Place this snipit of code in your theme’s functions.php file:

remove_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘feed_links_extra’, 3 );

or if you don’t yet have anything in your functions.php file, you might have to put the PHP info in there, like so:

<?php remove_action( 'wp_head', 'feed_links_extra', 3 ); ?>

That should effectively remove the extra RSS feeds displayed on your blog posts.

Hope this helps you out with un-cluttering some of the crap the WordPress or WordPress themes like to put in your header information.

There are many services out there that offer widgets you can embed into your own web site layouts.  How do you know which ones are the best?  Well, I am not an expert. Since this is the Internet though, I can pretend.

Here are my top 10 favorite widget related web sites.

Widgetbox – Tons of free widgets to put on your site.

LinkWithin – Post related stories and thumbnails on your web site.

ShoutMix – Free shoutbox/tagboard chat widget.

Wowzio – A lot of random widgets to choose from here.

SpringWidgets – Web site tools for blogs and social networks.

YourMinis – Widgets for your blog, website, start page, and desktop!

Monitter – Real time live Twitter watch and badge creator.

Widgipedia – Your ultimate web site widget resource.

Widgiland – A social network based around awesome widget production.

FeedWind – The free online feed widget.

Know of another great place to grab online widgets or tools for your web site?  Drop in a comment and let us know.  I’m looking for the best of the best in online tools, embeddable items or fun sidebar distractions.

RSS feeds are extremely handy when it comes to keeping up with the latest and greatest updates from a web site. However, even today, there are still some web sites that are feed-less.  To help you track those web sites out there, we have RSSA, Really Simply Syndicate Anything.

All you do is enter the web site URL into the text box, and hit submit.  You will then be given several options on which content you would like to grab. This web site also comes in handy if you don’t know how to create a feed – but you think you need one for your visitors. 

Check out the many more reasons on why you should create  a feed, and then get started with this online tool today.

Have multiple RSS feed sources that you would like to merge into one?  There are a number of different services that can get this done for you, however FeedStitch is a new one that has caught my eye recently. 

What is new here?  Well they cover the basics, for sure.  With HTML, RSS, and JSON they make it easy to republish the data however you want.  To get started, all you have to do is select your feed type, and click “Add Feed”.  You can also store your feeds in manually created groups too.  The feed types they support right now are:

• RSS Feeds
• Twitter Accounts
• Flickr Photos
• Delicious LInks
• Twitter Search
• Tumbler Micro Blogging
• and GitHub

To use the service, all you need to do is login with a pre-existing Google, Facebook, or some other open identification service, and get to adding your feeds.  It is really easy to use, and might be my new favorite service for merging multiple feeds into one.  You can try it out for yourself at FeedStitch.com.

FeedMingle is an interesting tool that will combine multiple feeds into one to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON, or widget.  This can come in handy when you need to track multiple feeds, however you would like to have them all in one general location. 

The tool itself is easy enough to use.  No need to login for now.  All you do is plug your feeds into the web site, and you are done.  For example, I merged together the feeds for the Web Hosting Show, Firefox Facts and Mitchelaneous into one super Mitch-loving feed here:

• http://feedmingle.com/rss/958

The widget that the script produces (which could be copied and pasted onto your own site or profile) is a little on the simple side – but there is still plenty of room for improvement. 

Overall, FeedMingle is worth giving a shot if you need to merge multiple feeds into one huge feed.  It is there to make life simpler for web designers, developers, feed readers, bloggers or anybody else who may need a new way to deliver their content.  I am very excited to see what they do with this service down the road.

• Feedity – Very simple to use, and no fuss web page to RSS conversions.
• Feed43 – For tweakers, this is the tool for you.  Check out the tutorial to see all the customizations you can do.
• Dapper – Easy to use tool for visually creating your own RSS feed from any site out there.
• FeedMarklet – A no-fuss interface.  It won’t scrape content but makes it easy to add your own.
• FeedYes – Automatically generated feeds for any page on the Web.
• Page2RSS – It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds.
• Ponyfish – Simple web-based tool that allows you to create your own RSS feeds from almost any web page.
• FeedBeater – Just plug the web site URL in, and let the web site take care of the rest of the conversion.
• FeedFire – This site will take virtually any web page and convert it into a fully formed and fully coded RSS feed.

Out of them all, I think FeedMarklet and Feedity probably have the easiest interface to get started with, and Feed43 has the most options to customize and tweak till you get things just the way you want them.  I would suggest giving them all a shot though, and see which one does to the best job for you, depending on the page you are trying to pull RSS information from.

Feed Rinse – The job of Feed Rinse is to filter out syndicated content that you just are not that interested in checking out.  They call it a spam filter for your RSS feed subscriptions.  To use it, all you do is import your feeds, setup your filters and then enjoy your new “cleaner” results.  Also, if you have checked them out before and didn’t want to pay for the service, you no longer have to.  The premium service is now free.

Feedscrub – How does Feedscrub clean help you trim your subscription list down?  Also working on a filter-based system, Feedscrub listens to you when you tell them what posts you do and don’t like, and then learns from your input what to do and how to filter.  This allows you to get right to the good stuff you want to read about.

