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Some techy news

// October 9th, 2005 // Personal

Just a couple of things you’re no doubt aware of that have hit my radar over recent weeks:

Google Reader – Following on from Gmail Google have released a web based RSS feed reader in much the same vain as Bloglines. The difference being of course that Google Reader is powered by the same technology that makes GMail so easy to use and is backed by Google’s massive hardware resource hopefully meaning the feeds are updated faster than Bloglines! If you don’t yet have a feed reader and would like the flexibility of having all your feeds on-line then go give it a whirl.

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Macromedia have released the next major version of their industry standard website design and management software. This release adds a load of additional support for standards based development including XHTML and CSS. The interface has also been improved with support for collapsing tags and commenting blocks from a new toolbar on the left of the code view window. Finally the renderer has been updated to handle CSS based layouts in WYSIWYG mode – hopefully Contribute will follow suit sharpish.