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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Reminder: WidgetBucks Rolling Out New Ad Type - SendMeRSS

As indicated in a recent newsletter to publishers, WidgetBucks publishers should soon begin seeing an increase in display CPM rates due to the introduction of pop-under ads. These are ads that...

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

AllGreenWedding.com - Green Wedding Gift Registry - SendMeRSS


What it does

As the "Green" movement gains strength all over the world, it continues to expand into new sectors. Now, AllGreenWedding.com looks to tap into the movement by offering brides and grooms-to-be with a way to make their gift registry more environmentally friendly. Having gifts shipped cross-country wastes a lot of fuel and packaging materials, so a key feature of AllGreenWedding.com's registries is that wedding guests can choose a specific gift but have AllGreenWedding send the newlyweds a check for the item's price, so that it can be bought locally. A couple can also choose to register their favorite environmental charities, giving guests the option of making a donation in lieu of giving a wedding gift. With the partial-purchase program, couples can register for expensive gifts and their guests can opt to buy just a portion of it.

In their own words

"Why waste energy getting gifts delivered cross country. Use our cash gift feature to save energy and wasteful packaging. We'll send you a check and you can pick up the gift locally. Or if you are so inclined, register a donation to your favorite charity and send them the contribution collected."

Why it might be a killer

Green conscious brides and grooms-to-be will surely take a liking to this site. Not only does it offer the environmentally conscious options like buying gifts locally, but All Green Wedding also features a lot of retailers known for being environmentally friendly. The partial-purchase program is useful beyond any environmental factors, since it will help couples to register for gifts too expensive to expect one guest to purchase.

Some questions

Are there already too many other sites offering a very similar service? Are some guests going to resist the idea of sending money or a check to a couple, or would they rather give a physical gift?

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Hotel Rooms By Design - SendMeRSS

How the hospitality crowd in Chicago is differentiating its "lifestyle" inns through smart design and sophisticated amenities

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McDonald's Specialty Coffee Kick - SendMeRSS

Jan Fields is the confident dynamo behind McDonald's push into specialty coffees. She says it's ready

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Facebook's Big Facelift - SendMeRSS

The social networking site's coming redesign will be marked by a cleaner, more organized look to appeal to its vastly bigger, more diverse user base

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Verizon Snubs Google's Platform - SendMeRSS

The cellular giant is throwing its weight behind the Linux-based LiMo operating system, instead of Google's Android, for its mobile phones

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Gmail Addons Embeds Any Webapp in Gmail [Featured Greasemonkey User Script] - SendMeRSS


Firefox with Greasemonkey: The Gmail Addons Greasemonkey script embeds any page you specify inside Gmail's interface. By default, it comes with Google Calendar and the Google Talk gadget. (If this sounds familiar, it is—Gmail Addons is an update to the previously mentioned Enhance Gmail script.) Add any other web pages to Gmail by following the directions on the script homepage. If you're willing to dig into manually editing the script, Gmail Addons can embed Google Reader, Notebook, Docs, Remember the Milk, or virtually any other web page you'd like next to or below your inbox. Gmail Addons is free, requires the Greasemonkey extension to run.


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User comment: Comment from cbiggins

Nice one. This will help me a lot.

cbiggins

User comment: Comment from Mortimer

@robmcbell: Greasemonkey works fine with ff3b5

Mortimer

User comment: Comment from Mortimer

This really look like a limited version of the Split Browser Firefox add-on.

It can split any browser window in any number of panels. Not limited to gmail.

Mortimer

is it really that difficult to just make these things work in ff3b5? ff3 i await your joyous arrival.

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Commercial Games Gone Freeware [Saving Money] - SendMeRSS

Looking to do some PC gaming but the price tag of commercial games conflicting with your money-saving goals? Check out Wikipedia's list of commercial games released as freeware. It's bound to be a bit hit-or-miss, but with games released as recently as 2008, it may be worth a look. [via]


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User comment: Comment from Ozeki

You people should check out Abandonia too. Its not freeware per says. It more about games that have been "abandoned".

