need an easy way to keep your favorite software applications up to date? ever miss out on a newly released update patch, an important technote, or an urgent security bulletin? how do you know when macromedia has published new developer center content that might show you some new timesaving techniques, or introduce you to an important emerging technology?
staying on top of the latest official development news is not easy. and what about all the hundreds of interesting weblogs out there? in my opinion, there are two ways to stay current with the latest information: the easy way, and the hard way.
staying informed...the hard way
the hard way is to create bookmarks for all the different content you are interested in and set aside time to visit dozens of different locations online everyday. going out and gathering information manually in this fashion is not particularly efficient for several reasons: downloading takes time. even over the fastest of connections, you still have to wait a fair amount of time for content to download, and the content that takes the longest to download (ads, graphics, etc.) is usually the content you are least interested in seeing. you have to figure out each new interface. each of the dozens of sites i keep up with has a dramatically different interface with very different navigation. although most of us are pretty accustomed to the inconsistency of the internet by now, the time it takes to adapt to new and often very congested interfaces (as product and new... 下一页