After a persuasive conversation with ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
caladrius, I spent a bit of this last week setting up Google Reader to handle all the comics I currently read. I was a bit surprised how many of my comics have an official RSS feed – those were easy. About a third of my current crowd do not have a feed, though, which was originally a dealbreaker.
Found a solution, though – Dapper allows me to create a feed by parsing an existing webpage. The interface is point-and-drool, pretty easy, and works neatly for all of the ‘normal’ comics I’ve got. Sequential Art doesn’t work so hot, probably because the page is bizarrely dynamic, with cookie-based memory of where I left off reading kinda stuff. I’ll have to tinker and see if I can sort a way to make it behave. The rest work, tho.
All in all, RSS seems to be arriving at a point I could get hooked on; a way to render unnecessary the addict-like refreshing of half-a-dozen websites in favor of just keeping an eye on one…
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Good and bad.
– The iPhone has a feature long lacking in the iPod family – a hardware rocker switch for volume, so I don’t have to fumble with a touch wheel to fix volume.
– The contacts system is slick, feels good, and provides correct features and mostly intuitive access to them.
– Said slickness is marred somewhat by the occasional unresponsiveness of the system. One of the the consistent problems I have with zero-impact equipment (I’ve been familiar with multitouch since I bought a ZI keyboard when my hands were at their worst) is the lack of feedback. Sometimes, I touch a phone number and I can’t tell if I missed, it’s thinking, or just wasn’t paying attention. It happens often enough to be the annoying feature of the phone. Hazards of convergence, it occasionally is just doing too much.
Becky and I will be able to make it tonight. See you all then!