We dive into the world of RSS readers and teach you cool cross-platform tips on managing your information feeds to share and consume your favorite content. We take a close look at Google Reader and the Instapaper service with its several API's and teach you some cool tricks to turn those saved articles into podcasts. Spice it up with some cross platform goodness and you are ready for another Knightcast.

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We take a good look at Samsungs proclaimed Iphone Killer in this episode of KWTV filmed in the murky moors of Rijkhoven. We go through the first impressions of Samsungs new flagship phone, take a look at the specs, the android software with touchwiz and see how it holds its own compared to the iphone 4, last years Desire HD and of course compare it to the Galaxy S1

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This week we show you how to upgrade your mac from a "run of the mill' system to a superpowerfull Macbook Pro with the addition of extra RAM an a Solid State drive. For under 300 Dollars you can mutate your mac into the next big thing.

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With the holiday season coming our way its time to review Sony's Tablet S, also known as "the wedge shaped take on Tablet's" by good old Sony. We got the chance to play around with the tablet for a week and give it all of our undivided attention. What looks like a "plasticy" piece of kit, turned out to be a well built, fine shaped high quality tablet at a very nice pricepoint. Click on the link below to read through our full color PDF review of "The tablet Captain Picard would use" ... the Sony Tablet S. 

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4354 articles unread. The number stands out in bold red letters on my otherwise pristine and stark background of my Ipad. It is the "number of items unread" in my RSS feed. Its just a number though, just ONE number of the many messages, news items, tweets, video's podcasts and comments that "await my attention". And still, this fairly hefty number does signify a "select stream" of information I have personally chosen. My own 'slice of what I find interesting online" whom I have piped into my RSS reader. I try to do a mental calculation on how long it would take me to effectively read all of those articles with an average of about 5 or 10 minutes per article. The revelation that only scanning through the headers would take me the better part of the afternoon, is sobering and depressing at the same time. How on earth am I gonna keep up ? 

In the "new normal" of the information age, where filtering has become much more important then 'collecting', it seems that even if we "slice down" our piece of the internet , we are unable to even glance at all the information that is constantly coming our way.  For the umpteenth time, I promise myself I'll spend some time 'culling down' all of those RSS feeds even further. Bringing their number (that has significantly shrunk over time) down ever further.  But 'cutting them down to a lesser number' would be easy, the skill required here is to further 'clarify' and 'purify' the information streams according to my interests and needs for information.

When I was giving a lecture a few days ago I was asked 'How come you know all this stuff ? ' and I must say, I was a little surprised by the question. To be honest , I didn't know. Didn't everybody know this kind of stuff ? I had to think back where along the way I picked all of the stuff I talked about up somewhere and came to a strange conclusion. I know everything I know .. from the internet. Wether it be books that I downloaded (or listened to) articles that I read, TED Talks that I watched and podcasts I listened to. And it got me thinking. …. If a lot of the operational knowledge I have is somehow directly or indirectly from the internet … it becomes pretty important how I filter down those sources of information.

When you start looking at it from that perspective, we 'the index generation', are responsible for the quality of information we select and consume.They do form a lot of the "direct input" in the stuff we know. Where the internet and all things digital had , for a long time, retained the characteristic of being 'leasurly' they are now becoming more important sources of information then, for example, schools or classes.  Perhaps the word 'important' is not well chosen , but they certainly are becoming more and more abundant. And since we humans are shaped by our surroundings and the information in them .. We need to think carefully when we curate that very environment.

Watching cat video's for hours on end, spending evenings on farmville or reading through flimsy gossip websites .. or even munching the mindless yet hilariously funny links on Reddit .. It is all part of the our informational enviroment and it stands in stark contrast to all of the other information that is out there. Ted Talks, Wikipedia articles, Inspiring Youtube video's .. you can go on and on.

So the world has changed. The internet has lost its prime shine as a source for porn, chatting and leisurely activity .. It is becoming the cloud sourced part of or intellectual personality … And we , instead of becoming careless consumers of binary information, now have a responsibility .. the responsibility to curate those information streams for the museum of our mind.

I take a look at the 4000+ unread items and wonder how much useless junk I would stuff into my head on reading them, how much time I would spend doing so and on how much information that is much more valuable .. i would be missing out. Yesterday I surfed the web for fun .. today I am curating the library of my mind …