Showing posts with label download. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 16 September 2008

streams of joy

"This is the app that lets me drink straight from the Internet firehose, and I couldn't live without it." - Cory Doctorow [Boing Boing]

Having been consistently irritated by the way I get at all the RSS feeds I like to follow, I threw in the towel with all previous attempts at a fulfilling relationship today and went a-hunting. And with immense success. Was playing with Flock for a while and its built-in reader, which I still reckon is a nice concept if a bit messy. I also could never find myself enamoured with web-based readers, such as Google Reader which Dave only yesterday tried to rope me into.

Happiness, it turns out, appears to come in the form of the frankly-gorgeous NewsNetWire, a free Mac stand-alone utility, that already I find myself horrendously attracted to. It's sleek, it's slimline, and more importantly, it works. Really, really well. Download it now and pack all others in, children, the king of readers/aggregators has landed and I can't believe I only came across it today.

It also has an iPhone version, and yes, some plug-ins for Outlook etc. so that those backward Windows users can join in to. Check out the selection here. Then do yourself a favour and download the lot.

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Monday, 24 March 2008

holding down my hands


Mr Andrew Good (of the short-lived Andy Good Experience - joke) has released three tracks of an EP online through the Arise Lurgan website. And they are bloomin' marvellous. So stop whatever you're doing right now until you have clicked to them here (go to the 'Amplify" section) downloaded and listened to the lot. I can seriously declare that Holding Down My Hands may be my favourite song of the year so far.

(But then I don't listen to the radio much!)

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