RSS feeds have changed the way many use the web. People don’t go to content; content comes to them. Instead of manually checking individual websites for updates that might not have been made, they check just one place- their feed reader- and see new stories from all of their favorite websites. Feed readers are often used as an alternative to visiting the actual web site, but they don’t have to be. If you like the update notifications of RSS but prefer to visit the actual web page, there’s an app for that.
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Posted at 3:03 pm on June 17th, 2009.
Categories: Picks & Reviews. Tags: feed reader, feeds, freeware, Mac, pick, rss, software.
Folding@home is a way to easily contribute for free to the search for cures to Alzheimer’s disease and even many cancers. All you have to do is let Stanford University’s free program run in the background on your computer (Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD) or Sony PlayStation3. I recommend that you give it a try if you haven’t already. More details after the jump. More… »
Posted at 7:25 pm on June 15th, 2009.
Categories: Picks & Reviews. Tags: Alzheimer's, cancer, cause, distributed computing, free, Linux, Mac OS X, PS3, science, software, Windows.
