Wednesday 19 October 2011

RSS / Atom Feed Reader Tools for Window

 

Omea

  • Omea is one of the most fully featured RSS readers.
  • It has advanced version with more features, can get a little slow as its database grows, free in its basic version, also has a commercial.

Mozilla Thunderbird

  • Thunderbird is a free email application that's easy to set up and customize and it's loaded with great features.
  • Mozilla’s e-mail and RSS reader, supports skins and add-ons.

Awasu

  • Awasu is a RSS reader with a customizable user interface, bookmarking and annotation, and republishing of your feeds the ability to synchronize with other readers.

GreatNews

  • GreatNews is a faster  reader.
  • It makes automatic news highlights.
  • It also save important articles and organize them
  • It integrates with Blog lines, and offers a very fast way to browse through your feeds.

RSS Bandit

  • RSS reader that offers organization of your feeds through folders, as well as synchronization across several installations.
  • IntraVNews

  • IntraVNews is  an RSS reader that integrates with Microsoft’s Outlook.
  • SharpReader

    • Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
    • Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the <wfw:commentrss> standard).
    • Group subscribed feeds into custom categories.
    • Feed settings like refresh-rate and purge timeout can be set per feed or per category. Category-wide settings apply to all feeds in that category that are still set to "Default" for the setting in question.
    • Dialog-less way of subscribing to new feeds - just drag a link from your browser into SharpReader, or enter the url into the address-bar at the top.
    • Feedster integration to easily search weblogs and newssites for specific terms, and even subscribe to such a search to be notified of new results.
    • Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication.
    • Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding.
    • Minimizes to the system-tray.
    • Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane).
    • Easy keyboard navigation to go the next or previous unread item.
    • Import and export your subscriptions using OPML.

     

    eCruiser

  • RSS reader in Japanese

  • Juice

  • Juice a pretty basic RSS reader

  • Opera

  •   Opera web browser comes with a fully featured RSS reader

  • FeedDemon

  •   Newsgator’s feed reader offering a high degree of customization, newspaper-style feed reading, synchronization with other Newsgator products, and feed search

  • Snarfer

  • Snarfer is a free RSS reader, with key features being river of news style view, embedded video display, synchronization with Bloglines, powerful search and filtering
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    Active RSS Reader

  • It is a simple RSS reader with a very small hard disk and memory footprint

  • Feed Amasser

  • It is a very lightweight, freeware RSS reader

  • FeedExpress

  • FeedExpress is a freeware, open source RSS reader; quite basic, but with some nice features, for example CSS customization

  • Crackfeed

  • Crackfeed is a tiny systray based application that notifies you with RSS news as they come

  • HappyFish 

  • RSS reader and podcast client, requires .NET 2.0

  • Attensa for Outlook

  • RSS reader that fully integrates with Outlook, support OPML import/export, scheduling, republishing, and advanced feed organization

  • Briz RSS Reader

  • It is a very simple RSS reader
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    Particls

  • Particls desktop RSS notifier and ticker with lots of options, also has a Firefox plugin

  • Anothr

  • RSS reader/bot for Skype/Gtalk/MSN
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    RSSOwl

  • It works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Offers, among other features, a multi-pane, highly customizable interface, OPML and blog roll import, internal browser, and a search engine

  • BottomFeeder

  • BottomFeader is a rich-featured multiplatform RSS reader (works on Linux as well as Windows and OS X), supports CSS customization, OPML import/export, and plugins
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    BlogBridge

  • It open source RSS aggregator that allows you to create dynamic feed reading lists
  • Thursday 13 October 2011

    5 Best Google Applications

     

    Cloud9

    Cloud9 is lightweight and very fast. Cloud9 IDE is a full development environment in Chrome. You can edit, run, debug your code and collaborate with others on your projects. Cloud9 has full NodeJS debugging and live JavaScript syntax checking. Syntax Highlighters are available for all popular languages and there’s Text Mate theming support.

