Software by tag 'news'

Laptopical – A laptop review website which provide useful information

Posted by Dickey on Sep 17th, 08 | Filed under Accessories, Internet, Tech News | 3 Comments

If you are going to buy a laptop, i am sure you will do a lot of survey to gather more information. You may want to know the laptop’s spec, the pros and cons of the model, and probably some screenshot of the laptop in different views. So, you may need to go through a lot of websites and put a lot of time to gather the information.

So, why not give Laptopical a try. They list down the specification, pros and cons and a full and detail review of laptops. You can even found similar laptops and view the photo of the laptop at different views.

The above screenshot is the main page of Laptopical, which clearly shows the laptop news and latest reviews, while you can find more information through the sidebar. The Interesting Laptop News section covers all latest information about laptop and computer accessories.

How you define a computer/laptop speed? How fast is fast? It is actually according to how you are going to use the laptop. You may interest to read more on how to choose the best laptop in their The Best New Laptops section.

You may also read the reviews by each brand. For example, you may go through the Samsung reviews by entering the Samsung Laptops category.

If you want to get the latest news from them, you may consider to subscribe to their RSS feed or follow their Twitter.

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Page2RSS – Create feed for any website

Posted by Dickey on May 23rd, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment

Page2RSS is a cool service which can let us to create RSS feed for any website, which do not publish feeds. It will automatically monitor and check any websites for upgrades and deliver them to your RSS aggregator.

I had cover a Firefox extension that can monitor any websites upgrade, and will inform you to read the new content. Now, Page2RSS is a more powerful service which can create feeds for websites that do not publish feeds.

Just type-in the URL that you interest and hit “to RSS”, Page2RSS will then convert the content of that URL to RSS feed and you can subscribe it useing any RSS reader. There are some similar services such as dapper, and Ponyfish, but Page2RSS is the most simplest service among them.

You can click on the www.google.com link to see the Google feed created by Page2RSS. Page2RSS provide a javascript bookmarklet button for users to easily convert any web content into feed.

Note: Not all page can be converted into RSS feed. You can use the bookmarklet button to quickly know whether the page can be converted to RSS feed or not.

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ReadBag – Save and read your stories later

Posted by Dickey on May 22nd, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Firefox, Internet, Web 2.0 | No Comments

ReadBag is a useful service which similar with Firefox’s Read It later plugin. You can save any stories and read them when you are free.

ReadBag runs on the new Google apps engine, so you just need an Google account in order to use this service. It provides user a javascript bookmarklet button so that users can add new stories quickly and easily.

To save a story, simply provide the title and URL. You can turn on the “auto archive” function, so that all stories read will automatic go to the archive folder.

There are some other features such as mobile access and API. Furthermore, Firefox users can direct posting or access ReadBag through extension, while Google Reader’s users can add stories in ReadBag by using greasemonkey script.

Another similar service is Instapaper, which is much straight forward than ReadBag. If you need extra features, i would recommend ReadBag, else go for Instapaper.

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Shyftr – Share your feeds together

Posted by Dickey on Mar 15th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Internet, Web 2.0 | No Comments

Shyftr is an online RSS reader which let users to share their news/feeds with others.

Shyftr users can now add any feeds to their profile, and then make friends with other Shyftr users so that they can share their feeds. Furthermore, users can learn about new sites through the Shyftr community also.

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Once you create your free account, you will get a list of suggest feeds for different categories such as News, Technology and Science, Gossip, Entertaintment, Sports, and much more. You can skip this page and continue to create your profile.

Shyftr has very clean and easy to use interface. The left hand side will list out all feeds and blogs while the right hand side is the news/articles of that particular feeds. Although there are a lot of online RSS reader, but what make Shyftr different with others is Ahyftr added the community feature, which let user to share and interact each other.

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