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By Jeremy, September 20, 2006 10:10 am

Someone pointed me to a really good News Reader called (aptly enough) GreatNews. As well as being a first class newsreader, GreatNews has two distinct advantages over it’s competitors:

1. It is very competitively priced – FREE ! Can’t say fairer than that.

2. It needs no install. That’s right – all you need to do is unzip the files to somewhere – your hard drive, network drive, usb stick, etc and then run it. This is especially good for those wanting to run this at work where we are often prevented from installing things.

For those of you that haven’t tried a News Reader before, they are great things – they allow you to pull all sorts of feeds into a single place. Take a look at Wikipedia for more information on them here. You can even add this blog as a feed and be updated automatically whenever there is a new post. To do that, just add http://stuffyoumightlike.blogspot.com/atom.xml as the feed URL.

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By Jeremy, September 1, 2006 7:25 am

OK, file this one under………………..just plain weird ! Scream! is a little app that sits quietly away in your system tray doing nothing until you get frustrated with your computer/software/colleagues/ whatever and you start yelling at the computer (don’t say you’ve never done that !). At that point it uses your computers in-built microphone to detects these and makes your windows react accordingly – scream a little and they will shake a little, scream a lot and they will really go to town ! Absolutely no practical use whatsoever, but fun nonetheless !