It's News to Me

I have changed the theme so that I can test whether doing so will permit me to post pictures here. So again, I'll see if I can get the photo of «My Newspaper» from my Flickr site to post.

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This morning I took this screenshot of Fock's Newspaper (i.e., its RSS news reader) illustrating how it looks when the feeds have been updated.

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The lastest version of Flock, soon to be released in beta and codenamed "Cardinal," has improved the way RSS feeds are handled. The feed reader in Flock is called My Newspaper, and it is represented by an icon in the icon bar that looks like a newspaper (what else?) and is positioned just to the left of the icon for starring a favorite (which, in Flock's terminology, equates to marking a site as a favorite).

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I saw this comment (#7) over on Mike Neel's blog this morning and decided I'd better post something here on my blog before such comments begin appearing in my comment section. So let me try to catch you up on some of the things that have been capturing my attention during the last week or so.

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After evaluating SnagIt for my 30 day trial period, I decided to go ahead and register it.  I've used it to create a few screencasts, mostly for the purpose of teaching myself to use SnagIt, but I can see great value in screencasts in general.  While it is possible to write out a description of how to do something, nothing quite matches seeing the actions that would otherwise have to be read and visualized mentally. 

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Back on February 16, 2006, I posted this entry about a workaround for preventing Flock, which is based on Firefox, from opening two tabs when you click on a link from an email. At the time, I thought the fix I had proposed had solved that problem.

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This post is to test a bug I reported in Flock when publishing from the  blog editor.  It has no purpose other than to generate a post that I can use to generate the error.

technorati tags: Flock, testing, bug

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When Mike and Daryl and I met yesterday, our conversation revealed that we each have very different styles of surfing and using the various tools that are available to us. And that, I think, is one of the great values of getting together with other knowledgeable users. You get ideas about different ways of doing things, particularly if you don't get hung up with trying to convert others to your style but rather learn from them about their preferences.

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I suppose all of us have heard it said many times that «the more you put into something, the more you'll get out of it.» And my recent experiences in being involved in the Flock community only bears out the wisdom of that statement.

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