Tuesday, July 27, 2004

And here's (GIVE LINK FOR DOWNLOAD AS WELL AS A READOUT OF THE LIST HERE) the blawg list I promised to California Lawyer TECH readers. HOW TO IMPORT IT INTO YOUR OWN NEWSFEED READER. 9:25:49 PM

My personal, private, unexpurgated list (LINK HERE) of  newsfeeds (which I now read mostly within Outlook by using NewsGator (www.newsgator.com)). I subscribe to way too many, but am slowly getting a grip on my greed (but I'm not a nattering nabob of negativity, at least) and deleting all but the essential ones. The format this list is in is immediately importable into any self-respecting newsfeed reader. If you don't want one that becomes just another mailbox in your Outlook email navigation bar (that vertical thing usually on the left), my favorite stand-alone feed reader is Bradbury Software's elegant and powerful FeedDemon. By the way, NewsGator has nothing to do with Gator, "...a software product that can automatically fill in passwords and other form-elements on Web pages. But its main purpose is to load an advertising spyware module called OfferCompanion, which displays pop-up ads when visiting some Web sites. Gator boasts that since it's software is always running, it can spam users with "Special Offers" and other ads anywhere they go--even competitors' sites--with remarkable targeting capabilities, since it can spy on what sites the user is visiting." This quote comes from a site with a wonderful name: Counterexploitation. Check it out. And, as long as we're discussing password and form-filler programs, Gator may be free, but, given the damage it does and the difficulty of removing it, it's terribly expensive. You want a powerful, efficient and effective form- and password-filler-inner, use Siber Systems free or paid versions of RoboForm (works on Internet Explorer and MyIE2, which was renamed Maxthon or something equally silly.) The cool thing about MyIE2 is the assemblage of plug-ins. With the plug-ins installed, MyIE2 does a whole lot more than Internet Explorer and, even though it sits atop IE, apparently doesn't pass along IE's great body of risks. READOUT SUBSCRIPTION LIST 9:22:58 PM