4 Minutes with: FeedDemon on the EEE PC

One of my goals for 2008 is to jazz up sean.blog with some multimedia.  I am planning to do a weekly spot called 4 minutes with:, where I will record a 4 minute video or screencast on something that is interesting to me that week.  This is episode #1.  I recently purchased an EEE PC, and one of it’s primary uses is as an Internet machine.  Besides Firefox, the other main Internet application I install on any computer is FeedDemon for reading RSS feeds.  This video is a quick look at how FeedDemon can be setup to work real nice on the EEE PC.

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Show Notes:

I have FeedDemon setup with some keystrokes that work well for me.  You can configure pretty much every keystroke, and add a keystroke to pretty much any function by pressing CTRL+K in FeedDemon.  I have FeedDemon configured to show the Popular Topics page by pressing F7, and show the subscriptions page by pressing CTRL+Home.  The Ctrl+F11 key toggles the display of the sidebar, and F11 toggles the feed item list view.  Keystrokes are a huge plus on the EEE PC since you can pretty much hold this thing in two hands and drive it like a mobile device with a thumb board, plus the touchpad (while very nice) is a bit small.

Sorry about the mouse clicks, and the sort of garbled audio in some spots.  Still working on the whole process.

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