There's a techy computer word for the info I'm about to pass on, but I'm not sure what it is. I don't want to appear to be a moron, so I won't even type the word I think it is. That's when commenters come out of the woodwork to prove that you are, indeed, an uneducated idiot.
A couple of weeks ago, everyone was complaining about the new Facebook layout. I wanted to tell them to get a grip, but they are my friends and you don't talk to friends that way. At least I don't. Most of the time.
Then I noticed that I was seeing advertisements in the sidebar. I hadn't seen ads on Facebook in a year. I use the Firefox web browser and they have this cool, little add-on called AdBlock Plus. One person told me to upgrade both Firefox and AdBlock. Done. Not working. AND horror, of horrors! My super-cool, feed reader add-on was GONE! Around 50 feeds -poof! gone!
I have a iGoogle page, so I slowly, started adding feeds, that I could remember, to that. But it's a pain. I have to log on to iGoogle and it's clunky. The feeds are in these large boxes. The Sage Feed Reader was sleek. You clicked a button on the browser and the feed reader opened in a side bar. Click again and it ran through all the feeds in a minute. Then, I could go through and read to my heart's content.
Then, Firefox began crashing repeatedly throughout the day. We still use IE for Netflix and Hulu. I updated it yesterday to IE8. And glory, glory hallelujah! They have a built in RSS reader, AND they imported all my bookmarks from Firefox AND behold! All my feeds from the Sage reader were there!
I can rest now, I am back in blog heaven.
3 comments:
lol...I beg to differ...you have talked to me like that, and I'm okay with it. :D I know you're one of my "real" friends. Just like the other day when you told me I was spouting off. I knew you meant it in love. :)
yaye!! I think the word you were looking for was woohoo!
i like my google reader. that may or may not be the same thing as an igoogle page. and i would like just about anything bc i am not tech-savvy enough to know the dif between okay and good and better. which is probably also why i still use ie instead of mozilla. however, i have yet to upgrade to ie8 bc "one of these days i am just going to get mozilla".
the computer the kids use has mozilla, bc it used to belong to my oldest. (my y.a. kids have sworn by mozilla for years.) this week we were having probs w/spaz getting "distracted" while supposedly using the computer for schoolwork, so i added that leechblock add-on you mentioned a while back and blocked out facebook, you-tube, and gmail. we'll see how it works.
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