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Too Much RSS to Digest? Snack on It with Snackr!

I don’t know about you, but I follow a lot of different things. Reading your plethora of RSS feeds can be extremely time consuming if any of them are even remotely active. I’ve found a solution, and it can work in conjunction with Google Reader, or another reader you may use – it’s called Snackr. [...]

Too Much RSS to Digest? Snack on It with Snackr!

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I don’t know about you, but I follow a lot of different things. Reading your plethora of RSS feeds can be extremely time consuming if any of them are even remotely active. I’ve found a solution, and it can work in conjunction with Google Reader, or another reader you may use – it’s called Snackr.

Snackr is an Adobe AIR application, so it is designed by nature to work cross-platform. It’s an RSS ticker that will randomly pull content from your all of your feeds and display it. If you see something interesting you can click it once and get a preview popup, or click it twice to view that article in a browser window.

Snackr also tells you where the article came from and how old it is. You can set your ticker preferences to show you feed articles up to 30 days old, with the lowest setting being one day. For those of you who need up-to-the-minute news and information, Snackr could be the just right application for you to keep up.

Snackr is very easy to install. All you need to do is go to http://snackr.net and download the free application. There are special instructions for Linux users to follow, but they say the application may be a bit buggy because of previous AIR problems.

Once installed, the program will welcome you and tell you to get some feeds. It will ask you to start with a sample feed set, import a feed list from another feed reader, or add feeds manually (and tells you how). If you choose the sample feed set, you’ll start getting articles right away, ticking across the bottom of your screen. You’ll be given articles from Adobe, the Dictionary.com Word of the Day, Astronomy pictures, CNET News, and a variety of others. Want to use your own instead? Choose the import or manual option and then you can tell Snackr to open your saved OPML file.

You can dock Snackr on any of the four sides of your screen. To move it, all you need to do is click and drag it to another area of the screen and it will dock to the closest position.

If you are brave, you can download the test builds available at Google Code. You also have the opportunity to sign up for their public beta. Don’t forget, you can also follow Snackr on Twitter.

Do you know of other great RSS applications? What are YOUR opinions about Snackr?

Too Much RSS to Digest? Snack on It with Snackr!

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How to Beta Test Products

Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – HorrificOne in the chat room what it takes to be a beta tester. A beta tester is someone who tests software that the development team feels the product isn’t ready to be released. On a related note, alpha testing comes before beta. At this stage the product is [...]

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – HorrificOne in the chat room what it takes to be a beta tester.

A beta tester is someone who tests software that the development team feels the product isn’t ready to be released.

On a related note, alpha testing comes before beta. At this stage the product is still coming together, and the project is still very viscous. In the beta stage, the product is much more solidified and the bugs need ot be sorted out and fixed before it can enter the "release cnadidate" stage.

Becoming a beta tester is pretty easy: just ask! Often companies will ask for beta testers (either private or public): all you have to do is sign up and stay in contact with the company.

Remember the single most important rule of being a beta tester: be vocal and provide lots of quality feedback. The company you’re working with may not use all of your ideas, but they will value that feedback, and possibly invite you to a beta in the future.

What do you think it takes to be a beta tester?

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