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Chris F. Masse

Information Technology

Contents

Personal Computer Tips
The Best Web Browsers
Information Technology Links
How To Use Site Feeds
The Midas Oracle Feeds
The Software Packages Powering Midas Oracle

1. Personal Computer Tips

Buy a computer that has a big monitor (19″, 21″, or more).
Set the screen resolution of your PC at the maximum (e.g., 1920 x 1080).
(You might augment the size of the font(s) used by your browser and your other software packages.)

That way, you will have more things on your screen.

2. The Best Web Browsers

We recommend open-source software (e.g., Mozilla FireFox, Opera, Google Chrome, etc.).
Please, dump MicroSoft Internet Explorer where it belongs: in the trash can.
We recommend “Verdana” as your browser font, and we recommend that your browser applies it to all webpages (including to the webpages that have already their own styles).

3. Information Technology Links

We are compiling the best IT links for you —see our linkroll under “Information Technology”.
Other list of IT links: Information Technology @ CFM.
Among others, we recommend: Google; Yahoo!; Mozilla FireFox; Mozilla ThunderBird; Programmer’s NotePad; Kompozer; IrFanView; VLC; WordPress; R; etc.

4. How To Use Site Feeds

Site Feeds For Dummies

A great YouTube video on why and how to subscribe to feeds

The Best Feed Readers

Web-based feed readers: Google Reader, iGoogle (with the Google Reader module), BlogLines, NetVibes, PageFlakes, etc.

PC-based feed readers: browsers (MicroSoft Internet Explorer 7+, or Mozilla FireFox), browser extensions (Brief, Sage with Mozilla CSS, or Wizz), cross-platform and open-source software (RSS Owl, or Blog Bridge), etc. Do parameter your feed reader so that it fetches each site feed once an hour, no more.

How To Subscribe To A Feed Via Google Reader

Click on “Add a subscription”;
Paste in the box the URL of the feed you want to subscribe to;
Click “Add”;
Click on “Manage subscriptions” (at the bottom of your list of feeds) to put your new feed in a folder;
Click on “Folder settings” and “Sort by oldest” (in the main view), to read your feed items starting with the oldest items.

Getting Started with Google Reader

Reading Feeds with Google Reader

Sharing Items with Google Reader

Site Feed Advice

I recommend that you read any blog within a Web-based feed reader and I recommend Google Reader;
You should be able to scan-read quickly the items within your feed reader —classify them, tag them, share them, and search them;
Read your feed items starting with the oldest items;
Create a main folder for your most important feeds, and set it as your “start page”. Put your less important feeds in other folders;
Tag the important items that you want to highlight and/or share;
Share items with like-minded people who have good taste;
Perform searches in your archived items —in all of them, by category, by tag, or by feed.

Sharing Feed Items With Friends

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- To share feed items with me (Chris Masse) within Google Reader, go to GMail, click on “Add Contact”. Paste my e-mail address there (chrisfmasse +++at— gmail +dot— com). Once I receive your invite, I’ll accept it.

- Alternatively, send me your GMail e-mail address, and I will activate the relationship.

- You will then see my shared items and I’ll see yours within Google Reader.

- Don’t worry, you can hide me later on, if you don’t like what I share. Just put your mouse cursor on my name on the list, “HIDE” appears, and click on it, and you won’t hear from me anymore.

- I share only the very good stuff on politics (facts + opinions, but coming from multiple horizons, not only from one camp), information technology, business, marketing, finance, prediction markets, etc.

- Chris Masse’s Shared Feed Items at Google Reader

APPENDIX:

- Chris Masse’s Starred Feed Items at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Subscribed Feed Items on Prediction Markets at Google Reader

- Chris Masse’s Subscribed Feed Items on Information Technology at Google Reader

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