Software by tag 'rss'

Notify.me – Stay updated on the information that you like

Posted by Lim on Dec 15th, 08 | Filed under Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | No Comments

Do use subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds? Do you like to follow latest information about certain topic? If yes, then you probably like Notify.me.

Notify.me is a service which can deliver up to date information for you through different methods. It let you directly specify which sites that you want to monitor, and notify you whenever the sites update. Although you may use rss to follow the news, but Notify.me will notify you instantly when there are updates on the sites.

These are the features of Notify.me:

  • notify.me lets you get realtime notifications of information you care about.
  • track items on craigslist, job postings, breaking news stories and much more.
  • choose to have notifications delivered to Instant Messenger, SMS, Email, or Desktop Application.
  • easily and quickly manage your notifications through the web interface.

Notify.me

Embed others’ feed to your blog easily with Feed Source

Posted by Lim on Jul 8th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

If you have more that one website, wondering how to put each other feeds on them? Feed Source is a service which easily integrate others’ feed on your blog.

There are a lot of methods to put other feeds to your website. For example, you can use Google’s API to do so. But, most of the methods require some basic PHP/Javascript coding, which is not suitable for non-programmers.

But, non-programmers can use Feed Source, which is a free service to integrate feeds on your blog.

Simply provide your feed URL and then customize the color and text. Press the Update Example button to view the example output. After you done, copy the code and then paste it to your blog.

Feed Source

3 Services which deliver RSS to your mailbox

Posted by Lim on Jun 28th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | No Comments

There are a lot of websites which contains handy tools for users to manage RSS subscribtion. Today i would like to introduce some web services which will deliver RSS straight to your mailbox.

I had cover a lot of RSS articles before, which mainly focus on how to filter RSS or create feed for websites which don’t provide RSS service. Although FeedBurner let users to subscribe through email, but there are some alternatives beside FeedBurner.

Send Me RSS

Sendmerss.com is a service which help users organize and send their favorite contents straight to the mailbox. To subscribe through email, simply provide the RSS URL and your email address. They even provide a widget for bloggers to embedded into their blogs. The widget’s design is very attractive, and it just needs a single step to subscribe through the widget.

RSS FWD

To subscribe through RSS FWD, simply provide the RSS URL and choose your delivery preferences. After that, you can preview the looks of the RSS mail before you confirm to subscribe.

RSS2Email

RSS2Email is a Russian service, and i can’t read the words. But, it is very simple to subscribe through RSS2Email. Simple provide the RSS URL at the first textbox and your email at the second textbox and hit the button.

Send Me RSS | RSS FWD | RSS2Email

FilterMyRSS – Create filter for any RSS feeds before subscribe them

Posted by Lim on Jun 8th, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

FilterMyRSS is a web2.0 service which can filter any RSS feeds with keywords. You will get a new URL to the new feed created.

Sometimes, we subscribe to a blog, but we only interest in certain types of articles. For example, maybe you just interested in the “internet” topic. Unfortunately, most of the blog systems don’t provide such feature for users to filter the feed before subscribe.

Luckily, FilterMyRSS solve this problem. simply provide the feed URL, provide them your keywords and you will get a new feed URL.

The screenshot above showed that i filtered my own feed with keyword “internet”. The new feed URL is shown above the textbox. Just use the new URL when you subscribe to the feed.

FilterMyRSS

Page2RSS – Create feed for any website

Posted by Lim 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.

Page2RSS

ReadAir – Google Reader at your desktop

Posted by Lim on May 14th, 08 | Filed under Application, Cool Stuff, Internet, Web 2.0 | 3 Comments

ReadAir is a desktop application which let Google Reader users read their feed on desktop. It is built with Adobe AIR, which means it is compatible with Windows, Linux, or Mac machine.

Google Reader is one of the best feed reader, but one thing is that you can’t bring it to your desktop. Thanks to the ReadAir team, they had successfully bring Google Reader to the desktop.

These are the features of ReadAir:

  • Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
  • Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
  • Add/Remove/Manage tags
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
  • Search your feeds
  • User preferences
  • Resizable viewing pane
  • Auto software update
  • Auto login

Currently, ReadAir has Mac interface, but they will implement Windows XP/Vista themes in the future release.

Note: You need to install Adobe AIR before use this application.

download ReadAir

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Grab free RSS icon set from Smashing Magazine!

Posted by Lim on Apr 7th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Design, Downloads | 9 Comments

Dirceu Veiga had released a free RSS icon set which contains 8 icons in different format for Smashing Magazine readers.

These icons are free to use for both private and commercial use and are available is various resolutions: 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px.

You can download the icon set in different format: PNG, Windows icons, and Mac icons.

So, which RSS icon you prefer? I prefer the first one, which is a man reading the newspaper. Hurry up, change your RSS icon to attract people to subscribe your RSS feed!

Source: Smashing Magazine

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Shyftr – Share your feeds together

Posted by Lim 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.

Shyftr

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.

Shyftr

InstaPaper – Bookmark unread stories for later

Posted by Lim on Feb 7th, 08 | Filed under Internet, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments

InstaPaper is a service where you can cerate a list of stories which you will read it later. Use the bookmarklet button to send any articles to your account and read them later.

InstaPaper

Still remember my article about how to forward good website to your email account? Basically, both of them let you save article for later read. Let say you go to library and found some interesting articles, or you found some long articles but currently you are not free to go through them, you probably will bookmark them and read later right? But, when you free, do you really read them? I am sure most of you may not read them, or you probably forgot which articles that you bookmarked just now.

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Pingie – Get RSS delivered as SMS to your phone

Posted by Lim on Jan 16th, 08 | Filed under Blogging, Tech News | 1 Comment

Pingie is a service which is kind of RSS to SMS notification utility. It will send an SMS to you whenever a new post appear in your “watch” feed.

Google Reader, Feedreader, RSS Reader, and Newsgator are examples of great Reader, but if you want the RSS content deliver to your mobile, you need Pingie.

Pingie

Pingie is an absolutely free service. You provide your email, phone number, and RSS Feed URL to them, and they will notify you whenever the RSS Feed get updated. You can follow certain category’s or certain author’s update by provide the correct Feed URL.

For example, if you want to follow my Tech News, you can enter http://www.techsnack.net/category/tech-news/rss.

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