By Rob Safuto on Oct 31, 2008 in Social Media | 0 Comments
I’ve been using the Google Chrome web browser as my primary browser at home since shortly after it was released. I had previously been using Firefox as my primary browser but I wanted to see what the new browser from Google had to offer.
Having given it a bit of time I wanted to list some [...]
By Rob Safuto on May 7, 2008 in Social Media | 2 Comments
Every so often you stumble across something and think, “How is it that I didn’t know about this sooner?” ScribeFire is one of those things.
ScribeFire is a blog publishing tool that integrates with the Firefox web browser as an add on. Once you install ScribeFire you can create and edit blog posts from within the [...]
By Rob Safuto on Dec 3, 2006 in RSS, Social Media, Tools | 2 Comments
I recently upgraded my Firefox browser to version 2.0. One thing to consider before you upgrade is how the upgrade will affect your add ons.
Most will probably be supported, but I ran into a potentially sticky situation with my desktop RSS feed reader of choice, Onfolio. Onfolio was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year and [...]
By Rob Safuto on Oct 20, 2006 in RSS, Social Media | 3 Comments
Internet Explorer 7 is out and it includes some nifty features that allow people to discover and subscribe to RSS feeds in the browser. I’ve been testing the beta for months and recognized that the RSS functionality is a very important new feature.
Apparently Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think so. I read [...]
By Rob Safuto on Aug 13, 2006 in Observations, RSS, Social Media | 0 Comments
I found something very interesting while tooling around the latest release of Firefox. When you right click on a page that contains an RSS feed you’re presented with a “Feed or Podcast” menu choice. Clicking the choice then presents a list of items in the feed which you can go to by clicking on the [...]
By Rob Safuto on Apr 6, 2006 in Beta, RSS | 0 Comments
The official Google Blog has announced the beta release of version 2 of their toolbar for the Firefox web browser. The most interesting new feature allows users to subscribe to RSS feeds via the toolbar.
According to the Google feature site for the toolbar,”The Toolbar will automatically detect if content of the page you are browsing [...]