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RSS
It is possible to convert an RSS feed to iCal format. Now your Timex Data Link watch can read iCal, so you could read your 'blogs on your watch. Not very useful, but rather interesting. Someone will be doing it just to show how leading edge they are.
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Off Topic - Gaming
I've never played e-games. When Pac-Man came out tried it once or twice then stopped. Wasn't fun for me. Same with all the many games in the years since. I once or twice visited a MUD, found it dull. Rather watch re-runs of 3s Company. So it was...
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Timex Data Link Watch
An appeal for help. My Timex Data Link watch can no longer receive info from the computer. The bar codes begin but then the screen is minimized and breaks the transmission. The watch is an older technology, but it still works for me. If any one has a...
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Rss
This is an interesting application of RSS, sending it via Instant Messaging. The RSS-IM Gateway allows a site with an RSS feed to make their feed available via an IM network. You do need the ability to load files on the same machine as the 'blog....
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Web Logs
Web logs, what are they good for? Steven M. Cohen recently addressed the issue of why we write them, but why do we read them? In what instances do they work?Here are my views. First, they are one-to-many or a few-to-many format. Topics that require give...
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Information Access
My wife uses a handheld as a replacement for her Franklin Planner. I get by fine with my old Timex Data Link. This past weekend I was messing with her PDA and installed AvantGO on it and selected Catalogablog as my channel. It worked rather nicely. It...
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