{"id":210,"date":"2008-05-12T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T17:46:28","slug":"snackr-dont-read-blogs-snack-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Snackr: Don&#8217;t Read Blogs, Snack On Them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My coworker and friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rictus.com\/muchado\/\">NJ<\/a> has created a new way to read and digest your RSS-syndicated news feeds in the form of a ticker-like desktop application built in Flex and AIR called <a href=\"http:\/\/snackr.net\/\">Snackr<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using it to help him test it out for a month or two now and I have to say it&#8217;s really cool. Prior to Snackr, I read a handful of the feeds I&#8217;ve added to my reader application (mostly those written by my friends or coworkers) and mostly ignored everything else. I just never wanted to spend the time to slog through that huge backlog of news in one sitting, and since I only opened my feed reader once a day at best, I didn&#8217;t have very many sittings. But now that new feed items scroll by the bottom or side of my desktop, I can constantly glance over at the headlines and see if anything interests me. Plus it gives me something to do during a boring meeting or to kill time between tasks (although I&#8217;ll warn you &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t do much to improve your productivity!)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\"Snackr\" href=\"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snackr-screenshot-bottom-full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-227\" title=\"Snackr\" src=\"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snackr-screenshot-bottom-full-650x406.jpg\" alt=\"Snackr\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snackr-screenshot-bottom-full-650x406.jpg 650w, http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snackr-screenshot-bottom-full-300x187.jpg 300w, http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/snackr-screenshot-bottom-full.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can drag the ticker to any of the edges of your monitor, including the edges of a second monitor.<\/li>\n<li>You can change the ticker speed via the preferences (second icon from the left). I like to slow mine down all the way since I find the default speed too distracting.<\/li>\n<li>You can add feeds just by copying the feed URL, clicking on Snackr, and then doing Cmd\/Ctrl-V to paste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, quit reading this and go check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My coworker and friend NJ has created a new way to read and digest your RSS-syndicated news feeds in the form of a ticker-like desktop application built in Flex and AIR called Snackr. I&#8217;ve been using it to help him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/?p=210\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snackr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/usereccentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}