I had the extension installed for about an hour and found it was more irritating than useful so I took it off again.
I don't really want to be notified about all the news from Macromedia bloggers, just people who are dealing with CFMX, or specific individuals who I think have something interesting to say. Having everything in there just adds to the amount of "noise" and distraction I have to filter out of my day. Since I already have about 25 feeds set up in Thunderbird it just felt disjointed to have to go to Thunderbird for the majority of my daily news and all my emails, and have the extension notifying me of a small subset of the info I've already got aggregated in Thunderbird. If it was configurable to allow you to add feed URLs and to allow you to view the summaries as a tooltip in the news list then it would be a different story because it is nice to be notified when someone posts news you actually want to read. The only thing I'm missing from Thunderbird is an option for a system tray notification that works the same way for news feeds as it does for email. Spike Jeff Small wrote: > Okay, this is a PERFECT time to jump in here and pimp this thing... > > http://www.markme.com/macromedianews/ > > Dude, if you're using Firefox, you HAVE to load this extension. It's frickin > unbelievable. It's single-handedly the coolest extension I've ever used. It > blinks when there's updated content, it loads in a tab in the background, > and it's just the most ubiquitous little way to keep up with the macromedia > blog universe. > > I'm hooked like crack...er...not that I've ever tried crack...er...the drug, > I mean...anyway, try that extension. It rules. > > >>Get yourself an RSS feed reader and get the feed from www.fullasagoog.com. >> >>Good collection of MACR-centric blogs there. MACR's MXNA aggregator >>should be out in RSS format (according to Mike Chambers) soon, so this >>would be a good one to add, too. >> >>I've had my ass saved a number of times from reading blogs. I've also >>gotten a ton of good tips, hints and tricks that I've filed mentally and >>come back to when I needed them. >> >>At least cruise http://www.markme.com/mxna/index.cfm?category=ColdFusion >>once a day, man! > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Silver Sponsor - CFDynamics http://www.cfdynamics.com Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:187159 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
