Brent is brilliant.
 As are some of his friends, like Bryan Bell (blogrolled) who designed the icon and badge for NetNewsWire, as well as the original template for this log, which I have tampered around with considerably since.
Several of my visitors have yet to work out that the little orange XML button in the "round here" section to the right opens a messy-looking page with a URL at the top like this: http://radio.weblogs.com/0120356/rss.xml
There's no need to get technical. It suffices to use simply that link with the "/rss.xml" feed at the end to "subscribe" to this blog in a news reader.
 All week, I've been using Brent's (blogrolled: "inessential") marvellous NetNewsWire in the 1.0.3 beta, but it quietly slipped out of beta yesterday, going by the version number.
Countless things have been fixed. The same goes for the free NNNLite, which is not as light as all that. It gets the most extensive list of reported changes at VersionTracker (where as I write, the new paying version has yet to show up).
The coolest idea by far is a new ability to switch into "combined view". As shown here, on many weblogs, you now get headlines plus text in one place. With pushing 800 unread items to sift through among many subscriptions, this cuts the time taken substantially.
Kudos, Brent. I've already learned to speed-read NNN, but what an improvement!
Verbose as I am, I guess that for my own next clever trick, I should learn how to do as some others can and put the opening part of any entry on my home page, with the option to click and read on, so that each "article" no longer comes up in full here or in the combined view mode in NNN.
zzz
 Where I pinched this little statement from now escapes me. For me, it's long since done -- apart from a copy kept on a Mac OS 9 partition just to check out any changes I make learning HTML.
But if you use Windows and are happy with Internet Explorer, you might be interested in the freeware Avant. This purports to be the "fastest ... on earth" and, "an upgrade to Internet Explorer. Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser," i.e. IE with tabs.
It certainly seems worth checking out. The site has a busy forum and offers "skins", if you want to change the look of Avant/IE.
This I got from Brendan, a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, who posted about Avant on his System.out.Blog. Brendan doesn't like IE, so his link was a kind thought.
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