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FeedDemon – Worth Buying ?

June 16, 2007 Tools

As mentioned in the About Me page, till now I have paid for 2 software which I thought were really worth the price.
One was for the Flickr Pro account using which I could archive and share “GB’s” of photos. Its probably the best photo sharing/management application that I have come across.
The other application that [...]

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Website Load Time Tester

June 11, 2007 Browsers

Pingdom is a service which provides tools to monitor web sites, E-Mail Servers, FTP servers and a multitude of other services.
Though I didn’t find the service that useful, they do seem to have introduced a nice little tool (free) to check the page loading speed.
http://www.pingdom.com/tools/fpt/?url=www.venukb.com/blog
(Replace the “url” parameter with the URL of your [...]

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Feedburner FeedCount

June 2, 2007 Google

The RSS subscribes for this site is tracked using the Feedburner service. From the past week I have been observing an change in the way the feed count is reported/calculated. I am not sure if I am the only one seeing this change.
The site had an average reader count of around 130 feed subscribers. On [...]

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Blog Layout Tweaks

May 4, 2007 Personal Blogs

The blog now has a new look and feel ! There is no major change and only the header layout is re-designed.
I always wanted to move the “Page” links on the sidebar and now it has a new place at the bottom of the header.
However I almost spent hours together for the right color [...]

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RSS Bandit – Alternative to FeedDemon

April 17, 2007 Google

FeedDemon, the popular RSS feed reader for windows is/was one of my favorite application. It has a clean user friendly interface and reading/managing the feeds is a treat with this application. Its also one of the few desktop based readers which can synchronize with an online service -Newsgator. However FeedDemon comes at a price (30$) [...]

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Del.icio.us Links and Full Feeds

December 19, 2006 Personal Blogs

I find a lot of nice articles and its difficult to blog/comment about every other article. Sharing these links directly makes more sense and the best way to do is to deliver it as part of your RSS feed.
Feedburner is a widely used feed publishing service and even the feeds of Online Diary are delivered [...]

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Google Reader in GMail (Another Greasemonkey script)

November 6, 2006 Google

Google Reader, the online RSS reader from Google had a major upgrade some time back. Check this post to know more about Google Reader.
Mihai Parparita, one of the lead developer of Google Reader has written a Greasemonkey Script to add Reader into GMail. The script added a “Feeds” link within GMail as shown below:
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RSS Feeds – Update

October 27, 2006 Personal Blogs

As I mentioned in one of my earlier post, there was an update in the RSS feed URL of this blog.
Old Feed URL
http://feeds.feedburner.com/venukb/zrq
New Feed URL
http://feeds.feedburner.com/OnlineDiary
However my feedburner stats suggest that many are still using the old feed URL. Request those readers to please shift to the New Feed URL.

As you can see from the [...]

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Ping Google

October 6, 2006 Google

When it comes to searching content in Blogs, the default search engine many people prefer is Technorati.
The Technorati engine is totally dedicated for searching within blogs. Bloggers/Publishers can ping the Technorati service to notify Technorati of new content in your blog.
In many of the publishing software including Wordpress, this can be be [...]

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Google Reader – Just got better

September 29, 2006 Google

Google Reader till now was one of the most “unusable” applications from Google’s stable. Google which re-defined usability with applications like GMail did not extend the same usability aspects to Google Reader.
Now after hearing to the constant complaints/suggestions from the users, GReader has introduces a total new look and feel, and to be honest I [...]

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