Week 4

Dear 23 "Thingers"

Somehow it's midweek already - I apologise for the lateness of the update. You'll be pleased to know i'm working my way through an eBook or 2 a week - the apartment is peaceful sans TV. The books occasionally expand my vocab and I gleefully switch apps from IBooks to Safari to get the definitions - a far cry from the days when you had to look it up in a [very] heavy tome your mother would hand you if you asked what a word meant.

Thank you for your efforts last week with Pixlr. I understand at least some of you weren't able to complete the exercise. I think that it was probably the Flash addin in your browser which required updating - but since we're unable to do this ourselves it can be a little effort to get it done. I find PixLr (image)s good for avatars - something to keep in mind you you want a new image for your Skype / FaceBook.

To This week:

This week is about RSS and associated technologies which stem from it. Basically RSS enables you to subscribe to sites or parts of sites which interest you - via a reader. For a lot of us - this is the last thing we want - more information! I sympathise.

As for dashboards, basically gadgets utilising RSS to centralise lots of updates on things in one place. You've semi-entountered this vis-a-vis iGoogle.

If you like you could simply blog about what you subscribe to in iTunes or similar = )
Have a great week and if you're heading out early on holidays - lucky you! Enjoy.

Jake.