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@vizou asked: Feedly does not currently have a good feed management interface. We offer a dashboard and a springcleaning page but the only offer the option to edit a single subscription at the time. The result is that it is currently pretty painful to manage categories. But Feedly is integrated with Google Reader and Google Reader has a really nice interface to manage subscriptions. So here is how you can work around the problem: Go to the settings page in Google Reader Click on subscriptions Use the Google Reader UI to manage subscription and categories (you can do any operation...
Navigon's dashboard-mounted GPS unit has a lot to recommend it, including a whizzy 3-D display and street views that show photos of actual road signs, making it easier to find your way around. But as reviewer Rachel Ciricola discovers, this $600 navigation gadget has a big drawback: It's slooooow. The 3-D view might just be enough to distract you from the 8100T's many minor annoyances. For instance, if you plan on turning the unit off between trips, you'd better know where you are going — at least for some of the ride. Every time we restarted, it took a...
Giving users complete control of their online experience has always been a core tenet of Windows Live and this hasn't changed with the What's New list feature in Windows Live. This feature enables users to view an activity feed of what members of their social network are doing AND to provide an activity feed of what the user has done recently. You can see an example of the latter on my Windows Live profile. Listed below are the various ways we keep users in control of their online experience related to this feature. In Control of What You See...
@boringo asked today: The “Greatest” view (renamed to the “home” view in 1.2.95+) is feedly’s attempt at showcasing what are the “best” unread articles available in your feedly. The goal is to try to filter out the best content in case you only have a few minutes and do not have time to read everything. The filtering is based on various parameters: is the source the article is coming from one of your favorite sources or not, how many recommendation does the article have, how old is the article, has this article been recommended by someone your follow directly, how...
(Credit: Google) Google has put out an official Gmail gadget for its Google Desktop product, giving users the option to run multiple instances of different Gmail accounts as standalone gadgets. The tool includes several useful Gmail features like keyboard shortcuts, mail, and contact search, along with the option to star messages. Users can also compose messages in a little pop-out window, which keeps them from having to fire up their browser. The app is currently Windows-only and requires Google Desktop version 5 or higher, leaving Mac and Linux users of Google Desktop out in the cold. Anyone looking to use...
If you've been missing out on SFII Turbo HD Remix's amazing soundtrack because you're being hit by the New Xbox Experience's audio-killing HDMI bug, don't worry, Microsoft says a patch is coming. Apparently, the problem comes from a new HDCP protocol (a DRM thing baked into HDMI) that some older integrated sound systems can't deal with. Yay, another reason DRM sucks. In the meantime, you can either try that lame temporary fix by pulling out the hard drive and reinserting it when you're already in the dashboard, or you can use analog audio. No word on when this patch is...
Imagine TweetDeck as an online application. Now imagine that you could use its paneled dashboard interface to keep tabs on your other online identities, too. With PeopleBrowsr, you can. This new application, currently in alpha, lets you update your networks, follow your friends, organize your favorites, and search for content across networks that include Twitter, flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Digg, Seesmic, identi.ca, Photobucket, upcoming, and FriendFeed. Sponsor About PeopleBrowser Keeping tabs on all the happenings across the social web can be a challenge. For some, FriendFeed is the destination of choice as it lets you see streams of information from all...
Instead of gifting flowers this Christmas, how about gifting something that teaches someone the importance of fuel conservation? The ScanGauge II is just like an energy-monitoring device for cars, which can be mounted on the dashboard of most car models. The device shows how efficiently you’re driving, in a way helping you to improve your car’s mileage with good driving skills. The device displays fuel economy, fuel rate, battery voltage and vehicle speed. The data allows the driver to adjust his driving to get the most out of the precious drops of fuel. The device is a must for...
By Joe Hall Ok, let me first start off by saying, Power.com is awesome! What is it? Power.com is a one stop shop for social networking and instant messaging. Think about it this way: with Power.com you have the ability to navigate and use Myspace, Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, MSN is live. Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and soon Gtalk, all at the same time. Today Power.com will attempt to reach out to an American audience for the first time, since this Brazilian based startup first caught the attention of funding powerhouses Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson. And I am willing to...
I recently spoke with Ross Mayfield, founder of Socialtext, about his product - an enterprise-level group collaboration platform - and he shared some theories of collaboration that led to the development of the software. He spoke about the construction of a social network and how our networks have dense cores (strong ties) surrounded by dynamic peripheries (looser ties). The core of an organization - such as the leadership team - tends to work closely together. They process information well and can usually make decisions quickly and effectively. The rest of the team, however, is the dynamic periphery and there is...
Power.com is an ambitious social utility that brings together all the networks you have on social network sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Orkut , as well on instant-messaging networks like AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger. If you have have a presence on more than one network it's worth a look, although it has its own interface that awkwardly sits on top of your existing services when you use it. The biggest draw of Power.com is that it really does bring everyone in your networks together for you. On the Power.com start page, you can see all your...
Chances are you use at least two major social networks - 49 million people, for example, visited both MySpace and Facebook in October 2008 (Comscore, worldwide). Nearly 7 million people in the UK use both Bebo and Facebook. A lot of people maintain very different friend lists on LinkedIn than MySpace or Facebook. Etc. And when you add in niche social sites like YouTube, Flickr, etc., there’s even more overlap among users. There has never been an effective way of aggregating and merging all the data and activity on these sites into a single user interface. A new venture backed...
Windows only: Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the 747-dashboard of an interface that graces Bulk Rename Utility and you'll be rewarded with an enormously powerful tool. You can rename files, substitute some or all of the file name, apply numbers and lettering, swap extensions, append with time and date stamps, rename based on image EXIF data and audio ID3 data, and all that just scratches the surface. Concerned that somewhere in the labyrinth of check and text boxes you may have misstepped? The quick preview function is a fast and handy feature to help you sidestep any...
Image credit: Moddage Images of Jasper, the new (manufactured Oct 23) Xbox 360 mobo, show some neat features that haven’t been announced or confirmed by Microsoft. Among them are the run of the mill 150W power supply (lower power consumption means lower power bills for you, natch), a GPU with a smaller footprint, and 256MB of internal storage via a flash chip. Xbox Scene is pretty positive that the onboard storage means you can install the NXE dashboard without robbing you of hard disk space. Good news for those of you who are trying to milk every single byte...
On Wednesday of last week, Microsoft rolled out its long anticipated dashboard update for the Xbox 360 console. Among other things, the update incorporated support for Netflix subscribers with an Xbox Live Gold account to be able and stream the online rental service's catalog of downloadable movies and TV shows through the Xbox 360, some of which is in high definition. With consumers slow to warm to Blu-ray, the Netflix capability could potentially nudge undecided console owners in Microsoft's direction rather than opting for Sony's Playstation 3 + Blu-ray combo. But does Sony feel threatened?Officially, the answer is 'no.' Following...
