An organized life

By Matthew on October 23, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (6)

I haven’t been posting much lately. It’s the sort of thing that happened gradually. I have been doing a lot on the internets just not in the form of writing for Merde (Prescott Family dot org, 10/25!!!!). So, in the vein of getting back to it, I’m going to bring together a few blurbs I’ve written from around the internet. Little tiny guys. Hopefully you will see the connections. These closely resemble reviews.

I REALLY like Google Reader
I used Safari’s built-in feed reader, but being at school/home/work I wanted something I could use in all the places easily. Voilà! Google Reader. I really, really like it. I think I like it so much because I used (feature-less) Safari RSS for so long. Seasoned aggregators might not like it as much, but it has a lot of features you don’t see on the surface. I’m really just talking about the keyboard shortcuts. My faves are j and k, which are next and previous post. And in a close second n and p, which scan within a post. (Oh! and v, which is used to view the original post). Anyhow, something I just stumbled upon is gu. gu is great for isolating a single feed. Which is a REALLY good thing when Digg and BBC and such are filling up your screen. (Lifehacker has more about the keyboard shortcuts.)

buzzword
Buzzword is an Adobe product. It’s an all flash and all web-based word processor, which is good and bad. I am most impressed with font selection. Obviously. I haven’t actually used it to write anything serious, more to just play around with, but it seems to have potential. Also, I would like to see more formats than Word and RTF. (A note: I haven’t extensively tried Google Docs either, so I don’t really know how buzzword and Google Docs compare).

Browser Choice
I have struggled for a long time about browser choice. I like Macs. I like the look of the applications. I also like features and ease of use. Here’s what I said on 10/6:

I finally have completely given into Firefox. Don’t get me wrong. I love Safari. But I’m tired of Safari crashing on my bank’s site. Firefox is also very open source and can be used on any platform (for the part of me that want to use Linux all the time). (Also, I know Safari is pretty open and is based on Konqueror.) Plus, so many sweet plugins. I tried Camino, but it’s too close to Safari in the lack of really cool plugins. Not as many people use these browsers. I will still use Safari occasionally, but Firefox is my lady now. (Plus FF 2 isn’t as slow as 1.5 was for me.)

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Also, what happened to Firefoxy? It seems it hasn’t been updated since 2006 (probably the last time I’ve really used Firefox).

Obviously Firefox is good for Linux and Windows, otherwise I don’t really like it. There, I said it. It’s not Gecko or anything like that, it’s just too slow and ugly. On 10/9, I retracted my statement saying:

So I’m pretty much sworn back to Camino. It’s so tiny and fast. It makes my heart race. And it’s so damn pretty.

So that’s my choice. Camino. It’s small, fast, cute. It’s really a win/win situation. It’s uses Gecko, but is written in Cocoa. “Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac Style” Damn right. (With that being said, I’m not that hardcore. I use Safari and Opera occasionally, but only for testing websites. And I haven’t quite deleted FF from my applications folder. But 99.9% of the time I use Camino.)

(Use Camino with Google Reader with Reader Notifier.)

Categories: Internet

Tags: adobe, browser choice, buzzword, camino, google, googlereader, mozilla, safari

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