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Note that http://feeds.mobileread.com/mr/front supports categories in its RSS feed.
Currently mine reads (only better formatted) Announcements21 Apple iPhone1 Bookeen Cybook Gen32 Deals, Freebies, and Resources9 Feedback2 Fictionwise eBookwise3 Gen3 Developer's Corner1 iLiad Developer's Corner2 iRex Digital Reader8iRex iLiad4 Kindle Content3 Lounge4 News and Commentary92 OpenInkpot1 Other Devices6 PDF1 Polymer Vision Readius1 Reader PRS-505 Dev Corner1 Reading Recommendations2 Reading Software3 Sony Portable Reader3 Sony Portable Reader PRS-500/5053 Sony Portable Reader PRS-7002 Week in Review24 Which one should I buy?1 |
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I am at a bit of a disadvantage because I have only downloaded it as a portable application, which has some limitations. My first attempt, I downloaded to a U3 Thumb drive. The drive software was a might cranky and the drive itself somewhat slow. The screen would paint, ie. I would be shown a gray box that said 'Patricia's avatar' and it would paint over this from the top down to show the avatar. A lot of repositioning of the web screens going on also. My second attempt I downloaded a whole suite of portable applications, including Firefox, to a newly reformatted Memory Stick PRO-DUO 1G. This suite is much more stable than the U3 version I tried first, it is also a lot faster coming from the memory stick. The screens are still painted slower than my IE7, I assume this is because of the memory stick, plus the fact that it is an older version of Firefox v2.00.14 (last updated in 2007 but the latest portable version there is). My MR 'position at next new post' is working OK. The only thing that isn't working is that some ads are not displaying in the ad banner (I like this). My first impression is that it isn't any faster or cooler looking than my IE7, which I have been using forever, with the knowledge that I am not running Firefox v3 in full application mode. There are a gazillion add-ons, of which I may pick less than 6, not much more than I have with IE7. I don't do any development on this PC, just browsing, uploading/downloading, email, on-line photo albums, search/buying books...etc, and of course MR, but I can see how others could make use of a lot of those extras. If I get the hang of this, and find a few add-ons that are indispensable that IE7 doesn't have, I'll try and download the latest version as a full application (for me only, there are others on this PC). I was leery when I tried to download firefox months ago, after checking 'no' to making it my default browser, there was another question (which I can't recall) which wanted to replace something with something else, and I thought I wouldn't be able to get back to my IE7 or screw up someone else's). Any *must have* add-on suggestions would be appreciated, keeping in mind that I don't want any RSS feeds or any on-line applications (I know which of those I want), games, music or any fancy home page stuff. The simpler/smaller my toolbar(s) are, the better. *note* I was disappointed that my Norston identity safe doesn't work on the portable application, but is available (with a fix) on Firefox v3. (There is a poor facsimile that came with the portable apps, but nowhere near as good as Norstons identity safe). Thanks to all members that offered help. I'm giving this an honest try. If I don't like it I'll go back to IE7 (and I'll hear no more complaints from any of you). After all, according to wikipedia IE7 has 70% of the market. WDE. |
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roboform for password management and form filling downloadthemall for fast downloading/management better gmail (if you are a gmail users) speeddial quick access to frequently visted sites. Also, get used to using the "Awesome bar". Use ctrl-t to open a new tab and put focus into the URL/address bar. Then just type where you want to go. It will quick fill from your bookmarks and recently visited places. Much faster than slogging through the book mark menu. you can also tag bookmarks if you are into that. But, with the awesome bar I haven't found a need to do this. Set up keywords on some of your bookmarks. This lets you do various stuff. For example, I have a bookmark of: "Kindle Store" http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_ki...ld-keywords=%s Keyword = k Then in the awesome bar I can just type k this book here And it will go and search in the kindle store. You can also set these up for google and wikipedia. Sure, you can use the search bar (ctrl-k) but then you have to use the mouse to select where to search, and it stays at that location. The awesome bar and foxmarks pretty much settled it for me. I only use IE7 now to browse the app we work on (it is deved for IE and doesn't work in FF.) BTW: I find rendering and javascript stuff to be much faster in Firefox. BOb |
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Wow. I saw this thread yesterday and wanted to read if it's related to a problem I'm having (and I believe I know the cause of it) but with over 100 posts already I'm not really interested in reading it all. So, two quick questions:
1. Has the issue been resolved (or at least understood)? and 2. Is it related to this problem I posted the other day (which I would hope could be fixed some way, perhaps by preventing datavis.com from participating in the ads we host)?: I hate it when I click on a thread and my browser is instantly redirected to the portion of the page where there is an ad displayed by this one particular company. I can live with ads being displayed. But leave the control of what I look at on that page to me. This has been happening far too frequently the last couple of weeks. Death to datavis.com.
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what browser are you using ? if it's IE, for god's sake, get a real browser. that will probably solve all your problems. or at least most of them. if the ad *is* jumping to the top of the page (which, again, should not happen) then alex might need to look into it, but again i'm not sure that's possible. you can also use AdBlock Plus plugin (in firefox) to block the ad ; then you don't even have to see it. |
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