Category — Technology

It appears that today has been marked as RSS Awareness Day among members of the blogging community in an effort to increase the usage of RSS feeds, and related applications. For those who are unfamiliar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), it essentially aggregates newly posted stories from your favorite blogs into one page so that you don’t have visit each site. To start using it simply register with an RSS reader like Google Reader, and then go to your favorite websites and subscribe to their feeds by clicking on their RSS icon ().

Like most other music fans out there I own a ipod, but oddly enough I hardly ever use it, mostly on account that I always forget to charge it. I have never wanted to dish out the dough for a ipod dock or speaker system, and thus have always relied on charging it through my computer, which is annoying for two reasons. First, if you completely deplete the battery, the ipod can’t even begin to charge until after being connected to my laptop for quite some time, since the usb port doesn’t have enough power to get past some type of “charge threshold” (as explained by one of the fellas at apple’s genius bar). Secondly, my laptop actually has to be on in order to be able to charge the dam thing, which can be annoying when I don’t want to actually use the laptop.

Well luckily computer manufacturers are finally catching on to this obvious fix-it..well only one at this point, but I’m sure many will follow. Toshiba recently unveiled a new line of laptops with a feature called the “sleep and charge”, which does exactly what the name signals; the ability to charge your favorite usb powered gadgets without the need for the computer to be on. It’s definitely not enough to make me buy one, but I’m hopeful Apple catches on soon.

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Here’s just one more reason I wish I had an iPhone. By “jailbraking” your iPhone you can add third party applications such as the Drummer, and spend your afternoon staring at something else than your computer screen.