From the everyday companions below, I must admit that Google and Wikipedia are my essential tools. There is not a single day I don’t visit them.
Google stores my email, calendar, rss feeds, some of my documents, and I’m waiting patiently for my Wave invitation. As for Wikipedia, it is simply the best knowledge database out there. I can’t believe I was an Encarta fan… it was so limited. You can’t imagine how many discussions have been settled over a Wikipedia page.
They are only a couple of year old, but I can’t imagine my life without them.
I also use other services, but all that Web 2.0 concept is not for me. If you need to “connect” with me just use the “good ol’ e-mail”.
Today, this was the reply I got when accessing my GMail account… Oh, no! The world must be at an end! Save yourselves…
Ups! I think I exaggerated a bit. Everything is OK again… All my stuff is there. Maybe it’s time to think about making a few backups.
Mental Note: next time press F5 (at least once) before crying “Wolf”!!!
While on vacation, I like to spend a part of my time reading whichever blogs are currently subscribed in my RSS feed reader. On vacation for about a week, I’m still looking for a good offline RSS feed reader for Linux. An offline reader allows one to read the downloaded posts even when offline (e.g. on the train between employment and home). Actually, the choice shouldn’t be so hard because after a prelimirary survey, the only three promissing choices were Liferea, RSSOwl and, of course, Google Reader (offline using the Google Gears).
Liferea is built using GTK libraries and has some nice features, but a minimal experimentation session proved Liferea to be a sligthly unstable application (even when using the stable version). However, the advanced features, specially Google Reader synchronization (only available in the unstable version), make me consider using it as my official RSS reader.
On the other side, RSSOwl is a platform independent, supported by the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, reader with a lot of advanced features. Being a lot more stable that the previous reader, currently RSSOwl seems to be a good candidate.
Using Google Reader is certanly another good option, which became even more probable when I discovered that using Google Gears allowed to add offline behaviour to the original service.
The current choice, although not final, falls on to RSSOwl, but I’ll have to check the offline Google Reader feature.
