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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Readers and Gadgets

Screenshot application of google readerImage via Wikipedia


Go to Google. Notice the categories on the upper left. Click on More. 11 categories listed and Even More. Impressive !
I integrated their desktop on Windows XP a few years back - on an 1800+ I think. Really nice...but slow. Privacy ? What's that ?

Google Reader is sharable! Set up RSS feeds.
Google Reader is your new watercooler.

Google Search features

iGoogle is addictive. Again you can set up RSS feeds, customize the decor,add pages...things also available on Netvibes and Pageflakes. Since they are run by different people - you have a wider variety of recommendations. I notice the bathing beauties on iGoogle tend to have clear clickjacking warnings on them from time to time coming up from the NoScript Firefox Add On.
Someone who is running Linux because his computer loaded a Trojan spambot and was so outraged he dumped Windows altogether tends to note such things. Actually, I can't even load gif images on this machine. If you check out their characteristics, you may not wish to either.

You might ease back on installing toolbars such as Google Toolbar. They tend to eat up screen space, clash with programs, and be hard to unistall.
I'm wary of desktop programs which bypass the browser for the same reasons. At least with browser programs you get to change the View so that different toolbars aren't always displayed - if you've put them on! - and can add buttons using Drag and Drop to your Bookmarks toolbar. You can easily cut checked options down to Tab and Address to maximize screen space.
Check available Add Ons for reviews and clustered applications which will give you a drop-down menu rather than adding a number of buttons. Too many tricks added and running together are bad news for your system - and can freeze it up by using too many resources and even clashing. If funky things are happening on your system - you may have been too greedy.

I'm referring to the display on Mozilla's Firefox here. It's installed in the free Open Source Ubuntu Linux operating system I had installed after malware made it past my defences for Windows XP: antivirus, mechanical trap on e-mail and more. Then again - how many people go to so many strange locations ?

Wubi  *- Ubutu installer for Windows users

* Meant as a temporary installation to try Ubuntu. On an upgrade I lost the ability to access the program from the boot menu !


News feeds from the BBC 

50 free Linux alternatives to popular M$ applications

HP Pavilion dv1597ea + Ubuntu 6.06 ß1 (FLICK)R...Image by jcraveiro via Flickr
Linux App Finder

13 Blackberry apps for the social networker

50 Twitter tools for designers and developers

Tinker : Follow Twitter conversations

Lifehacker's Firefox Add On Packs

I have a number of E-mail accounts, of course. Opera's free service was so good I eventually subscribed for the paid subscription upgrade. BTW : I'm thrifty.

Opit's LinkFest! at the Opera Community was a bit of a revelation. It was my first real social network after years of just commenting on blogs. Now, of course I scarcely have time to stay current with all my online activities. When I started Oldephartteintraining on WordPress years ago blogging was like shouting down a well ; response was scarce. That I rather expected, though. I wasn't running a chatroom but a resource centre which didn't call for constant monitoring : though there are loyal fans who follow my news roundups. I came to Opera because I was running what was once a rather obscure paid browser which was picked up by Google and made freeware - which I have used for years.

Opera tries to unite users across browsers

Opera Link Synchronize Bookmarks,Custom Search and History across Different Computers

Dropbox
Recommended by Dr. John v. Kampen of My Hiding Place, where he blogs about Ubuntu and physics ( especially near space ) and other science news

List of Web Browsers

Startpage Search Engine 

Care 2 E-cards

BelArc Adviser Proprietary Windows Freeware

A V G Antivirus

Avast Antivirus

You cannot use more than one AntiVirus at a time without conflict which will disable them - nor Firewalls either, for that matter.

HowTo Tech Tips

Anti-Malware HowTo

MalwareBytes AntiMalware

Web of Trust Malware Warning Co-Op : Firefox PlugIn

KeyScrambler Personal Free Version of Proprietary Program

TrueCrypt : Hidden Operating System

How Surfers can protect private info

Learning Tools Directory

Alesti : Online RSS Reader

Discover : social news aggregator

Bookmark List

Add This! Bookmarking and Sharing

Faves Social Bookmarking

Global Internet Freedom Consortium 

backtype : Find, follow and share comments

CoComment Tracks and monitors threads on which you comment. Can slow surfing.

CommentLuv Wordpress PlugIn


FriendFeed What your friends are surfing

Friend Connect

extreMe Tracking

FeedJit! Live traffic feed and other widgets

Twingley Blog Search

PDF Me Not : Online viewer or Firefox Extension

List of aggregators


Feb 2010  Dr John v. Kampen suggested OSINT
Open Source Intelligence Internet Training

Journalists' Toolkit
A training site for multimedia and online journalists
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