Mc Cabe Wrote:What happens if you don't have your computer and you're using a a computer, say, in the library?

This is exclusively for my home computer, which I'm usually on during the holidays.  But nothing says you can't have both :P  (also some integrate with Google I believe)

Mc Cabe Wrote:Extensions/plugins can be easily added to a website to allow a popup notification. You can add even easily a notification in the tab, but I'm guessing you don't want the website open all the time.

That, and website popups are different (especially if you block popups lol) and don't give audio cues (I disable Flash).

Mc Cabe Wrote:I'm not sure about loading speeds but my point about using the desktop application offline is that the reader becomes obsolete without a connection to the internet, not straight away but as soon as all the cached articles have been read.

And an online application is even more useless without a connection :P

Mc Cabe Wrote:Furthermore google reader is lightning fast as well as all other Google products. I guess if you have a bad connection, a desktop application may be the way to go, but that still won't avoid connection errors to websites/RSS Feeds.

Something faster is better than something slower, right?

Mc Cabe Wrote:One more thing I like about web applications is that they update frequently and seamlessly. You don't have to download anything, go through any install update wizard.

AJAX may look seamless to the user, but that's about it.  I actually don't want seamless updates, lol.

Mc Cabe Wrote:Why dya hate web apps so much Zinga?

I could go on for a long time on this subject - maybe I'll make a post about it some time.

Mc Cabe Wrote:You know they're the future...in Google's eyes ;)

I don't believe in early adoption :P

FeedReader looks nice :P

^ it is nice, but as of last week I switched to Google Reader.

It's either MAL Updater 3 and/or FeedReader causing the Network Service svchost.exe to spike.

My suggestion - if you get the opportunity to say Yes or No to downloading enclosures..... SAY NO.. or else its CPU Usage will max out first core.

outlook 2007 has rss feeds  :tard:  probably not the best, or something you want but it always pops up asking if i have feeds i want to add when setting up new users and the thought just popped in my mind

Thanks for the suggestions.

@ McCabe..

It doesn't matter how you look at it.. Web Apps may be the future (inevitably, because of our requirement for greater and greater convenience) but wee all know.. if the server goes down.. you can't access spoon.

It may be an extremely unlikely.. once a month event.. but along with the idea of Cloud Computing.. it seems TOO external.

I much prefer the idea of having a home server (cloud) which other machines can use.

At least that way you can get right at your data.. and your programs at will.

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- Your HDD will always be faster than any internet connection (even if it's rated faster than your HDD); it's like buying a really really slow HDD and putting your apps on it
- You have more control over apps installed on your PC
- As with above, if the service provider decides to fold, or charge for their service, or sPa/\/\ you with ads, you're stuck with it
- Pretty much guaranteed not to have third party development; can't make extensions to the app yourself, neither can anyone else
- Lock-in - usually difficult to switch to a new application if your current one has a lot of stored stuff on it
- Privacy
- Security - really unlikely that someone is going to try take your computer down - different thing for websites
- Web apps rely on your connection not dying.  Google is only going to go down once in a blue moon, but the same cannot necessarily be said for home connections; your power could die too, as well as your hardware, but web apps put reliance on yet another thing

Benefits:
- Portability - both physically and across platforms (ie Windows «> Linux)
- Potentially less setup, especially if you reformat often (but it could be more of a hassle depending on the application)
- "Instant" upgrades
- Potentially better connection with others (networking)

What I can think of off the top of my head - probably could think of more, but I personally prefer offline applications unless I really need one of the benefits of online apps.