How to Use AideRSS to Clean Up your Feed Reader

We’ve talked before about How to Read Feeds more Productively but what do you do when one of your favorite feeds starts posting too much? Well now you don’t have to go to the extreme of unsubscribing, and instead you can fix the problem. I found myself in this position a couple days ago, with one of my favorite feeds: Download Squad. DS has very interesting articles, and I usually find a lot of cool apps from...

Only2Clicks – The Only Startpage You’l...

When it comes to browser homepages, I have slowly drifted from MSN to Google, to Netvibes, to Schoolr, to Sputtr and then back to Google. My latest (and quite possibly greatest) startpage is Only2Clicks. Only2Clicks is very unique, and I don’t really know what to compare it to. You can create bookmarks of your favorite sites, and they will appear on your page with a screen shot of that page. You can drag-and-drop to...

A Wonderful (and true) Tale of GadgetTrak Recovery

I posted back in march about a new service called GadgetTrak which offered to increase the chances of recovering a stolen gadget. It seemed like a nifty idea for $12/year, and not wanting to disappointed, I signed up. I downloaded the agent files, tweaked them a bit to make them more believable to a thief, and then loaded them on my iPod. I had 5 licenses, so I sold a couple to my friends and loaded it onto their ipods. Sure...

Online Newspaper Subscriptions: no more papers in ...

Erin posted a good point over at Unclutterer about getting rid of your paper news subscription, and converting to online subscriptions. I think this is a superb ideas, and I have made my opinion clear about paper vs. Digital in my post Going Paperless with PDF. Personally, I don’t read newspapers. I don’t care about keeping up with the latest political scandals or the latest horrific murders and all that other...

To-do Lists vs. Habit Lists

I read Mark’s post about Two Task Lists over at Productivity501, and I wanted to add my thoughts. As much as some people want to pile all their tasks in one single list (including me sometimes), I have found that this just isn’t the best way to go about it. We all have daily or weekly recurring “habit” type tasks, which are hard to classify on our todo list. Even though emailing [insert name here]...

6 Firefox Extensions for Less Browser Clutter

I discovered Firefox as an alternative browser sometime last year, and I have loved it from day one (you may be able to tell that from the number of Firefox-related posts on Gearfire). What I like most about it is the user’s ability to customize their experience. From day one I liked how I could move my address bar into the menu bar, and merge my google toolbar with the navigation buttons. The result is much more screen...