Irony

With all the hype around chrome, I wanted to point out to a few readers that you can have chrome without the google.
SRW Iron is one of these, it happens to be the version I use for site compat testing.

You can find it here: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

NOTE: The site might look a bit fishy at first glance, but it's legit.

(In all fairness I split my own usage between FireFox with adblock+ and Opera, chrome just lacks some features I like. It also handles a few sites poorly, but that could very well be sloppy coding by the webmasters)

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Buzzbird
Also tried buzzbird, seems a very nice little twitter client.
Was looking for a desktop client that was small, simple, open source and that did not require a large 3rd party platform like AIR or .NET.
Still marked beta, but I have had no serious gripes so far.

UPDATE:Hm, it seems to lose the 'read' flag whenever the program is closed. Also cannot find a filter for say updates within the last hour/day.

To get it go here: http://getbuzzbird.com/bb/

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RSSOwl 2.0.4


The current rssowl version seems more stable than the one I tried over a year ago. So far no gripes.