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Creating a Feed Reading Matrix

Published October 24, 2007 | By admin

How you view your feeds depends on what you want them to do for you. I have used so many feed readers that did not agree with me. The first one I stuck with for a little while was Rojo, because at the time it was the only one that would sort feed items by date. Other feed readers would sort specific feeds by date, but I wanted the newest post out of all the feeds to float to the top and then on to the next newest item. I have about 600 feeds I subscribe to and no time to click each feed to find out if there were new posts. Read more... (615 words, estimated 2:28 mins reading time)

Posted in Blogging, Firefox, Google Custom Search Engines | Tagged feed readers, feed ticker, Feeds, Firefox, firefox livemarks, firefox opml import, google cse, Google Custom Search Engines, google toolbar, livemarks, opml, rss feed ticker | Leave a comment

Toolbarqueries.google.com Incorrect Security Certificate.

Published August 23, 2007 | By admin

Every once in a while, ever since the last Firefox update, I have been getting a security certificate mismatch error from Firefox. Not sure if this is an issue with Firefox or with Google or with the Google toolbar. I am also not sure why it occurs randomly. And since it happens when I open a new tab and not with searches from the Google toolbar, why it occurs at all. And if Google is only supposed to be spying on me when I search since I have the "Send usage statistics to Google" box unchecked, does this mean that this option is not really an option? Read more... (190 words, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Posted in Firefox, Google | Tagged Firefox, google toolbar, security-certificate | 10 Comments