Published by Carsten Pötter May 15th, 2008
in Music.
Shook Magazine
Back from the office I was pleasantly surprised finding the second edition of Shook magazine in my mailbox. It’s a London based music magazine covering a wide range of topics, basically urban and black music. It has it all, from a short feature on Dutch d&b and dubstep producer Martyn to a long piece on Erykah Badu’s new album. The guys are even praising Angelo Badalamenti. Haven’t read the whole magazine yet, but it’s worth every penny so far. Get it. [via New Urban Music Blog]
New CDs
Also some new CDs arrived today. Well, actually they are not really new but some indie and post punk gems dating back from 1992 to 2006.
- Drive Like Jehu - s/t
- Jawbox - My Scrapbook of Fatal Accidents
- June of 44 - Four Great Points
- Les Savy Fav - The Cat and the Cobra
- Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress
- These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Completely different to the content of Shook but equally enjoyable.
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Published by Carsten Pötter May 13th, 2008
in Applications.
Just a quick follow-up post to yesterday’s post on FeedDemon. While FeedDemon is an excellent feed reader - actually the best one I ever used - I’m a little bit envious of the tools build for Google Reader, especially RSSmeme and ReadBurner. Both services aggregate shared items on Google Reader. I think it’s an excellent way to track which stories and articles people are actually reading and think are worth sharing with friends and fellow news junkies. The services provide a broader view on the blogosphere than e.g. Techmeme because smaller and lesser-known blogs rise to the surface.
So wouldn’t it be great if more feed readers were supported by those services? Well, today ReadBurner has announced support for Netvibes and has given some hints for more news (via Center Networks). Is there any hope that FeedDemon will be supported soon? I want that badly. FeedDemon supports sharing of articles as well. Just make sure to tick the box in the settings of any Clippings folder. I have created a new one for that purpose, aptly title Shared Items, of course.
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Published by Carsten Pötter May 12th, 2008
in Applications.
Sometimes it’s funny: I use a fine piece of software for several weeks but still find new features and tweaks that I wanted the developers to add for future versions. Last night this happened with the already great FeedDemon. FeedDemon provides different views for subscribed feeds, so called Newspaper styles. Since I want all articles being displayed as full text I have chosen the Surfer style. All articles of a subscribed feed shown as full text, readable by scrolling down. Standard, right?
Though I am also subscribed to various news sites and sites that have a high daily posting frequence. Usually I don’t want to see all articles but just the headlines; full text only when necessary. I could change the newspaper to the Expando style which looks like this:
Though until last night I thought there was only a default style and it wasn’t possible to have a certain newspaper style on a per feed basis. Well, I was wrong. The settings are hidden on the Advanced tab in the individual feed properties. Very useful, very good. I will have to look for more features now, I guess.
Anyway, an already happy FeedDemon user is even happier now. 
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