The wonders of modern technology...

[graculus]

In my ongoing quest to avoid using Mickeysoft products wherever I can (and if only work would allow me that luxury too!), I've been a long-time user of both Opera and Pegasus as browser and mail program respectively.

The newest version of Opera seems a little crash-prone, however, while Pegasus is currently failing to download messages from my other mail accounts (of the blessedly spam-free variety, since I only use them to receive mail from Yahell rather than post) as previously without me poking it with a sharp stick. I have no idea whether it's due to my upgrading my AVG mail virus-checker recently or just sheer cussedness, but it's annoying. After all, the idea of having broadband is that mail continues to drop as it arrives, not just accumulating on the server - heaven knows Yahell is laggardly enough at times without extra assistance.

So I've been playing with Firefox and Thunderbird as possible replacements. I'm not overly keen on Firefox, unless someone can tell me how to tweak it so that new pages from links pop up as a new tag automatically (and I'm sure some bright spark out there knows just what I mean), so I've gone back to using Opera for now. Meanwhile I quite like Thunderbird, though again I'd like the message filtering to happen automatically and I can't quite make it do that - it's downloading stuff nicely, though, so it's more likely I'll stick with it.

One thing about Thunderbird, it also has an RSS feed viewer integrated into it. My one question is this: how on earth do people keep up with stuff? ;)

Comments

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Am using netscape at the moment, but still use Outlook for mail, so can't help you there. Netscape has its own quirks, which annoy me, so I resort to IE when I go into Delphi chat, for example. I can't seem to find the perfect web browser with nothing wrong with it.

Have heard of RSS, but I have no idea how to use it. Is it good?

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I liked the fact that Firefox has multiple windows in one (which is a great virtue of Opera) since you don't then have to have multiple copies of the same browser running to do more than one thing at a time (like reading livejournal while being in a chatroom). I've been using Opera for about 4 years now, I think, so it's not likely I'm going to change any time soon on a permanent basis.

Well, essentially RSS seems to be for lazy people to avoid having to actually go to websites... so yes, it's great! :P

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, netscape has tabs, which I heartily approve of. I hate having loads of copies of something running, and disapprove of the way MS are going with that. Blech.

RSS sounds perfect for me. Of course, the average fic site doesn't have an RSS feed, so it's not quite as perfect as it might otherwise be *g*

[graculus.livejournal.com]

What we need is for everyone to have rss feeds to say their website has been updated and then we can cut out the need for Yahell mailing lists altogether! ;)