09.29.06

Google Reader

Posted in Software at 9:50 am by Željko Filipin

Are you in search for good feed reader? I am. I just need something that will work with all feeds I find (not so trivial), that will import my feeds from another reader (who likes to add feeds by hand?) and that looks like e-mail client (do you also find that feeds are like e-mail?).

Also, I prefer web applications. After all, I am a tester, I do strange things to my computer, so I like my data to be somewhere else. For example, all my e-mail is at Gmail.

For a while, I used SharpReader. It worked pretty well (thought it had problems with some feeds), but it is desktop application.

Then I switched to Bloglines. It has only one problem. When you click at feed that has two or more unread items, it marks all posts as read. I just do not want that.

I have tried Yahoo! Mail Beta. Looks good, but it is not usable yet. I like the idea of e-mail and feed reader at one place.

Finally, Google Reader is updated. Old reader was really unusable. The new one looks good. I will try it for a few days and decide should I switch to it.

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09.25.06

Tools

Posted in Software at 2:46 pm by Željko Filipin

My machine got pretty slow. Maybe I will reinstall Windows, or just uninstall everything I do not use and defragment discs. I will start with writing down all software that I use, just in case something goes wrong.

operating system
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
anti-malware
- AVG Professional Single Edition
- Windows Defender
browser
e-mail client
- Gmail (also messenger)
- Outlook Express
- Yahoo! Mail
feed reader
- Bloglines
- Google Reader
- iTunes – podcasting (also media player and internet radio)
integrated development environment (IDE)
Ruby – programming language
- Watir – testing tool
- TMail – email handling library
- REXML – XML processor
version control
- Subversion
- TortoiseSVN
bug tracking
- FogBugz
- Unfuddle
- JIRA
media player
- Windows Media player
- iTunes (also internet radio and feed reader)
- Adobe Flash Player
- Shockwave Player
- QuickTime
- Google Video Player
- VLC
- Quick time alternative
- Real alternative
archiver
- WinRar
- 7 Z ip
internet radio
- iTunes (also media player and feed reader)
- Classic Rock Station at LAUNCHcast Radio (Yahoo)
- Virgin Radio Classic Rock
edit pictures
text editor
- Word
- Notepad2
- Notepad
tutorial and presentation creation
- Power Point
- Wink
messenger
- Windows Live Messenger
- Gmail (also e-mail client)
pdf reader
- Foxit Reader
- Adobe Reader
blogging software
- WordPress
- Blogger
dictionary

EH.WEB – English Croatian
Dictionary.com – English

Google – search engine

Google Analytics – how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site

Outlook – calendar

Excel – spreadsheet program

Hrvatski SpellChecker za MS Office 97/2000/XP/2003 – Croatian spell checker

.NET Framework (1.1, 2.0) – the tools you need to create .NET Framework applications for Windows

Microsoft Calculator – calculator

CmdHere.exe – adds an “Open Command Window Here” context menu option on file system folders

CruiseControl.NET – continuous integration

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Cute CD DVD Burner – DVD burner

Google Desktop Search – search desktop

WinMerge – text file comparison

TraceTool – trace tool

Z AR – data recovery

Audacity – audio editor and recorder

NetLimiter – monitor internet traffic

Gmaps Pedometer – pedometer

drivers

Mouse Driver
Printer Driver

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09.20.06

Podcasts

Posted in Podcasts at 1:03 pm by Željko Filipin

I have recently got mp3 player and I started listening to podcasts. So far I have listened all of QA Podcast and HanselMinutes.

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