Neat little Explorer trick

I was in the process of clearing out some junk the other day on my computer and found out explorer has a neat little ability.

First of all make sure you have the address bar on inside of windows explorer

Now navigate to any folder on your computer. Now see the little icon next to the name of the folder in the address bar? Drag it to the desktop, it will create shortcut. Nothing too exciting right? I'm sure some of you knew this already

Now, drag that icon to the recycle bin. It now deletes the folder. I'm not sure how useful this is, but possibly if you are currently inside a folder you could drag that to the recycle bin instead of going up on folder, selecting the folder and deleting that

RSS and firefox

I've noticed that with the newest firefox that it has RSS feeds.

Too bad it's a really bad setup. If firefox knows there's an rss feed it will show a little icon on the lower right hand side of the window. If firefox doesn't realize it's an rss feed, you have to go into the bookmark manager and add a "live bookmark" , and know that live bookmark = rss feed. All the feeds then show up as bookmarks. Just an awfully confusing setup all around

So what's a firefox user to do?

Use the Habari Xenu extension
http://habarixenu.mozdev.org/

Now you open up a separate tab with the newsfeeds. You get the synopsis like you should, and each click and optionally load up in a new window

I've been a long time fan of sharpreader ( http://www.sharpreader.net/) but the combination of firefox and Habari Xenu has it beat.

By jove I think I got it!

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