Nathan Eckenrode

Nathan is a geek living in New York City. His first computer was a TRS 80 Color Computer and he's been hooked on technology ever since. He has recently finished an Interdisciplinary Degree at NYIT with focuses in Computer Science, Mathematics and Business. He has worked in Film & Television Production, on a dot-com company, as a Nuclear Reactor Operator, represented the Ubuntu User Community at the UN and once played guitar for a punk rock band. He keeps a blog dedicated to his creative urges at http://nacreo.us and really likes using his iPhone to pacify his kids.

Recent Posts

Manage Your RSS Feed In Mac With NetNewsWire

By | March 19, 2010 |

NetNewsWire-logoThe Internet has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, so you know you want to read it. Of course, you realize that going to every single website on the internet is a really inefficient way to actually attempt to read the whole thing, that’s why the RSS protocol was invented to make reading the web easier.

Introducing the Feeds in the Cloud

I have been an avid user of Google Reader as I really enjoyed the sharing functions that Google has built into the product. The one thing I did not enjoy about Google Reader, it may seem a small thing to some, was the aesthetic choices of the design time. I find the interface to be downright ugly.

From the Clouds back to the Desktop

So, I began to look for a Desktop Application that would fit the gap, and that is where I found NetNewsWire. NetNewsWire is made by NewsGator. They have a fancy pay version, which I am certain has a couple extra bells and whistles hooked into the app, but the free version is just fine by me. The Ads in the free version are hardly intrusive at all, you might not even really notice them.
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GeekTool: Turn Your Mac’s Desktop Into An Information Center

By | March 9, 2010 |

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Being a geek, you have the urge to modify everything you own. That’s of course applies to your desktop as well. You saw how your Linux friends can modify their desktop and display information with Conky and you are dying to have the same setting in Mac. If that is the case, then GeekTool is the one you are looking for.

GeekTool is a System Preferences module for Mac OS 10.5. It allows you to display information on your Mac desktop so you can quickly check out the time, your Twitter stream, or any other things without any hassle.
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