I’ve been a long-time user of NetNewsWire, an excellent RSS reader for the Mac. Since their acquisition by NewsGator I was looking forward to synchronization with NewsGator’s online service. As I was playing around with the latest beta’s sync ability I stumbled on a reference to “NewsGator Mobile.”

Always a sucker for making my mobile phone (Blackberry 7100t) do things it wasn’t desgined to do well, I tried it out. Well, tried to try it out but I couldn’t find how to get it working.

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Last night I placed an order (from Dell) for a Nikon D50 with 18-55mm lens. My trusty (and old) Olympus C3000 Zoom broke a couple of years ago and after the first repair I didn’t feel like dropping the cash for another repair. That Olympus took nice photos for a point-and-shoot but I disliked the shutter lag. The matching underwater housing started losing its appeal when all I got was missing fish with a backdrop of coral.

The idea of spending $400-$600 on another consumer point-and-shoot digital seemed like a waste of money when a digital SLR could be had for $600 to $1000. So after many reviews against the Canon Rebel XT and comparing against Timbo’s Nikon D70 and his friend’s Canon EOS 20D I went with the D50. It’s a solid camera in the hand with imaging quality almost identical to its older brother, the D70. I’m looking forward to fast shutter speed and real macro photography…until I see the cost of the lens.