Archive for: September, 2003

Office 2003 now available

Sep 15 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

Office 2003 is now available for download for MSDN Universal subscribers, and certain volume license customers. Outlook 2003 totally rocks with NewsGator – try it, you’ll like it! Be sure to check out the new search folders with NewsGator.

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Subscriptions with feed://

Sep 15 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

Pete Hopkins (here, here) and Steven Wood (here) are lobbying for support for subscription links in the format feed://http://example.org/rss.xml Steven even posted the necessary registry entries for Internet Explorer to wire up an application to respond to a user clicking a link like this. So, for example, NewsGator could add a subscription whenever a user clicks [...]

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Don is suprised, but Sam is mistaken

Sep 14 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

Sam Gentile says that Don Box needs to get out into the streets and talk to customers, and says that he would find, among other things: No one cares about Web Services in real usage (only geeks think they’re cool). Sam, I know you’re out working with customers, but maybe you should talk to a [...]

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Windows 2003 Server default settings

Sep 12 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

Dave Burke isn’t happy with Windows 2003 Server’s default security settings: [...] But at the end of the flying day or computing day, what has changed?  Really?  As a developer (or flyer), there is just more crap to do to get to where you want to go.  But at the end of the day you [...]

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Credit card fraud

Sep 11 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

So I’m trying to listen to PressPlay, and I notice that all my streams are only coming in at 20 kbps, which is just killing me – I feel like I’m listening to music on an old AM radio. I call them, and after a few minutes with the support guy, he figures out my [...]

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RIAA lawsuits

Sep 10 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

I’m as surprised as anyone about the recent round of lawsuits, including the suit against the 12-year old girl. But here’s a quote from the girl’s mom: “It’s not like we were doing anything illegal,” said Torres. [Fox News] This is exactly the problem. No one thinks it’s illegal. If you’re in the intellectual property [...]

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PC Magazine reviews NewsGator

Sep 09 2003 Published by under newsgator

In the October 1 issue of PC Magazine, NewsGator and three other aggregators were reviewed – NewsGator tied for the highest rating in the review, 4/5.Don’t underestimate the convenience factor here…NewsGator has a lot to offer.I’ll post a link when the review hits their web site.UPDATE (9/14): the review is now online.

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NewsGator ad again

Sep 09 2003 Published by under newsgator

From Matt Berther: I’ve typically been against a lot of advertising on websites, however, I have now put my first advertisement on mattberther.com. The decision behind this was simple. The ad is for NewsGator, which is a tool that I use on a daily basis, and one that I could not imagine being without. Thanks [...]

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Feed Validator has moved

Sep 05 2003 Published by under Uncategorized

This is worth re-posting…the feed validator has moved to http://feedvalidator.org.  There are other validators out there, but this is the only one really worth using, IMHO. The Feed Validator, previously located at feeds.archive.org/validator/, now has its own domain: feedvalidator.org. If you have any scripts, templates, or applications that point to the Feed Validator, now would [...]

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NewsGator Ad

Sep 04 2003 Published by under newsgator

Our new NewsGator ad went online a few days ago at infoworld.com. You can see it here. Feel free to grab the markup and display this baby on your own site. ;-) Thanks to Didier Hilhorst from nundroo, who again did a great job!

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