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

After a seemingly endless odyssey of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader tests which led from web browser based readers like those in Mozilla Firefox or Opera to website based RSS readers like Google Reader to desktop RSS readers I finally ended up with FeedDemon. FeedDemon offered a wealth of features but more importantly the speed [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

CopyGator monitors a site’s RSS news feed providing detailed information about other blogs and websites who copy, quote or republish posts from the feed. The service is currently monitoring more than 2.2 million RSS feeds who produce more than 500K blog posts per day. CopyGator will then compare all published posts to determine if two [...]

Categories: The Web

Less than a month ago I switched from Google Reader to Newzie mainly because I wanted to use a system that would work independently from the web browser. Newzie looked really great and fast but it turned out that it had a few quirks that made me look for alternatives. The main problem was that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A little known fact is the possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed of WordPress categories, authors or tags instead of the full site feed. This can be really useful if you love to subscribe to one specific author, category or tag of the blog. One prime example could be to subscribe to a Firefox [...]

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Switching from Google Reader to another RSS reader was no easy task. Google Reader provides a very good feed reading experience that is hard to top. The major problem I was facing with Google Reader was not really related to that RSS reader alone but more to the way the account data was handled by [...]

Categories: Google, Software, Windows

Mobile Phones, smartphones, pocket PCs and oder mobile devices have been around for a while but using them to connect to the Internet is a trend that manifested itself in the last years. Apple’s iPhone is one prominent example of a phone that offers many functions that require an Internet connection. One of the popular [...]

Categories: Mobile Computing, Mobiles

Okay I spend most of the weekend trying to find out why my RSS news feed was not displaying for many of my readers and why I would get all kinds of errors like 404 not found in the beginning and then a dubious homepage when opening the RSS News Feed url in the browser. [...]

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Google changed my RSS News Feed today from Feedburner to a Google domain on my request. I did that mainly because it is then possible to add Adsense ads to the feed which I’m thinking of trying out. Since it is a transfer of the domain it could mean that some of you are experiencing [...]

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