I previously blogged about Birdsoft Battery Watch as a good status bar battery monitor for the Pocket PC platform. After some use though I realized it is not exactly optimal, it’s very prone to being obscured by other applications and sometimes just dies on its own.
Help is at hand with GSBatmonp (Authors Page) which seems to be much nicer than the Bird Soft solution. Give it a go.
In my previous post about 5 minutes ago I slagged off feedster.com and I wondered now if it is a Firefox thing or a Feedster thing.
So I tried a few searches with Safari, it worked better actually, nice and quick even with obscure terms which I thought wouldn’t be cached, but after a while this happened.
I have in the past been pretty hard on Feedster and I don’t like just beating someone down if I know they are really trying hard. So every now and then I give them another go because I think the service they provide will be a useful one and because the major search engines doesn’t seem to be jumping on the feed search bandwagon.
So today I thought I’d give them a go, I did 4 things:
1) Added a search into NetNewsWire, this just gave me no results, but I can’t be sure this isn’t the fault of NetNewsWire so no problem there.
2) I went to the actual page and searched for ‘pienaar’ halfway through rendering the page I got an error from Mozilla.
3) I searched for ‘pienaar’ again, it worked a charm.
4) After some time I searched for ‘apple’ and again, halfway through I got an error. Screenshot below.
Is this a problem with Firefox on the Apple? I am not sure, but I do recall getting this error before on my Windows machine too.
As before I am posting here when I unsubscribe from feeds. I do not bother mentioning ones that just stop updating etc, thats just the normal life cycle, some annoy me though and force me to unsubscribe.
As I mentioned before I understand why people put ads into RSS feeds, and I do not mind them in full text feeds. A very good example of good ads would be those found in the feeds from boingboing.
Now to todays offenders, the fine people from Security Focus have started putting ads into their feeds, their feeds contain like a 1 or 2 line summary of the article and does not even usually contain a very usable clickable link to the full story. Now though as if that isn’t stupid enough they also include a text ad that by my rough estimate is about 5 times as big as the actual readable text in the feed. Get Real people, would you watch TV if the advertisements lasted for 45 minutes and the program for 15?
I hope you lot get a clue soon, but I don’t think I’ll be rushing to subscribe to any of your feeds again soon.
I have not been using my pocket pc for a long time now, since I started using Sunbird because no way exist to sync the two.
Over the weekend I thought I’d have another troll through the net and came across two good things.
The first is a repository of free Pocket PC software, well worth a look.
The 2nd is a promising one way syncing system for ics files -> Pocket Outlook. It is called KCal and can take ics files and replace all your existing calendar entries with what is in the ics file.
So this is good if you do all your entering of events in Sunbird and just need a mobile copy of it, no syncing back to Sunbird. This is a good start and probably pretty much exactly what I need.
I did some testing, it works ok for non recurring events but it has a problem with recurring events. I sent the author some feedback on this and he already responded that he will fix this in the next release. I also asked if it were possible to support loading more than one ics file at sync time.
Shutterbug has a nice article about photoblogs, not much news there for people who are already into blogging but a nice article with some good links.
I’ve been thinking of doing my own photoblog for a while now, maybe one day I will get off my back side and bother with movable type templates again to put one together, maybe even try the new MT as well while I am at it.
