I just got an email from long time reader Ben who told me that my feed would not update automatically anymore. After checking the feed it turned out that he was right. The Feedburner feed stopped on February 10 and did not update afterwards while the normal feed displays the latest articles just fine. I [...]

Categories: ghacks

Google Chrome, unlike Mozilla Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer does not offer a quick way to subscribe to RSS feeds with a shortcut. Both Opera and Firefox display an RSS feed icon in the address bar while Internet Explorer displays an icon in a toolbar instead. A click leads to the subscription options for the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

After what felt like months of beta updates FeedDemon 3 has been released by its developers. The popular RSS feed aggregator brings several new and exciting features to the table that might justify the title of best desktop RSS feed reader for the Windows operating system. FeedDemon has changed a core aspect of the feed [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Rollgator offers an interesting service that could be very appealing to businesses and organizations. The online service creates full screen RSS feed tickers of up to four RSS feeds. These full screen ticker has been optimized for large displays that include computer monitors, flat screen televisions and even walls or projectors. Rollgator could be an [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Most users who subscribe to RSS feeds read these feeds in feed readers that can either be accessed from the desktop or on a website. Popular options are for instance the Feed Demon software program or Google Reader on the web. There are some other options for users who do not want to open a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I received an email from Matthew a few hours ago who asked if there was a possibility to exclude certain categories from my website from appearing in the RSS feed. I was really busy with a website that I purchased earlier this morning and could not answer immediately. The good news is that it is [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

FeedStitch is a news aggregator that can combine multiple RSS news feeds and other data sources into one RSS feed or Json format. It is by far not as complex as Yahoo Pipes but provides a comfortable and fast way of combining multiple news sources into one. FeedStitch offers multiple third-party ways of logging into [...]

Categories: Online Services

You might remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which basically displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way. What I wanted to do now is to display the five newest items of the RSS feed in the sidebar of this blog to both promote the appnews service but also provide a [...]

Categories: Web Development

How are most Internet users discovering new interesting blogs? The most popular methods are probably by following links on blogs they already read and by recommendations posted in their feed reader. Yes, there are blog directories like Technorati but most of them concentrate on the top blogs and not on the small but as good [...]

Categories: Search Engines, The Web