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Blox0r: AJAXy Outlooky RSS reader
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Squad guy Keith McDuffee got it right when he said "silly name, neat interface" telling us about Blox0r, which advertises itself as "The best online aggregator ever!" Its
an AJAXy feed reader that uses a classic Outlook three-pane interface. On the left is a list of feeds you're subscribed
to, a la Bloglines, and on the right are two panes, one for headlines and one to show the stories you click on. I like
the default mode because it takes you to the actual web site so you can read comments and so on, but it also has a
Preview Summary mode which will show summaries of all of the recent stories in a particular feed. It has most of the
features you expect from a web-based feed reader and a few more, so despite the name it's worth a look if you're in the
market for a feed reader. What's more, it's open source, so you can download it, tweak the code, and run your own
aggregator service if you want.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Peter said 6:23PM on 1-16-2006
That really is a sweet piece of software. I had it installed and running in about 15 min. (And that was with needing to create the SQL tables by hand)
It's great to not have to sync between multiple machines. The interface looks like it will take a bit of getting used to, but it seems very fast and responsive.
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