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    Pixlr Editor

    Pixlr Editor is the most popular advanced photo editor online. Pixlr Editor contains lots of the features that you normally see in desktop apps but just one click away. If you are used to working with Gimp, Paint shop pro or even Photoshop you will feel right at home with this online image editor.  Jump in and start using this tool, no registration required and loads in matter of seconds.

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    ScreenSh00ter

    It is a outstanding apps. ScreenSh00ter creates a screenshot of what is visible on the entire screen, inside ScreenSh00ters frame or a rectangular area you draw on your screen by clicking and dragging your mouse.

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    Logo Maker

    The main feature of Logo Maker is that it supports Load/Save project locally (on your computer) so you can easily save your work and resume/open project later. Logo Maker is a web apps that helps you create/edit logos and images. You can add/edit images, text, symbols and download logos as PNG images.

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    SnapPages

    SnapPages makes web design so easy, anyone can do it. If you need a simple but professional quality website that you can completely update and maintain with no hassle, then this is the best apps for you.

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    Wednesday 12 October 2011

    Best Google + tools

     

    Google+Facebook

    Now there is a extension called Google+Facebook that allows you to see your Facebook stream inside Google+. Simply Connect to Facebook, and get all the updates on your Google+ Facebook tab.

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    G+ Count in Title

    Places the Google+ notification count in parenthesis in the document title located in the page tab. While you are viewing pages in other tabs, you can see how many notifications you have in Google+. The count is placed at the beginning of the title so that it can still be seen when the title is long, such as when you are viewing a profile. If you pin the tab or, depending on the size of your window, have a lot of tabs open then this extension is useless.

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     Google+Tweet

    Google+Tweet integrates a full featured twitter client inside your Google Plus Account! A full featured twitter client for Google+! View your timeline, url shortening, photo sharing and more.

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    Tweets +1

    Adds the Google +1 Button to twitter.com (aka New Twitter). This extension lets you +1 tweets directly from Twitter, plus see how many other +1′s a tweet has received!

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    Facebook Friend Exporter

    Get your data contact out of Facebook, whether they want you to or not. You gave them your friends and allowed them to store that data, and you have right to take it back out! Facebook doesn’t own my friends.

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    GPlus+ Search

    Search Public GPlus Content, Social Search , Makes Searching Your Stream Easy.

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    G+ ME

    G+me is a Google Chrome browser extension that enhances the Google+ web application  to unlock the potential of its real-time updates and make it much easier to process a large stream of incoming posts and comments.

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    +1 Plus One Extension

    This extension let you +1 any web page. Just simple as one click.

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    Helper for Google+

    Add extra functions the Google+. Get desktop notifications on new posts. Share Posts via twitter. Translate posts with Google Translate. Bookmark posts faster for reading later (also to delicious.com). Linked #hash tags. Search in posts and profiles directly from your Omni box.

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     +Photo Zoom

    +Photo Zoom is a simple extension providing fast and simple zooming for photos within your Google+ Stream. Just hover over the image you wish to zoom and +Photo Zoom will load the enlarged version of the picture.

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    Tuesday 11 October 2011

    Top 15 Skype Tools

     

    Skype to RJ11 Adapter

    If you want to any call forward, you can do it because this is the main feature in it. Forward calls from Skype to cellphone and back again. $63.90.

    RapidBox

    RapidBox is very useful tool, in it USB connect box that lets you hook up your normal phone to Skype. $49.95.

    Flash Phone F1K

    It is the best feature that it’s Clever USB flash drive with Skype on-board. Plug and call technology. $46.90

    Web2Skype

    You can send messages to Skype from any web browser, anywhere.

    EpyxMobile

      Cellphone to Skype calls and back. Pro and Net versions are free.

    Talking Headz

    In it you can use animated avatars for chat.

    MuteForSkype

    It’s auto mute for Win amp or Media Player when you receive a Skype call.

    World Clock

    World Clock is not a normal clock it show the local time of the person you are talking to.

