Hell YES! I'd be totally lost without RSS.

This is the big problem with laptop screens: they're fixed in landscape. Great for movies, bad for anything involving words.

You left out the most important change you can make to improve your online reading experience: put your monitor in portrait mode.

I'm really, really leery of this ...

VOTE: RSSOwl

RssOwl

The fact that the author of this piece felt it necessary to write the sentence "Not sure what usenet is?" and the fact that some commenters clearly don't know what the usenet is, makes me feel very old.

Your problem is not on the Pipes end. It's on the RSS reader end. Let me guess: Google Reader? Google Reader's refresh interval depends on how many other people are using the same feed. A popular feed updates very fast. Your Pipes feed, which has exactly one reader, not very often at all. I believe Netvibes works…

Nowhere near as good as Yahoo's Pipes.

It seems you can add sites manually at this link: [www.google.com]

That link is incredible. I stopped using Adobe Reader years ago because I thought it was a bloated beast. Now I know why it's a bloated beast. Wow!

I just don't understand this show. They can time travel. So why time travel back to the days of the dinosaurs? That just seems plain stupid. Better they should travel back to the Pleistocene.

@jp182: That's for a priority support option. Look below there for the free links. Agreed it's a bit confusing.

One nice thing: it can tell if your screen is in landscape or portrait. (Mine is in portrait.)

@p|-|15|-|: I switched from my awesome custom HTML based home page to a Netvibes based paged with loads of custom HTML widgets (mostly categories of links) a few years ago. It works very well and is a really nice middle ground between fully custom HTML and a start page service.

I can't help but think that the ceaseless myriad of problems and glitches that Netvibes has had since their Wasabi "upgrade" (there's a joke) contributed to their poor showing in this survey.

@Unionhawk: You should not underestimate the distraction-free nature of white and other background noise. It can be like audible ear-plugs.

Screw the birds. Make a squirrel feeder instead. They're much more awesome!

@Robomaster: Actually, the new feed reader pretty much rips off feedly.

@robinfrance: Yes, some of those things I took as normal beta glitches (mismatches on post counts etc). But the last few days everything tanked almost completely. They're "working on it," but for the moment Wasabi is unusable.