ok…now I’m an electrical engineer and know alot of electrical engineers, but this video totally got me. I had to watch it a few times before I came to the ultimate conclusion that this is a joke. At least, I’m fairly sure this is a joke. If it’s serious, however, then I need to go back to school.
My growing list of RSS feeds is quickly becoming quite difficult to manage. Luckily, I use Firefox. With some simple organizing, I found a pretty simple way to manage and navigate through all my current feeds without ever leaving my browser’s toolbar. With this method of feed reading, you can quickly browse through the days news without even logging into Bloglines.
First open your Firefox browser (note: for this article I will be using version 1.5.0.6) and make sure you have your bookmarks toolbar enabled. (right click on the top toolbar and make sure there is a check mark next to the ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’ item.)
Next, create a new category folder on your bookmarks toolbar. Right click on the toolbar –> new folder — > left-click –> choose a name for this folder depending on the feed category you want to have (i.e. Tech, News, Ted Stephens, etc.). Then click ‘OK’. You can repeat this step to add all the categories that you will need.
Once you have enough categories to get you started, go to the ‘Bookmarks’ tab on the top toolbar and select ‘Manage Bookmarks’. Within this window, you can locate your category subfolders and drag them into a master folder that I called ‘Feeds’ (this should also be created within the bookmarks toolbar).
Now find your feeds. The easiest way I have found to do this is to actually go to the sites that I want to subscribe to, left-click on the little orange feed logo on the right side of the address field, and then select the format of the feed you want. A Firefox popup window should appear asking you where you want to place the feed or ‘Live Bookmark’. When you see this, click the small button on the right of the window and navigate to the appropriate category folder for this feed.
When you’re all set, you can easily browse through all your feed headlines in a snap by navigating through the dropdown menus. While I’m not giving up my Bloglines account just yet, I am enjoying the convenience of having all my news within one easily accessed folder.
The Mario themed tube shirts have finally arrived. Thanks to all the zerosign readers that pre-ordered and to the many more that supplied helpful comments. The great guys at Mammoth Printshop totally delivered on these quality shirts. If I ever feel the need to put another idea on a t-shirt, I’ll definitely be using them again. Also, to whoever is interested, I still have a few handfulls of shirts left. No more pre-orders; these babies are here and waiting to be shipped out. Again thanks to all the ones that already ordered one; your shirt is in the mail now.
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