On my continuing Mission To Restore RSS Sanity where feeds have become variously; perfunctorily truncated, plastered with ads, embedded with comments and spammed with links, I have run into Full Text RSS Feed Builder. You plug in a website and it spits out your new full text RSS feed link. In my tests it made a decent Ars Techinca [...]
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Vista Explorer Better Than Win 7, How Can It Be?
February 27th, 2011 
justinSomehow Microsoft managed to screw up one decent feature they had in Vista when making Windows 7. In windows explorer you could freeze the favorites pane in the top left of the window, i.e. lock them on-screen at the top of the navigation pane. This was extremely handy for moving files around from download folders [...]
Windows 7 Suffers From Severe Lack of Polish
February 4th, 2011 justinI’ve only been running Win 7 for a couple days now and the list of oversights keeps growing. Might as well keep a running list: How do I pin a config file (which launches a program) to the taskbar? You can’t. Only programs can be pinned, everything else must go in the jumplist to that [...]
Remove Comments From Slashdot RSS Feed
January 29th, 2011 justinTrying to scroll though a Slashdot RSS feed on the mobile version of Google Reader is brutal. Instead of the scrollbox of article comments you see in the full version of Reader, every comment is embedded into the feed on an iPhone. So to get to the next story you have to swipe and swipe [...]
