Review: Fever RSS Reader

Guess what?! I got a fever, and the only prescription…is more cowbell!

Fever RSS reader is a inventive take on the horrors of “Second Inbox Syndrome”, and the annoying (and evergrowing) unread counts in traditional RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader. Fever is developed by Shaun Inman, who is also the developer of Mint.

Fever does not have any unread counts by default. This allows the user to relieve the need to read every single item in all of his or her feeds. Feeds in Fever are split into three groups: sparks, kindling, and hot. Sparks are feeds that produce a lot of content, that the user does not have to read all of. These feeds are meant to push kindling feeds onto the hot page. Kindling are low content blogs, from which the user wants to read all the posts. Lastly, the hot section is like Digg, but made out of all your feeds. Fever looks through all of the articles that come in through a user’s subscribed feeds, and looks for common stories. These stories are pushed up to the hot page, and are given a “fever” (99.2 degrees, 107.2 degrees etc. . .).

I really enjoy the user experience that Fever has to offer, and I would recommended it without hesitation except for a couple of things. First, it costs money ($30). That’s not chump change. Secondly, you need a server to run it on (also it has to have a domain name). Lastly, there is no native iPhone app. You have to use a web page optimized for the iPhone that is particularly buggy.

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New Years Eve

Well the first few minutes of 2011 have passed. Fireworks fill the air and I lay in bed reflecting on the wonderful year that has passed. I hope that everyone is enjoying their New Years’s eve. 2011 can only get better!

Tomorrow I hope to post a review of the Fever RSS reader by Shaun Inman. So far it is amazing.

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Taking Risks

I’m about to update to the new WordPress beta. They said not to put it on a real blog. But what is the fun in that? So therefore, I am throwing caution to the wind (yay cliche). Sorry if this site explodes.

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Three Word Review: Xporter XT 8gb Flash Drive

Fast, yet expensive.

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Wikipedia FAIL

Rioting: Generally Discouraged

Rioting: Generally Discouraged

~found on the homecoming page on Wikipedia

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Straying from Simplenote

I used to sing the praises of Simplenote from every rooftop I could. Unfortunately I’ve had to stop. As of late Simplenote has become unreliable and I am afraid ofusing it for important text. Just the other day while o was working on an essay. I opened up Simple to discover  all my changes missing. I had to redo twenty five minutes of work. I can’t have my notes deleting themselves at random, until Simplenote  figures out their login/syncing problems I just cannot recommend them.

I have found another application that is just as good and even a little bit easier to use. It is called “Plaintext”. Plaintext syncs notes you take on your iPhone with your Dropbox account. This means you can edit your notes from any computer wherever Dropbox is supported. From what I know, Dropbox is very reliable and I feel like I have more control over my files with their system.  Also the nice thing is Dropbox automatically syncs my notes everywhere. With Sinplenote i would have to manually sync my changes on third party clients. Overall they perform the same functions. I think I liked Simplenote’s web app a little bit better. Overall they perform the same task. Right now I would stay on the safe side and use Plaintext. Plaintext can be found on the Apple app store for free.

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Unknown Scout

Fog engulfed the London architecture. Primitive leather boots splashed on the ground, slapping against the cobbleston sidewalk. The dim rays of the singular street light off in the distance tried to break the darkness. As the boots neared closer to the street light a man appeared beneath it. The man looked side to side dumbfounded. His suit was soaked and his leather shoes were soggy. The plodding steps of the boots slowed down and finally came to a stop in front of the lost man.
“Hey Mister! Do you need any help?” the young man in the boots called out.
“Actually; I am somewhat lost.” The man replied hesitantly.
“I know this area bettter than any surveyor.” the boy exclaimed.
The boy sprinted forward, taking the man by the hand.
“Where to?”
They were off, before W.D Boyce could tell the boy the whole address. Like a jackrabbit the boy hopped merrily with the older man in tow. This time he tried to avoid stepping in puddles. “Well I guess this is your destination Sir”
“Why thank you… Here’s a tip”
“No sir, I could never take a tip. I was only doing a good turn daily.”
Then as quickly as the boy had appeared in front of Boyce, the unknown scout was gone.”

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So…

I have been really busy with school work lately so don’t expect too much high quality journalism for the time being. I haven’t really done any programming lately so don’t expect any high quality updates either. But I have been messing around in Linux. I might write a Linux article soon. I might actually have some time this weekend to sit down and write for fun. Also I just wanted to share this cool link. I just installed Emacs on my flash drive portably. You can find it here.

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Twitathon

I just wanted to announce a new addition to the family of scripts I have written recently. It is called Twitathon, and is a Python written Twitter client. You can find it at http://sourceforge.net/p/twitathon/. Please use it and help me make it the best CLI Twitter client around.

FAQS:

1. What are the requirements?

You need the Tweepy python module installed it can be found on github. Preferably running Linux or OSX.

2. How Do I Get It To Work?

Simply download the Oauth.py script run it and paste the variables it returns into the twitathon.py script. Now you are ready to go. Then to actually use it you just write (python twitathon.py “your message here”) in the terminal and it will be automatically posted to Twitter.

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Make Emacs Open Fullscreen All the Time

I was having problems with Emacs loading half off my desktop when I opened it so I googled around the internet(z) and I found this code:

(defun toggle-fullscreen ()
(interactive)
(x-send-client-message nil 0 nil “_NET_WM_STATE” 32
‘(2 “_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT” 0))
(x-send-client-message nil 0 nil “_NET_WM_STATE” 32
‘(2 “_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ” 0))
)
(toggle-fullscreen)

Originally in ubuntu forum topic.

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