What's your RSS list?

[Kody]

Out of sheer boredom, curiosity and of course wanting to learn more, what websites are you subscribed to via RSS, or check often?

Mine is:
www.io9.com
www.geeksaresexy.net
www.lifehacker.com
Outpost Gallifrey's News Feed
Doctor Who Online News Feed

And due to Danny's last post, I just added www.downloadsquad.com as well.

[Danny Stewart]

Mine is a bit more extensive than yours, Kody.

Apple
AppleInsider
InsanelyMac
Mac OS X Hints
MacApper
MacRumors
Macworld
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Google
Google Blog
Google Blogoscoped

Technology
Download Squad
Engadget
Joystiq
Lifehacker

Music
Create Digital Music
Music Thing
Synthtopia

TV Shows
BBC Doctor Who
Doctor Who Online
GateWorld
MyTVRSS
Outpost Gallifrey
Trek Movie Report
TrekToday

[MI7]

I don't really use feeds. I just look at websites as/when I need them or when I feel like it, really.

[Kody]

Wow, thanks, Danny.

Added a bunch of those to my RSS reader.

Originally Posted by MI7

I don't really use feeds. I just look at websites as/when I need them or when I feel like it, really.

Bah!

[Danny Stewart]

Originally Posted by MI7

I don't really use feeds. I just look at websites as/when I need them or when I feel like it, really.

To quote Kody, "Bah!"

Originally Posted by Kody

Wow, thanks, Danny.

Added a bunch of those to my RSS reader.

You're very welcome. Out of interest, what RSS reader do you use? I use Google Reader because I can access it from anywhere (including my iPhone, which is very important to me).

[Josef Kenny]

I don't use RSS. I don't understand how it works and I've never needed to use it.

[Recurring Villain]

Originally Posted by MI7

I don't really use feeds. I just look at websites as/when I need them or when I feel like it, really.

+1

[Kody]

Originally Posted by Danny Stewart

You're very welcome. Out of interest, what RSS reader do you use? I use Google Reader because I can access it from anywhere (including my iPhone, which is very important to me).

http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/feeddemon/

As recommended by you awhile ago. It's worked out rather well, I like it.

If I ever was able to get a iPhone (yeah, right), I'd probably go to Google Reader though.

[Danny Stewart]

Originally Posted by Kody

http://www.newsgator.com/individuals/feeddemon/

As recommended by you awhile ago. It's worked out rather well, I like it.

If I ever was able to get a iPhone (yeah, right), I'd probably go to Google Reader though.

I like Google Reader just for its simplicity, mostly. Still, glad you have a good one.

[Kody]

This just was released.. http://code.google.com/p/readair/

Google Reader for your desktop, done with Adobe Air.

It's Mac themed as well!

I may need to try this..

[Josef Kenny]

What's up with Adobe Air? I'm suspicious of it.

[Kody]

Why're you suspicious of it?

It's just another platform made by Adobe, like Flash.

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), codenamed Apollo,[1] is a cross-operating system runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, and Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/

People are making all sorts of great things on it, this Google Reader setup being one. Also, Pandora!

http://www.pandora.com/desktop

This stuff is the awesome, as they say.

[Josef Kenny]

Why do we have to have all of these platforms? Why not just program things normally!? Say, if you want to program a game, you write it in C or C++, if you want to program some web thing, you do it in Java or if you want a Mac OS X application you do it in Objective-C/Cocoa? Everything having to be built on platforms is, like, the Microsoft mentality.

Yes I KNOW that Cocoa is a platform : P

[Kody]

..er, no, it's not a Microsoft mentality. The Microsoft mentality is making everything windows specific. Seriously.

Having a platform like this allows programmers to create applications that can run in nearly every OS environment.
As you can see, AIR is just based of things we already use, Ajax, HTML, etc.

So you could write a program in AIR that will work on Windows / Linux GUI's / Mac's, etc.

[Josef Kenny]

Yeah, I understand that, but if Adobe were an OS developer they would make their software, standards etc Adobe specific as well.

[Kody]

And? There's no point in arguing a "if they were". They specialize in making software and platforms that work for all operating systems, making it easier to create time saving and useful applications.

I fail to see a downside?

[Josef Kenny]

It's slow/complicated/based on other technologies from the same developer (locked in)/encourages developers using it to be lazy in their programming and organization?

[Kody]

Originally Posted by Rat Souffle

It's slow/complicated

Have you ever programmed in AIR, HTML or Ajax? It's really simple yet powerful.

Originally Posted by Rat Souffle

based on other technologies from the same developer (locked in)

Adobe doesn't own HTML or Ajax in the slightest. Not locked in.

Originally Posted by Rat Souffle

encourages developers using it to be lazy in their programming and organization?

Why would it make them be lazy in programming or organization? Having standards in programming help things be clean, work cross platform and make powerful applications. The same applies for organization.

[Recurring Villain]

On one hand I think Air is great because its a cross platform app makey thing.

On the other I hate it because ever since the Macbook Air anything called Air, including "air" itself, just screams pretentiousness and makes me want to kill whoever uses it or even considers using it.

[Danny Stewart]

I hate it because it requires an additional platform to run applications on top of. It's nice to have things be cross-platform like that, but I don't like running applications on top of a compatibility layer. Native apps all the way.