Feedburner Users: 2 days before Google gets your data

If you logged into Feedburner in the last few days, then you would have surely noticed a change in their login screen. It looks like this now:

The fine print at the bottom says that, if you want to stop Google from getting your data then opt-out of the service before June 15th 2007. In essence [...]

Desktop Blogging Editor – Windows Live Writer 2 Released

This is a long pending release from the Windows Live Writer team. The improvements are
- Inline Spell Check
- Use of tables. This is something that I was looking for and I hope that the functionality works without breaking on the web pages. The table menu looks similar to the menu in Microsoft Word. So, it [...]

Clipmarks – Good software to post clips

Have started using this software recently and suddenly in the midst of other things I found the urge to post something to my blog using this tool. Hence the small intro to Clipmarks using the software it provides. Try it. It has a add-on for Firefox and a clip-to-blog utility.

clipped from clipmarks.com

A smart [...]

Yahoo Messenger on the Web

Yahoo is playing catch up again and this time it is with the release of the web messenger. This release comes a few weeks after the Google Talk gadget became popular. This is a pretty nice thing to have considering the bloat of the Yahoo Messenger download. Check out this post at Yodel which talks [...]

RSS in plain English

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The video is pretty well made and is around 3:30mins long. This is for explaining what Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is in plain english.
And this is where the problem lies? If I take 3 and a half minutes to explain what is RSS, then it will remain a niche and never become a [...]

“Comic” Blogging break

Had a good laugh looking at this presentation. Or maybe I should call it a representation of what the Web 2.0 world has done. At times it is good to step aside and have a laugh at what you are doing to yourself and others.My favs. are Slide 22, 24 and 26. Have fun.
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Desktop RSS Reader’s – A comparison

My quest for a good (or almost) RSS reader has nearly ended. I have tried umpteen RSS readers right from Feedreader and Sharpreader to the likes of Omea and Greatnews. (If you aren’t familiar with RSS please read this.) Initially,
I was happy using web based readers, but as soon as the number of feeds to [...]

Desktop Blogging Editor – Windows Live Writer

My search for a decent (and free) desktop blog writer tool has ended. I was basically looking for a tool which would allow me to post from my desktop, was able to allow a reasonable amount of formatting, support image uploading and above all, was free. (I missed the Blogjet download from Giveawayoftheday [...]

WikiSeek – Search Engine for Wikipedia

Wikiseek searches (or at least prioritizes) Wikipedia and the articles which have been linked to in Wikipedia articles for the search queries. At least on first impressions it looks much better than the internal wikipedia search engine.
Because of the fact that it only has the Wikipedia and related sites indexed, the quality of [...]

Widgets – Transforming the web

Now-a-days with the widgetization of the web in full swing the necessity to spend time on a lot of websites has decreased dramatically. The start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes etc, have the necessary widgets to retrieve information from other websites and this reduces the necessity for me to visit that website. As far as I [...]