in your Firefox browser.


Anyway, just thought someone might find this useful. I read a couple of different pages everyday or so (friend's blogs, BBC, my email even) and find it pretty awesome.

Click here to get Beatnik

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