    Call Calculator

    Call Calculator is work out your call cost savings.

    Skype Journal

    It is not an add-on as such, but a nice Skype blog. Very useful.

    Spontania video4IM

      The best Skype video plug-in around. Yes, it’s free.

    Amy

    Amy’s best feature is auto answer, voicemail and Delayed Messaging software.

    MiTunes

    MiTunes is pause iTunes when a Skype call arrives.

    Jyve

    Jyve is very cool technology and graphics to Skype enable your website.

    Audiomatic

    Audimatic works very cool. It control Skype using audio voice commands. $29.95

    Monday 10 October 2011

    Best Useful Google+ Tools

     

    Google Plus Bar

      This is a very simple and neat bookmark let which adds an audio/video bar on top of your Google+ stream.  For now the following channels are available, Amazing Radio, DFH Radio, Groove shark, BBC News and TWiT live stream options.

     

    Facebook Friends Exporter

     The most controversial chrome extension which exports all your Facebook friends to Google Contacts which helps you get all your friends in your ‘Friends’ Circle easily. Being very useful for all those who plan to move from Facebook to Google+, Facebook somehow managed to block its use all over thus making the developer Mohamed Mansour to work on it again and make it work.

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     Google+ Photo Zoom

    Just move your mouse over the image and +Photo Zoom would do its work. Images are posted in fixed size on Google+ and there is no way you could zoom those and check them if needed. So this is a very simple chrome extension which allows you to zoom any photo published on your stream. 

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    Move2Picasa

    This website lets you connect to your Facebook account, after which all your Facebook photos and albums will be migrated over to Google’s Picasa service.  Once moved to Picasa, they are practically on Google+ making your job to move from Facebook to Google+ much more easy.

     

    Google+ Vanity URL

    Sharing your profile with anyone is difficult, Google+ profiles are linked via the profile id which is a long number. This gets annoying when you have to type in your Google+ profile link anywhere. An official vanity url might come but till then we have this simple web app to make it easy.

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    Surplus

    The notifications on Google+ are amazing, but to actually have them pop up on your browser, you need to be on one of the Google websites. Making this more easy and helping Google+ get more addictive, this chrome extension lets you access your notifications and make a new post anywhere on internet.  So, this extension lets you check, read, comment and share without actually visiting any Google website.

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     SocialStatistics

     Just like twitter counter.com, socialstatistics tracks all the Google+ users and analyses all the present users. The site claims Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed person on Google+ i.e. he's  most of the user Circles. Go check it out, it’s a fun website and would let you follow so awesome people on Google+ which you are missing.

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    Thursday 6 October 2011

    13 Best Blogging Tools

     

     Haloscan

    Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments. Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not. Major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.

     Imageshack

    Imageshack provides an excellent interface to take care of your free image hosting needs. Maybe it is this the fastest way to host an image on the web. Allows lots of image format, hot linking, trans loading from other sites. Its a good idea to register to keep track of all your images in one place.

     Feedburner

    It can give you a cool feed count chick let button to show how many readers are using your feed to read your blog. It also gives you a headline animator which you can attach to your blog to display the recent 5 posts in a nice animated fashion. It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you.

     Sitemeter

    I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Just takes 2 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you real time site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data.

     Technorati

    It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere and allows you to put an excellent Technorati search on your blog. Create and add a Technorati profile. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, Technorati knows and a search for your blog on Technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description.

    StatCounter

    It gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private.

     Feedblitz

    Feedblitz quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. It keeps your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters.

     w.bloggar

    It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems.

    Pingoat

    Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click ‘Submit Pings’ and in one click it pings all of them.

     Blogger Mobile

    It opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they’re automatically posted to your new blog page.

     Blogexplosion

    It helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, for every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you and you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours.  This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service.

    Google Adsense and Search

    When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.

    Creative Commons

    It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the all rights reserved of traditional copyright to create a voluntary some rights reserved copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content.