These are the orphans of the game industry:

[www.abandonia.com]

Also check out Abandonia Reloaded. Its about remakes of old games:

[www.reloaded.org]

Ozeki

User comment: Comment from kli6891

^^ Same here. Home of the Underdogs is a great site.

kli6891

The best site I ever found for free games, and those commercial games which transcended into freeware is Home of the Underdogs. They have an amazing collection of games going back all the way to 1979! They also have great reviews and their Hall of Belated Fame is well worth a look.

Sadly it doesn't look like the site has been updated since the beginning of 2006, but it's still a great place to get those vintage classics you never thought you'd see again.

charlie13

User comment: Comment from Amarth

Also, if you can get your hand on Psychonauts, seriously, do it. I'm currently playing it (paid for it on Steam about 2 weeks before I noticed it was for free on Gametap) and it is extremely fun. The game was created by Tim Schafer, who was also responsible for the first two Monkey Islands, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. Basically, worship this man, or else play his games and then worship him.

Amarth

User comment: Comment from Amarth

Also worth a mention: Liberated games at [liberatedgames.com]

Reccomendations from the WP page:
Abe Lincoln Must Die!
Beneath A Steel Sky
Wolfenstein: ET
Marathon (although I'm not sure how it works on recent OSes)
Star Control 2 (featuring THE ULTIMATE EVIL!!)
Warzone 2100

And there's a few classics between them (C&C, Ground Control, One Must Fall, ...) that those interested in games should try, but they're a bit outdated by now.

Have fun.

Amarth

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Thunderbird 3 Gets Tabs [Alpha] - SendMeRSS

The first alpha release Thunderbird 3 (for extremely early adopters) is now available, and it's got tabs! T-bird 3 can open several messages in tabs rather than popping new windows—great news for your clean desktop.


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I could see tabs being useful if I wanted to have, say, a mailbox tab, a lightning tab, and an IM tab. Something like that.

Either way, good to have some evidence that somebody is still working on T-bird...

tonyshangrila

Hmm, I guess it's nice to have, but I don't get the tabs thing. I haven't double-clicked on a message since 1998. Preview pane FTW!

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ReadAir Brings Google Reader to Your Desktop [Featured Download] - SendMeRSS


Windows/Mac/Linux (Adobe AIR): Free, open source application ReadAir syncs your Google Reader feeds to the comfort of your desktop. ReadAir—whose three-pane interface looks and feels much more like a desktop newsreader than Reader—also retains a lot of Google Reader features, like starring items and adding and tagging feeds. The biggest missing feature in ReadAir is its lack of keyboard shortcuts; you won't be j/k-ing your way through your unread items in ReadAir the same way you can on the web—at least not in this version. That said, the app's to-do list includes offline mode and keyboard shortcuts, so if you'd prefer Reader had that desktop look and feel plus a killer web interface when you need it, ReadAir is a great option. ReadAir is free, all platforms, requires Adobe AIR. Thanks StevieB!


Link - Adam Pash - Wed, 14 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT - Feed (45 subs)

Maybe it's just cynical old me but what's the point of having this if you use the web version of Google Reader? Don't they both pretty much accomplish the same thing?

MarkONeill

User comment: Comment from teatime

Once again Lifehacker brings you the latest news on the most wasteful software, from RAM "optimisers" for windows, executable torrents aka malware-a-go-go, and now a fat client offline RSS-Reader-Reader, that's right you can now read your RSS reader offline on an RSS reader.

teatime

User comment: Comment from guibom

On the topic of using Google Reader offline, I have a major problem with it. It doesn't seem to save the pictures of the feeds. You should be able to config this, and it would download the pictures to your HD.

guibom

@Sensai:

"And I had no idea that NetNewsWire was Mac only. It made me a little sad."

Don't be sad! Be excited! Just another reason to make you smile when you switch over! =)

Alicemagic

User comment: Comment from Sensai

Wow. I eat my words.

This RSS thing is really cool. For every bit of clunky that the GReader was, this is much more streamlined and a lot more...I dunno, accessable.

I like this ReadAir a lot. Definitely going to keep it around.

Any other suggestions for RSS readers? I've tried GReader (which I guess I'm stuck using for ReadAir, but only in the background) and Opera's built in Feeds (which I discovered completely on accident).

