Introduction
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2006-03-10 16:38.The Global Syndicator is an experimental web 2.0-type aggregation service, featuring automatic tagging. It's born out of my frustration with mainstream feed readers.
It has been set it up to manage incoming feeds more immediately and efficiently, and keep a history of interesting articles so that you can search incoming feed content.
Evening Reading
Took a short trip over to Telltale today to check out Tales of Monkey Island. I'll write a thing on it soon. Well, very soon, considering the first episode launches next Tuesday. News: <
Windows 7 rocks
About a year ago, I bought the missus a low-end Lenovo laptop so I could reclaim my own. However, from day one she hated it, complaining that it was slow and that she kept getting strange, annoying pop-ups. There were two reasons for this. The first was that Lenovo likes to add value with a whole [...]
Common diabetes drug may ‘revolutionize’ cancer therapies
Researchers at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that a widely used anti-diabetic drug can boost the immune system and increase the potency of vaccines and cancer treatments.
Gain in Pending Home Sales Suggests Stabilization
The Pending Home Sales Index rose more than expected with a 3.2% advance in March, against forecasts that it would be unchanged after a revised 2.0% gain in February. The index now stands at 84.6. Ann
Rates Stay in Record Territory
Long-term mortgages reclaimed record low status this week as the 30-year fixed rate mortgage (FRM) dropped to 4.78 percent. This ties the record that was set on April 7 as the lowest interest rate rec
Puzzle Quest: A quick guide for the old and new versions (or - why use a Druid)
Introduction Puzzle Quest is pretty fun. If you haven't tried it yet, it's almost definitely available on any platform choice - it's on the Sony PSP, Nintento DS, PC (Intel GMA 950 is probably enough), Playstation Network (for PS3), XBLA (for XBOX 360), iPhone/iPod touch, and most other mobile platforms (although our affiliate Clickgamer unfortunately doesn't seem to carry it).
Rates Reverse Four Week Decline
Mortgage rates rose slightly during the week ended April 9, ending a two week run of record lows but still staying comfortably under 5 percent. According to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Surve
Facebook Rescinds Some Changes, Leaves Others Alone
Facebook pushed out a serious update to its interface last week, much to the anger and upset of its users. I'm one of those people. I lost access to one of the things I use the most, the News Feed, and it also stopped auto-updating. That was my biggest complaint. My second-biggest complaint was the "highlights" section on the right-hand side, which featured things I was not interested in but had happened to appear on some of my friend's Facebook pages.
Last.fm To Start Charging International Users
tdobson writes "The popular online radio service Last.fm has announced that users outside of the UK, USA and Germany will need to start paying 3 Euros (about $4.40 USD/£2.80 GBP) per month to continue streaming music on their service. Last.fm doesn't offer much of a reason as to the change, other than writing on their blog that '[t]here will be a 30 track free trial, and we hope this will convince people to subscribe and keep listening to the radio.' Already, there appears to be quite a backlash in responses so far, amongst subscribers and non-subscribers of all nationalities — has this killed Last.fm's appeal, globally?"