Subscriber

For Mac users who read lots of blogs, or other sites that tend to have frequent updates, my friend David Deutsch has written the indispensible Subscriber program. It will automatically inform you of changes to the sites you visit, so you never have to manually check them yourself. But unlike most subscription features built into browsers, you can customize it so that it only reports changes of substance, rather than, for example, a new ad appearing on the sidebar. It's saved me time worth well in excess of the $9.99 it costs to register, and there's a 30-day free trial.

For Windows users, click here.

There's obviously a conspiracy between Davids to make me buy a Mac. It's working. Damn you and your excellent computers.

Wha...? Looks like the definition of "excellent" somehow mutated into "susceptible to crashing with little or no provocation". Why wasn't I informed of this change?

Damn it, I'm always the last to find out about these things :\

Kelli, I'm about to strip you of your posting privileges if you keep bad-mouthing Macs.

Kelli --

You are obviously describing my current horrible XP box, or my Performa from 10 years ago. Neither of those comes close to approaching the awesomeness of David's g4.

Let me know when you get a machine that can run Microsoft SQL Server without some hokey real-computer-emulator.

Gil:

I can certainly understand why you'd choose a lousy operating system in order to run an essential program. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. But, as I have absolutely no need to run Microsoft SQL Server, and a pressing need for an interface and OS structure that's conducive to using the programs I do need to use well, I'll be purchasing a Macintosh.

See, now I have to go and buy a mac.