Of course, if you are looking for a few RSS feeds, I am sure you would be happy with these to start off with or to add to your collection:

• http://feedproxy.google.com/mitchelaneous
• http://feedproxy.google.com/webhostingshow
• http://feedproxy.google.com/firefoxfacts

Both Feedscrub and Feed Rinse offer great ways to filter through the noise when it comes to the feeds you are subscribed to.  I would suggest trying both out and see which one works best for you.

For all of you I have two very special presents – a couple of my other side projects you may or may not know that much about.  I wanted to take a minute or two of your time so that you could check them out, and if you like them as much as you like Mitchelaneous – feel free to subscribe there too.  Merry Christmas!

The Web Hosting Show

The Web Hosting Show is my weekly podcast on and about the wacky world of web hosting.  From news, to help and even some shopping tips – I like to help people get the most out of their hosting accounts – while having a little fun along the way.

My Favorite Web Hosting Show Posts of the Year:

• 5 Best Ways to Search Rapidshare, Megaupload and More! (plus 4 More Ways)
• Free eBook – Best of the Web Hosting Show Guides
• How to Trace Route (on Windows and Mac) (and the Video Walkthrough)
• Podcast Archives – 175+ Web Hosting Podcasts to Learn From!
• Talking Data Protection with R1Soft – Episode 139

You can subscribe to WebHostingShow.com for free by plugging the RSS feed into your favorite news reader of choice.  Here are a few subscription buttons to help you in that process:

Firefox Facts

Firefox Facts is my daily blog about all things relating to Firefox.  It started out as an e-book project, but has expanded by leaps and bounds since then.  Find reviews for useful extensions, great looking Firefox themes and a whole lot more.  I even toss in an occasional roundup of the best tools for this, that and the other.  If you use Firefox, you need to subscribe.

My Favorite Firefox Facts Posts of the Year:

• Darkest Popular Themes for Firefox 3 (also have the lightest)
• Freshest Top 10 YouTube Greasemonkey Scripts
• Change the Default Search in Firefox
• 25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Statusbar (also 25 more tweaks too)
• Give Firefox 3 Firefox 2′s Address Bar

You can subscribe to FirefoxFacts.com for free by plugging the RSS feed into your favorite news reader of choice.  Here are a few subscription buttons to help you in that process:

Thanks to all my visitors and free RSS feed subscribers for keeping this rambling side project of mine fun to do.  This November was the 5 year anniversary of Mitchelaneous.com, and hopefully we will have many more years to come.

• PopURLs – Uniquely different than the rest, but still have a lot of information to share.
  
• My Live – The standard lots of boxes, fill me up type of start page.
  
• Protopage – One of the better of the customizable start pages, tons of options and tools.
  
• Pageflakes – Another top choice of mine.  Really like the look and feel of Pageflakes.
  
• Netvibes – Best of the lesser known selections.  Latest update was kinda disappointing however.
  
• Suprglu – Brings your favorite social tools together to create a better start page.
  
• 24eyes – At least they didn’t call it 99 bottles of beer on the wall?
  
• iGoogle – Google’s recently updated way to start your day.  Quickly becoming a fan favorite.
  
• favoor – Notes, news links and more on this lesser known start page.
  
• StartAid -StartAid is perfect for saving all your bookmarks online.
• eskobo – Funny enough, has nothing to do with Eskimos.  Who knew?
  
• smplr – One text box to rule them all!  It doesn’t get any more simplier. (or is that smplr?)
  
• feedly – Start page + Firefox = Starting Goodness?
  
• Widexplorer – Because nobody wanted to use the narrow explorer.
  
• Gizi – A clone of the more traditional tons of boxes start page.
  
• LinkedFeed – The more you use it, the better it serves you!
  
• Fav 2.0 – A thumbnail gallery of your favorite web sites.
  
• Widgetop – A fun and colorful desktop-like start page. 
  
• BBC Beta – Even the BBC is letting you customize their front page.
  
• Webwag – Looks like Netvibes’ ugly and less talented step sister.
  
• My AOL – Get your day going with a fresh cup of AOL!
  
• Sputtr – At least it wasn’t called stu.. stu… studder.
  
• Symbaloo – Wins my most unique award.  Tons of squares to fill in with your favorites.
  
• My Yahoo! – Get your news, weather, RSS feeds and more all with a Yahoo!-like twist.
  

Is it time to change the start page you have been using?  There are many of them out there to choose from.  Secret is, is to find the one that provides the most stuff you need in the best presentation possible.

FeedMyInbox is a new service that recently caught my eye, due to the fact they make things very simple.  They are offering you blogs, feeds and news delivered magically to your e-mail inbox.  All you have to do is visit the web site and enter a web site RSS feed and your e-mail address. 

Here is how FeedMyInbox explain the process:

Once you find a feed you would like to subscribe to, simply type in the web address (URL) for the site on FeedMyInbox.com. We will find the feed(s) available on the page, and you can select what you want to subscribe to. Once you subscribe to a feed, we will send an email to the address you specified. Simply click the link that is enclosed to confirm that your email address is correct, and you are all set!

It is an interesting service, to say the least. 

Of course, if you want to get my feed in your inbox, that is easy enough to do without this service.  Just click this link to subscribe to e-mail updates, so you never miss a post.