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With so many RSS feeds out there in cyber-space, it can be difficult to follow all the blogs and websites that interest you. A news reader (technically, a "feed aggregator") can help you sort it all out. A news reader can "check" the web site's feed to see if there is new content to display. But which news reader is right for you? Basically, there are two types of feed reader: Browser based and stand alone. Browser Based Readers A browser based reader is and Internet web site which allows you to subscribe to and read newsfeeds using your favorite Internet browser. Examples of these are: Google Reader News Gator My Yahoo Bloglines Some of the advantages of these types are (typically) the feeds are not downloaded to your computer, (except perhaps your browser's cache) and therefore do not take up space on your hard drive. Secondly, your activity (read feeds, subscribing, etc.) carries over from device to device. For example, if you mark feeds as read on...

Quicklook - look at file content without opening a program. New with Mac OS X Leopard is a program called Quicklook. This time saving utility enables a user to view the contents of a file without having to open the program used to edit it. For example, say you have a PDF document and want to quickly review its contents. Normally one would have to open Preview in order to see it. Now with Quicklook, one can simply touch the spacebar and the file 'opens' on screen instantly. You can scroll, view in full screen and even move on to the next file without having to open any other program. Accessing Quicklook is easy. In any finder window simply higlight the file and touch the spacebar. Alternatively, just click on the Quicklook icon. (It looks like an eye) Quicklook will open image files, text, PDF, spreadsheets, documents and even movies! Below is a quick video showing Quicklook in action. There are plugins available that allow Quicklook to work with folders and other suppor...