Antivir / Thunderbird

Antivirus

Norton antivirus sucks people.

There are 2 possible ways of obtaining Norton.

1. Waste time downloading it
2. Waste money buying it

Rinse, lather and repeat once a year. All the while, Norton is consuming an insane amount of system resources.

Or you could download AntiVir Personal Edition 6.27

It’s a free 3 Mb download, only takes up 10 Mb of resources and works damn fine. The only awful thing is no auto update for the frequent updates.

Download it.

RSS reader

I don’t know how everyone else reads blogs, but personally I use a RSS reader such as Thunderbird.

It instantly notifies you of any new updates without clogging up your email. It’s also free and easy to set-up.

How easy is it exactly? I don’t even have to explain it! Look at these pictures

The feed url will look something like this:

http://dickolaswang.blogspot.com/atom.xml
http://www.xanga.com/rss.aspx?user=goc

If someone has a better RSS reader or whatever, let me know already. However, since thunderbird doubles as my gmail email reader, I’m reluctant to switch (Gmail - hey, it has free POP access …although no one knows about my gmail account edwardochung@gmail.com).