Feed Reading - “Web 2.0″ style
One of the frustrations of using multiple computers is keeping your data in sync. I use four computers - desktop at work, work laptop, personal laptop, and a desktop at home (two Macs, two with Linux). I have no problem with the documents, I can always access my data as long as I’m on the ‘net - and I don’t save documents on either laptop unless I’m not on the internet.
Email is fine - I use IMAP for my jsleeper.org accounts, so all the email is on the server. Whatever I’ve read on any of the clients shows up as read on any other client.
RSS readers were a pain for that. I would use NetNewsWire Lite on Mac and Lifrea on Linux. I’d forget to add feeds to some computers, or I’d have to sift through items I’ve already read when I go to another computer. I needed something different. I needed a web based reader that I can access from any browser. I considered sites like FeedLounge, but didn’t want to pay for it.
A quick Google search found Gregarius, a free web-based reader that you can install on your own web server. I love it. Check out my feeds if you’d like. I left them public ’cause I have nothing to hide and since guests can’t mark items as read.
So, if Britt has her laptop and a work computer as her workstations and she has two emails addresses (@drewandbritt.org and @thesouthmag.com) I could reset her email to be IMAP rather than POP3 and the emails would not show up on both computers and ’cause her a major headache?
With IMAP, the emails stay on the server. So if she reads an email on one computer and doesn’t delete the email it will show up on the other computer, and it will show up as read. You can also create folders to move emails to for archival purposes.
I know drewandbritt.org supports IMAP, you’ll have to check about thesouthmag.com account.
pretty much anything you can image to do, there is a web app for now. kplaylist, your rss reader, sharepoint, etc…. crazy.