Vlad

Apparently they have nothing in common. Vista is a bloat. Office 2007 is just a funny menu showcase. Outlook’s spam filtering is pathetic and Live! Search sucks and takes forever. And… you get to use them on a daily basis. Your email piles up in the inbox, spam flourishes and you have no clue where in the 8 GB of archived messages is the one you’re looking for.

Plugins to the rescue: SpamBayes and Lookout. Don’t get fooled by their venerable age: these oldies still rock.

DISCLAIMER: These are not officially supported. You might render your Vista inoperable and have to install Windows XP instead. Wait, that’s not nearly half that bad!

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I’m generally not a Google fanboy. Really! Though, I do think their search is the best thing since sliced bread and Gmail is the greatest free service (just a figure of speech, nothing is free these days). And I love the Reader.

Web feeds (RSS or Atom) are great if you want to track blogs, discussions, news and web sites of all kind. I’ve been using them for some time and I have a strong feeling I’ll stick to them some more. But consuming them is a long story. In time I’ve used numerous systems. Some were desktop apps, others were web services. I’ve had my share of passing OPMLs from one program/service to another. Read more »