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AlternaGeek Episode 12: Browsers & RSS Readers

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AlternaGeek.com Podcast, Episode 12 for the week of August 27h, 2007
Featuring Linuxchic, Code Ninja and TechMonkey.

We are talking browsers and RSS feed readers this episode. On the browser front we go over Firefox (and our feelings of latest releases, flakiness and Flash), Opera (with it’s widgety goodness), Flock (social networking integration), Safari, Konqueror, w3m, lynx, links, Camino and Epiphany.  Linuxchic issued a little homework assignment to get the boys testing out RSS feed reader software. We discuss what we liked and what we didn’t on a roundup of apps that include: Thunderbird, Liferea, Straw, BottomFeeder, Wizz RSS, Akregator,  Snownews, Shrook, Newsfire, Outlook 2007 and Anothr RSS.

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AlternaGeek Episode 12: Browsers & RSS Readers

  • Jason | September 5th, 2007 at 7:49 am

    You guys can’t even serve your own feeds with the correct content type, so how are we supposed to take your critique of feed readers seriously?

  • techmonkey | September 5th, 2007 at 9:07 am

    Thanks for your comment. It would be helpful if you could let us know what issue you have encountered with our feeds. We have many listeners that have subscribed to our feeds and we have not heard of any issues thus far. Please provide a little more detail and we will gladly look into this for you.

  • http://velocitywebdev.myopenid.com/ | September 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm

    Hmm, feeds seem to work fine for me…I must be doing something wrong :-(

  • linuxchic | September 6th, 2007 at 10:05 pm

    I am going to assume the comment was directed at the way WordPress sets content type to text/xml rather than application/rss+xml. Typically this doesn’t cause an issue for most readers. Perhaps you should put in a request to the WordPress developers to have this default changed in future releases as this would affect all WordPress users. Additionally, if you are browsing the content type of the feeds, you have knowledge of the workings of RSS. Perhaps next time you could offer suggestions rather than a hit and run.

  • eol | September 9th, 2007 at 1:59 am

    Sage is also a neat “plugin” for FF. I used it before I found Google Reader :)

    Only drawback I remember it doesnt’t store read/unread markings - but this might have changed in the current version.

    Good podcast as usual - Alternageek is in my weeks podcast list. It’s fun having a podcast which one could follow since day #1.