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New feature I just added to my Blogsphere template...

Category Blogging

Yes, I know about RSS feeds...

Yes, I know I should use a newsreader to follow the blogs on my blog roll...

Sorry, I prefer going to the actual site.

So, I normally click each of the links, launching however many IE windows I need, and then I quickly see if there's anything I want to read in each one.  But being essentially lazy, I really wanted to click a single link and have ALL my blog roll links launch automagically.  Sorta like doing a SuperSearch on MartinScott.com.

If you check out my blog roll, you'll see a link at the bottom labelled "Launch Them All!".  That will launch each of the blogs in a separate window.  Let me know how/if you like it.  If I'm not raked over the coals for such a useless feature (but it's useful to ME!), I'll package up the design elements, ship them off to Declan, and also make them available here for download...

Posted by Tom Duff On 08/20/2003 | | Bookmark and Share

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Gravatar Image1 - First of all, get yourself either a Mozilla based browser, Opera browser or the Avant Browser shell for IE. Every one of those allow you to have tabs within your browser. They also allow you to bookmark a group of tabs. Then you launch the bookmark and all of the tabs open to their respective tabbed windows.

Other than that, I love RSS and newsreaders because then I don't open any pages that haven't been updated. FeedDemon is a nice new reader that's in beta now. From the creator of TopStyle. GoodStuff...

Take Care,
John

Posted by John Roling ("Greyhawk68") At 13:58:20 On 21/08/2003 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image2 - I too tend not to use a newsreader. I like to visit the site to check out new designs, additional side bar info, etc. I use Firebird as well and launch one window with tabs of each blog I read. Pretty stink'in slick!

Posted by Tony Kelleran At 06:19:22 On 21/08/2003 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image3 - IE? IE?? Heh heh. My preferred news reading approach (on the Mac) is to click on whatever links take my fancy in NetNewsWire. When I'm ready, I Apple-Tab to Safari, and BOOM, all the pages are there, each in a separate tab, ready for my perusal. None of this multi-window nonsense...

At work, I fire up Firebird on the PC -- again, it has tabs -- and in Moz-derived browsers you can usuall bookmark a group of tabs. For your purposes I'd suggest this would be ideal. One bookmark for all your daily reads.

Posted by Ben Poole At 01:59:26 On 21/08/2003 | - Website - |


Gravatar Image4 - I might just add the same feature to my blog; but perhaps only for the blogs that don't have RSS feeds.

-rich

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 13:49:15 On 26/08/2003 | - Website - |


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