So for the first in this short series of Apps I couldn’t live without is NewsGator.
So what is NewsGator? Simply said it’s synchronized news feeds, doing for RSS what IMAP did for email.
News posts arrive on the server and are available for viewing via a very nice web based interface accessible from any computer.
Now there are several other services available which do just that, Google’s Reader being one of the most popular but where NewsGator comes into its own is that it has the ability to sync with its own Desktop and Mobile clients, which are available for Mac, Windows, iPhone & Java based handsets. So say for example I wake up in the morning and check my RSS feeds on NewsGators Mac client but only make my way through a few items before I have to head to work. So I get on the train and open up the iPhone client, which after automatically synchronizing displays the news items which I didn’t have time to read at home. By the time the train pulls in Iv read through all the feeds and put the iPhone away. Later on during the day I check online via the web based client at work and it shows me all the new news items since I got off the train.
Without NewsGator I would constantly be swamped with posts Iv already read or be faced with a mountain of new posts every time I get home.
Best of all its all free!

Tom

So out of sheer boredom today I plugged my SlingBox into my Virgin Media coaxial lead and told it to tune in using the onboard analogue cable tuner (Virgin supposedly shut down analogue cable some time ago). Besides the subscription free channels, static and audio I found this!

A Windows PC somewhere on the Virgin Media grid broadcasting various information for what I can only guess is for technicians.

What do you make of it?

Sorry I haven’t posted anything on the blog for a while, heres a square Mellon to make up for it.

After trying day after day for the last couple weeks it appears the me.com mail servers finally went online within the last few hours, by using modified .Mac IMAP settings I sucessfully sent an email (probably the first in the world outside Cupertino!) from my me.com email address!
All you need is a .Mac Account and an email client such as Apple Mail (On OSX or iPhone), Thunderbird or “shudder” Outlook.
Feel free to try the settings as posted below and contact me (via the contact page of my site) or leave a comment if you have any luck!

Amazing how quickly things spread in the blogosphear, posted this last night and woke up to this:
http://gizmodo.com/5022434/how-to-mecom-mail-fully-working-set-it-up-now
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/07/06/me-com-mail-servers-online/

Tom

I have set up a new photography page that automatically takes my most recent pictures off Flickr, will mean it gets updated alot more often then it was and has a nice lightbox effect, see for yourself and head over to the new page and try clicking the thumbnails.

Done a few quick/rough edits of the photos I took last night and thought Id share a few.
To view the edits in larger sizes, head over to my flickr.

Just been out and about and somehow ended up at a playground and then above a motorway, anyway I decided to take some pictures and here are my favorites.
To view the lot in full res, check out my flickr

Last night in the early hours of the morning while watching some quality british TV on ITV 2 my T started breaking up and making funky noises, so I did what any sane person would do, start recording it!
and this is the result…

So thats all fine and dandy but later on I sent it to my friend, the very talented “Blak Tornado” and what did he do?
Turn it into a song of course!

Be sure to check out his website at BlakTornado.com