I haven’t been very happy with using rss2email as my RSS aggregator. My setup is overly complicated. I had to remove a few feeds that it always had problems with. I never see updates from my own RSS 2.0 feed. For some feeds it always sends me all items.
And rss2email sends plain-text emails. Ordinarily […]
Archive for February, 2003
Changing Aggregators, Again
28Feb03After seeing this story today about the Anatomy of a mobile device user, a survey conducted by AvantGo, I realized that I hadn’t thought of them in a while in the new context of weblogging. They’re the original aggregator! Before I knew the word aggregator, I knew what AvantGo was! My wife still uses their […]
The Spam Files
26Feb03The Spam Files is a weblog about spam.
Cheap Networked Webcam
25Feb03The Veo Observer is a $200 Networked webcam with audio and Pan-and-Tilt. Add a motion detector for $30.
The Palm Tungsten W has finally shown up at Palm’s online store, with an estimated ship date of 2/28. It’s $549, there’s a $50 rebate with activation of an AT&T Wireless Internet plan, and there’s a note: “Currently the Palm Tungsten W Handheld can only be activated with AT&T Wireless Service Plans. SIM cards from […]
Push-to-Shut Up
25Feb03It seems like everyone wants to clone Nextel’s Direct Connect. The aspiring copycats are basing their versions on VOIP, theoretically allowing cross-carrier and cross-continent communications, but otherwise it’s the same old crap.
I hate Direct Connect, it forces users to choose between instant interuptions from loud-as-hell voices or the traditional beeping / vibrating followed by “I’m […]
Sprint Rebate
25Feb03Through the end of March, Sprint is offering a $100 rebate on the Handspring Treo 300, Samsung SPH-i330, and Toshiba 2032.
Spam Notes
25Feb03Spam Assassin 2.50 is out, now with Bayesian filtering based on techniques from Paul Graham, Graham Robinson, and SpamBayes. What exactly that means, I have no clue.
POPFile received a fabulous review from Internet Week. It’s also made the PricelessWare list, “The best of the best in Windows Freeware, as determined by the readers of alt.comp.freeware.”
Kevin […]
