Monthly Archives: November 2007

Newshutch.com is Dead, Long Live gReader

By Bish | Published: 03/11/2007 – 01:08 | Posted in Design, Opinion, Web2.0 | Comments (2)

So after trying Sage (the excellent Firefox extension addon) many moons ago but concluding RSS readers should be hosted, I went through Rojo, Newsgator, Bloglines and some terrible ones I can’t even remember the name of, but none were what I was looking for. I also tried an early version of Google Reader and for all the good points about it I couldn’t stand the interface.

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Get Nik Daum a Publisher

By Bish | Published: 03/11/2007 – 00:04 | Posted in Design, Opinion, Personal, Quick, Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Just a quick note – if ever someone needs to find a publisher its this guy. Check out Nik Daum’s ‘dordles‘ (not quite drawings/not quite doodles) and be pleasantly entertained by his fantastic art and wicked sense of humour.

He is currently looking for a publisher and I am looking for books for my coffee table so if you know one, help me and him out!

Last.fm on Vista (no longer requires adminstrator rights)

By Bish | Published: 02/11/2007 – 23:56 | Posted in How To, News, Software, Web2.0 | Comments (1)

Since upgrading to Vista, around about the time it was released, I am proud to say that I am one of the few who has been very happy with the experience. I am a sucker for shiny things and like virtually all the features they have introduced – lets face it XP felt like an ancient OS when looking and using a Mac. Further everything that I can’t live without works fine in Vista or there is a Vista compatible version.

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Lost In Time

By Bish | Published: 02/11/2007 – 23:21 | Posted in Personal, Quick | Comments (0)

For want of a much better title, it looks like 3 months have passed since I last updated this blog. It doesn’t feel like three months but I seem to have replaced one love (blogging) with a profession (web design) and the free time that I used for benbishop.me.uk has been swallowed up by browser bugs, wordpress plugins and myspace (argh!) nuances.

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