SpottedWalrus

If you like sIFR, you should definitely check out swfIR.

So I admin, I’m a bit of a feed whore. I’ve got some 150+ feeds that I subscribe to. I really, really love information. It’s just exciting to me to see all of this info coming in. Do I read all of it? Of course not. I skim and if a subject line catches my eye, then I move forward with it.

But the problem I’m been having lately is deciding if it makes sense to actually put all of these feeds into categories in my feed reader.

I’m a bit OCD when it comes to file organization, but I’m also practical. It seems a bit pointless to categorize them when I’m going to go through all the new articles anyways.

So right now I just have a big “All Feeds” folder in NewsFire.

What do you do? Do you organize your feeds? Any particular reason you do that?

So, I think I’ve injured my right pinky…and it wasn’t doing anything manly like chopping down trees or chopping people in the face.

I’ve got a nice, sharp pain that shoots through my pinky whenever I’m using my keyboard…which is like 12 hours a day. It seems to revolve around the movement my hand makes when hitting the ‘delete’ key on my keyboard. Basically I think I’m overextending my pinky muscle.

Man…how unmanly is that?

This reminds me of a recent snickers commercial…I think I’ll go and rip out some chest hair now so I don’t feel like a pansy.

For ages I’ve used Apple’s Mail.app for all my mail needs. But over the past year or so I’ve consolidated a lot of things and only have a few email addresses now. I’ve even, for the most part, started using Gmail for business email as well.

Do you tend to use a local app or a web based client like Gmail? Have you found any real benefit of it over a local app?

While LOST may be going down the drain, you can still enjoy making your pantry look like the hatch with some Dharma Initiative labels.

Late last night/early this morning, a killer new app for OS X launched.

Bandwagon is a way for Mac iTunes users to regularly backup their entire iTunes collection. But instead of backing up your files to an external drive at your home (which still stands the possibility of getting stolen or damaged), Bandwagon uses Amazon’s S3 web service to store all of your music.

On top of just having a cool service, they’ve got a great UI to handling all of this.

Yep, a simple menu bar icon provides pretty much all of the functionality you need.

There is also a great search utility for seeing what you’ve backed up as well as selective restoration.

Right now they have introductory pricing of $69/year through the end of February. After that it will be $99/year. At the current price its around $0.18 per day. Not bad at all considering it keeps every last beat of music safe and sound.

Web 2.0 Scrabble

Great article by James at Forty Media about attention mapping the important elements of a design.

Adam Betts is at it again. He’s just put out a cool little hack to add custom dividers to your dock.

This week’s Album of the Week goes to the new Anberlin album, Cities.

It’s not a huge departure from previous albums but it definitely rocks harder.

Favorite tracks so far are Adelaid, Hello Alone, Dismantle.Repair., and slow-rocker Inevitable.