FeedRinse, which launched last March is a great filtering service for your RSS feeds. The purpose of FeedRinse is to hide items that match key words or authors that you don't want to see. You get total control over your feeds, and can easily filter articles and content that wouldn't really interest you. It's one way to prevent information overload which isn't too hard to do with RSS.

At the end of December, there was quite the buzz over PayPerPost acquiring part of Performancing, know for their blogging tools such as metrics, and their blog advertising network. PayPerPost was to acquire their metrics and classifieds exchange. Only days later, PayPerPost backed out on the acquisition.

Despite the fact that the official launch of Windows Vista is not until January 30th, some retailers show that they have it in stock, and ready to ship.  One such store is Newegg, and their website shows that they have Vista 32-Bit Ultimate 3 Pack DVD-OEM for $599.99, Vista 64-Bit Home premium 3 Pack DVD-OEM for $349.99, and Vista 32-Bit Business Single Pack DVD-OEM for $149.99.

WordPress 2.1 Ella has been released, and it's ready for download.  With over 550 bug fixes, and quite the list of new features, it should definitely be worth the upgrade.  There are too many features to list,(view the complete list here) but here are some that caught my eye:

I was surely surprised this morning to wake up to news that Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 has been released! I knew that it would be sometime this month but I figured it wouldn't come until next week.

Last week I wrote an article on freeware applications that let you arrange your windows in a more organized, and productive fashion. Then in the comments Everton mentioned an application that he found that lets you minimize windows to the System Tray.