OK, I’ll admit it. It took me a long time to get used to the idea of RSS feeds. I liked the concept, I just hated the implementation. More often than not, subscribing to multiple feeds just led to the feeling that I will never catch up on it all.
Sure, I had my iGoogle start page with a few sites I followed: Lifehacker, Slashdot, and a friend’s blog or two, and that worked fine. That is, until I saw Bradley Robb speak at WordCamp in Richmond. In his presentation, he advised bloggers of the importance of RSS, and setting up Google alerts to get the latest news from the topics they’re most interested in. And my whole outlook on RSS changed.
Yeah, OS X is great. It’s stable. Its UI is quite possibly the most intuitive (well, once you get used to different things being in different places than you’re used to). But it always struck me as odd that the OS used most by designers allows the least amount of customization. Sure you can manually change each icon by hand (Select icon you want to use cmd-c to copy, select app/file you want to use it on, cmd-i to bring up the info pane, select the icon, cmd-v to paste), but that can get very, very tiring when wanting to theme out your entire desktop.
