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I have been a great fan of Newsgator products, particularly the desktop based feed reader FeedDemon ! I have been recommending the same to many of my friends.

After trying out lot of RSS readers including RSS Bandit and Google Reader, I finally found that none of them could match FeedDemon's simple yet powerful user interface and I totally loved the synchronization feature built into the application.

Along with Flickr, FeedDemon became one of the apps that I paid for !

Now Newsgator has turned most of its RSS products including FeedDemon into FREE applications.

So go ahead and grab your free copy of Feeddemon !

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I'm sure Vasu would have something to say on this :D What other punch line can you think of for the above photo ?

I have been planning to buy a USB flash drive from quite some time now. My current 256MB flash drive is of no use in the sense that it runs out of space too quickly. My 30GB iPod could have served as an alternative; however its little bulky to carry around and the "proprietary" cable that has to be tagged along with the device makes it much more difficult. Transcend and Sandisk are the 2 major vendors of USB Flash drives. I had a look at the products offered by both vendors and was more impressed with the Sandisk range. Sandisk flash drives looked much better; cute and compact. However compared to Transcend they are priced on the higher side. The other reason for choosing Sandisk was because of the 2 Year International warranty. Transcend provides lifetime warranty only at the place/country where it is bought (The one I got was bought in Taiwan :D ) After going over the entire product portfolio, I finally settled on a 4GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro. Let's go over the specification first :)

Microsoft's Windows Live Writer is a powerful desktop based weblog client and is currently the only product I like from Microsoft's stable. The initial beta had lot of interesting features which made it a must have for any blogger.

Review of Windows Live Writer Beta 1

There are lot of free and licensed desktop weblog clients including Qumana but not a single client is as powerful and feature rich as Live writer. Beta 2 version of Live writer is now available and there are lots of new features added into the new version.

Feature Highlights:

Inline Spell Checking - From now on you no longer need to manually run the spell checker. Inserting/Editing Tables - You can insert and edit tables. Nice add-on Support for excerpts - "Split Post" option now allows you to insert the "more" tag in the posts. Previously this could be done only via the HTML Code view Better integration of local and online edited posts. New look and feel

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"Doodles of a Crazy Man" is the title of the blog maintained by my highly talented friend Vasuki.

Wondering why I am writing about this blog? Not because he is my friend or that his link is on my Blogroll; its out of total appreciation to the blog's content and his writing talent.

Of all the different blogs/RSS feeds that I read daily, this blog stands out primarily because of quality content.  

Vasu has a unique style of story telling/putting his view and if you read a couple of posts in his blog you will definitely be tempted to dig through the blogs archives.

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