Google Reader is one of our favorite ways to consume news, it’s web-based, accessible on any computer and offers a variety of nice sharing, bookmarking and other features. However Reader is not without its drawbacks, including one very big one: it can’t handle password-protected news feeds. Google Reader isn’t the only online feed reader that [...]

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In colloquial usage, a “steep learning curve” means the knowledge in question takes longer to learn; a “shallow learning curve” means it’s a nice quick process. If you actually plot a learning curve, though, with time on the x axis and understanding on the y axis, you’ll see that your intuition fails you. A steeper [...]

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At long last Microsoft has released the third Windows XP service pack to manufacturing and the update will be available to the public on April 29. The rather quiet announcement came Monday after repeated delays caused Microsoft to push back the release of XP SP3. Unlike Windows XP SP2, which was for all intents and [...]

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