And I had no idea that NetNewsWire was Mac only. It made me a little sad.

Sensai

User comment: Comment from f0vela

I know that this is a google reader post, but searching for AIR apps I found muxmaster.

It's a really good front end for the muxtape.com using coverflow for previewing tapes.

[dougmccune.com]

f0vela

User comment: Comment from Sensai

Well, trying Google Reader right now...and it's ok. It's really cluttered. It's ok...not nearly as good as it's made out to be.

Additionally, I couldn't even get ReadAir to work. I load it up and have it synced with my GReader account, but no dice. I'll attempt to uninstall/clean up/reinstall...but doesn't look like this is gonna cut it.

I suppose I'll try NetNewsWire next.

Sensai

User comment: Comment from natenovs

so, i installed it and it was pretty cool. went to uninstall it and it failed. had to delete it myself.

the program was really nice and worked well, i'm just really suspicious of AIR

natenovs

I don't know, with NetNewsWire being free, is there really a good reason to use anything else? My search says no. NNW syncs between multiple computers, has a super stable, fast, customizable interface, and doesn't require installing system level Adobe stuff. The only advantage I can see to using a GReader based program is that if you're on a computer that's not yours you could access the web version. That might be important to some people.

jollyllama

It looks near-identical to NetNewsWire. A little more rough and not as pretty but the layout is basically the same. I just discovered NNW and have fallen in love with it. Not only do you have a very smooth desktop app, but it automatically syncs with Newsgator so your feeds can be accessed from any Internet-connected computer.

nathangimpel

User comment: Comment from xious

I really liked this application. However, some of the feeds I subscribe to don't give you the entire post. So you have to go to the website to view it. Better GReader has the Preview option which allows you to open the web page right in Google Reader. I've gotten so use to using that option that it's hard to read all my feeds without it. Other than that, I really like ReadAir. Would recommend it for a desktop reader.

xious

I just installed this and I'm pretty impressed with the GUI and it sort of reminds me of iTunes. Compared to FeedDemon which uses 60K of memory, this only uses under 50K. The best part is, its integration with Google Reader. This is better than what I expected.

the menace

For those that try it, is it worth breaking my self-imposed "No installing Adobe products if at all avoidable" policy? Does this bog things down as bad as Reader does?

StrangeTikiGod

User comment: Comment from SA

I said in the previous post that I hadn't used any other reader except GReader but I've always wanted to try a desktop one. Sometimes you just don't feel like going online. I'm definitely going to give this a try.

SA

User comment: Comment from eroq

I use Google Reader every day but it hurts my eyes, literally. All that blue on white is terrible. The interface is horribly ugly. This, at least, starts to address the aesthetics of reading and I will probably check it out. Is there a setup tutorial or something? What is up with all this Adobe Air stuff???

eroq

@Nu Digi: I might use this just because it saves time. Now, if it's a ram hog, than forget about this.

TheManator

User comment: Comment from HMGS

@Sensai: This AIR app may be worth trying but get youself the real Goolge Reader as well. Your internets browsing will never, ever, ever be the same. I can't image surfing the web without one. Streamlining information that is of interest to you is one of the better things to ever happen to the internet. Just do yourself a favor and try a few RSS readers out.

HMGS

User comment: Comment from Nu Digi

@tasselhoff76: You can use the offline mode. This may sounds redundant, but the guy who coding it is only doing it for the heck of it.

But I think one advantage is of course the fact that you don't have to install Gears (what you need to get it offline).

@Sensai: Er... Google Reader has the loudest members. You might start a fire you can't put out, dude.

Nu Digi

User comment: Comment from adumbguy

Umm ... isn't the whole point of Google Reader the fact that it doesn't tie you down to one desktop?

adumbguy

User comment: Comment from Sensai

OK, I'm tired of seeing all the stories about RSS readers and feeds. I'm going to try it and this is going to be my first reader.

Any other suggestions? I'm jumping on the bandwagon that has the loudest members.

Sensai

Couldn't you just use the Google Reader Offline mode? I have never tried it, but I am assuming it works.

tasselhoff76

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