Monthly Archive for January, 2007

DreamHost Rocks

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Cortland Klein
on 2007 January 24th
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I’ve been happily using DreamHost, a shared web hosting provider, for years. Their continued improvements to their service over that timeperiod has been and will remain well appreciated.

Check them out at dreamhost.com.

P.S.: I’ve made a discount code. 50PIXELS will get you $50 off any plan from them.

Email Routing

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Cortland Klein
on 2007 January 24th
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I was fed/fet up with the spam filter capabilities of most mail clients, as well as the difficulty of setting up a remote spam filter that would connect to my IMAP boxes, so I finally ended up routing all my mail through a gmail account and back into a secret unfiltered email address.

And it’s working.

Until the secret email address becomes compromized, I’ll probably not get much, if any, spam in my boxes. And the best thing about it is that finally my spam filter is not clientside, meaining I can open my IMAP boxes remotely and not see all the spam that my primary client would’ve caught.

Next up is to find a way to have an IMAP spam filter that I could train remotely by moving messages manually into a False Positives and False Negatives folder. That’d be uber-cool.

Ideal RSS Reader

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Cortland Klein
on 2007 January 17th
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I’ve been searching for the perfect RSS reader that would suit my desires:

  • Ability to handle a massive quantity of feeds.
  • Focuses on all the feeds in aggregate, not individual feeds.
  • Sorts entries by predicting my interest in them based on some previous browsing criteria.
  • Automatically unsubscribes from feeds unread for a long time.

At this point, Google Reader seems to be the closest thing to what I’d like, so I’m currently using that. Time will tell if their reader continues to improve or not.