Many of you probably know Phil Torrone – the guy behind flashenabled.com, who always seems to have cooler toys than the rest of us. :-) Phil’s built a video feed, optimized for NewsGator Media Center Edition. In Phil’s own words: “…basically, with this, i have my own tv station.” He works for Fallon Worldwide, which [...]
Archive for: April, 2004
NewsGator Media Center Edition
By now you’ve probably seen the announcement for NewsGator Media Center Edition – we’re very excited about this! There is a lot more info here, including lots of screenshots. Check it out! Here’s one as a teaser: Yep, that’s a video stream from a RSS enclosure playing in the lower left corner. One more click of [...]
Welcome, John
I’d like to publicly welcome John Carmichael to the NewsGator Technologies management team, as Director, Business Development. John comes from a strong marketing and business development background, and we’re very excited to have him! John’s first day was today, and his white board is already filled. :-) I’m sure he can’t wait to see what [...]
Apple’s laptop design
Omar writes about Apple’s laptops: Apple has always made superior laptops. They just work, aren’t ugly with dozens of panels, protruding pieces of plastic and boneheaded design placement like my microphone that is located right near my loud fan. [shahine.com/omar/] I had a new iBook for a week or so for the recent demo we [...]
Orbz in the Arcade
This is so cool. A while back, I posted something about my friend Justin Mette, who runs an independent game studio. Their claim to fame, so far, is Orbz – it was even listed as one of the best games of 2003 (amidst very good company, like Halo and Madden) in PC Magazine. Well, pretty [...]
Customized Amazon Feeds and NewsGator
Ok, Gordon posted this about 3 weeks ago – so I’m a little behind. Very cool, though – he’s using the ability of NewsGator to map custom RSS extensions to columns in Outlook: NewsGator can render custom columns. This allows you to sort a folder by your custom field; price, in this case. In order [...]
Right-click subscribe with NewsGator for Firefox
This is so cool. Since the first release of NewsGator for Outlook, you’ve been able to right-click on a feed link in Internet Explorer and select “Subscribe in NewsGator”. Now you can do the same thing in Firefox – many thanks to Stuart Hamilton for putting this together!