Friday, February 23, 2007

Mac Geek Discovery

If you use a Mac and use NewsFire to manage your RSS feeds (and why wouldn’t you? It’s awesome!) (although I’m looking into NetNewsWire as well, just for giggles), you can do this kind cool and not a little bit geeky trick.

Surf to a site.

Safari notes that the site has an RSS feed. (it has a big ol’ blue RSS thing on the right side of the address bar)

Click on the RSS button thing in the far right of the address bar. The address changes to the RSS feed address. Something about atom or rss 2.0, or index.xml, most likely.

Highlight the feed address and the go to the dusty and NEVER REALLY USED “Services” menu under application name menu. Smack the “Add Feed to NewsFire” item and it automagically adds the feed to your NewsFire list o’ goodies.

Kind of cool.

Here’s a screen shot of me adding Heather Powazek Champ’s excellent site to my feeds in NewsFire.

The Services menu… I’ll always love you, even if no one else on the planet does.

Favorite Entries

If you are new around here, the following entries have been reasonably well received. You might want to peruse these.

• Help Wanted
• From the Office of Mis-directed Email
• A Word from the Small Person in the House
• RNT Product Review: Chocolate Mix Skittles Left Me Sterile!
• Jon’s Report Card circa… A Long Time Ago
• Dear Gratuitously Naked Conversationalist at the Gym:
• A Peek Inside the Writer’s Guild and Producers’ Negotiations
• We Regret the Error
• Letters from a Homeowner to His General Contractor
• What I Did There
• Hermaphrodite Administrative Assistants and Receptionists Need Not Apply
• Giving Me an IM Account Was Obviously a Huge Mistake
• Official Ransom Note Typography Vista vs. Mac OS X Shootout
• I Need a Real Hobby
• Beat Down
• Big Fat Lies
• True Love
• Now MY Ovaries Hurt
• Don’t Get Her Started
• Disturbing Trend
• Had to do it
• Mooshy stuff
• Ransom Note Typography End User License Agreement “EULA”
• Diva-licious!
• Just so we’re clear
• PETA may have a point

Holy Crap! Look at all this STUFF down here. It's awesome!

Really, I'm glad you made it down here. Almost no one ever comes down here. I'm like in a freaking dungeon down here. I get lonely. But not you. YOU made it all the way to the end of the page. For this I think I've a little crush on you. I don't know, is "love" to strong a word to use in this situation? Well, if it's not "love," then it's very strong "like." I'm totally in like with you for coming down here. You are awesome. Please love me back! I know, I know, I shouldn't be all needy, it's not attractive at all, but you don't know how it is to be stuck down here. Who scrolls all the way to the end of a page anymore these days? Anyway, thanks for shedding some light down here in the depths. I appreciate it. Shoot me an email and I'll send you a dollar, OK?

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