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ExpressCard Media Card Reader for MacBook Pro

I recently pur­chased this from eBay: adapterbest. Works pretty good.

This thing is tiny. I almost for­got what I pur­chased as the pack­age that came from HK was pretty small.

Here are some specs:

  • Sup­port ExpressCard/34 and ExpressCard/54 slot
  • Sup­port SDHC format
  • Sup­port mul­ti­ple flash cards:
    • With­out adapter: SDHC, SD, MMC, MMC­plus, M.S., M.S. PRO and xD
    • With adapter (NOT included): microSD, min­iSD, MMC­mo­bile, RSMMC, M.S. Duo, M.S. PRO Duo
  • Rugged and reli­able stain­less steel cover
  • Size: 34.2 mm x 75 mm x 5 mm
  • Sup­port Win­dows 2000 and XP, and Mac 10.4 and above

PS. Here’s how it looks injected into the slot.

Services Like FeedXS to Reinvent Blogging?

FeedXS

Other than it’s bold ORANGE color, FeedXS launched yes­ter­day. A Netherland-based company,

FeedXS gives every­one in the world and every busi­ness its own per­sonal feed. By cre­at­ing a feed, every­one who sub­scribes to your feed, will always be on top of your lat­est news.

It’s totally FREE!

Mean­while, while this looks like a promis­ing web appli­ca­tion, I won­der how it will effect the Blo­gos­phere. By read­ing the Per­sonal Feeds tour sec­tion, I under­stand that you pretty much just add entries and pub­lish them to your feed. Some­what like the work­flow on Blogger.com (or any blog­ging tool) but instead of pub­lish­ing your lat­est entry on a web­page, it updates/appends your lat­est entry to the feed.

Will we see a decrease in blog-site cre­ation in the future because of ser­vices like FeedXS? Peo­ple are always want­ing to take the easy route. I see this as one of those things. But, blog­gers are a dif­fer­ent class of their own. They seem to want every­thing they cre­ate and write under their com­plete con­trol; for me at least. Also, what would hap­pen to those blog­gers who get some cheese by writ­ing great con­tent (i.e. Om Malik, Andy Budd and Michael Arring­ton to name the least)?

Inter­ac­tion. What willl hap­pen to the com­mu­ni­ca­tion that blogs thrive on between the author and his/her read­ers? I guess this is a draw­back. Instead of just post­ing a com­ment on the entry page of the post, one will have to click on the entry’s archive page URL; that’s even if the author has a site. I guess I just see this prod­uct as a one-way ser­vice. Even though it’ll be easy for every­one to pub­lish an RSS feed, it does not pro­vide the read­ers a way to give a way to send feed­back or thoughts back to the author. Or does it?

SearchFox Bites the Dust

I just got an email from Este­ban Kozak, Prod­uct Man­ager of Search­Fox, with the fol­low­ing sad news:

Search­Fox will shut down on Jan­u­ary 25, 2006

Thanks for all your help in mak­ing Search­Fox what it is. We have enjoyed pro­vid­ing this ser­vice, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your RSS sources before the site shuts down. In accor­dance with our pri­vacy pol­icy, we will delete all per­sonal infor­ma­tion on Jan­u­ary 25 after we shut down the services.

This came as a com­plete sur­prise to me. Noth­ing in the blo­gos­phere sig­naled it’s peril or what have you. Oh man, I guess it’s back to News­ga­tor for me till I find another web-based RSS-reader that can do the job the way Search­Fox did it.

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