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Monthly Archives: October 2005

Google Reader

Google Reader is a new Google application. It’s an online feed reader. Naturally it understands RSS and Atom and probably some other formats I’m not aware of. It had a problem importing my OPML from Newsgator though. It only imported 5 of my 20 feeds. So I ended adding them one by one. Google Reader [...]

Squareness for PalmRevolt

Finally there is a possibility to change the look of Palm OS. PalmRevolt is the tool that enables you to do this. Naturally, I started creating a Squareness skin not long after discovering it. Creating skins for PalmRevolt is quite easy though there is no special tool with which it can be done. There are [...]

Find and Run Robot

Despite its name Find and Run Robot is a very nice tool. Conceptually it’s the same as AppRocket, Spotlight on Mac OSX or the original Launchbar. It’s a new way of launching applications. You bring it up with Alt+Space and start typing. The characters you’re typing appear in a text field and below the text [...]

The Baroque Cycle

I finally finished reading “The Baroque Cycle” a trilogy by Neall Stephenson consisting of the three books “Quicksilver”, “Confusion” and “The System of the World”. The printed editions of those books together fill more than 2700 pages. It took me 1 1/2 years to read the books, but it was worth reading. The story takes [...]