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NewsBlur is a fantastic new RSS feed reader that I feel will give any other feed reader out there on the market a run for it’s money. It brings the ease of entry you get with Google Reader, but also has a few of it’s own unique features that make it stand out from the rest of the RSS feed reader crowd.
Scott’s Gmail Alert might be one of the nicest little Gmail monitor programs you can find on Windows. With it, you can always stay on top of your most recent Gmail emails that have come in, and get access to tons of other great features.
The main job of this excellent little program is to monitor any number of Gmail inboxes and labels. You can customize each account with individual colors and sounds too. You can also instantly rely to emails, without even having to open your web browser. It is also fully compatible with Google Apps and the standard free Gmail e-mail accounts too.
The features do not stop there. You can also use it to monitor multiple Google Talk accounts, receive desktop alerts for calendar events, get the latest Google news feeds or stay up to date with the current weather conditions. Any RSS feed can also be directly plugged into Scott’s Gmail Alert, for easy access to your favorite website stories.
Your registration (which is only $3) will unlock support for monitoring an unlimited number of Gmail accounts, the Calendar functions and RSS feed monitoring.
Go give it a shot – I can promise you that you will not find another Gmail monitoring program that does so much.
Are you looking for the cheapest, most effective way to tell people who you are, what you do, and that they need your product? Then you have stumbled upon the right resource. All throughout the month of October I will be sharing with you my own duct tape marketing help.
Why duct tape marketing? Well, duct tape is often associated with doing things yourself – and I want to help you learn all there is to know about marketing your website, your business or anything else you are putting out there for the masses to enjoy, with the smallest budget possible.
So be sure to check out Mitchelaneous.com every single day this month, as I guide you though the best ways to make yourself more successful, without putting too much of a strain on your wallet.
Feedlooks is a very interest new way to subscribe to your favorite website RSS feeds, and keep track of when they have new posts to check out. Rather than serving as a separate webpage you visit to keep up with RSS subscriptions, Feedlooks comes with you to each website you want to visit.
Well, e3 didn’t bring me a whole lot of excitement this year. One thing though that did get me hyped up was the announcement of the Fat Roles DLC pack for Fat Princess.
Far from being just another off topic service, in a world filled with them, the new Web Hosting Show Coupons and Deals page will deliver, and impress you. This was a quick project I cooked up over the weekend, to better serve the public at large by delivering a better way to keep track of the latest coupons, deals and special offers from the entire web hosting world out there.
One thing I was able to get started on this weekend, and finished up just a few minutes ago was the new layout for MitchKeeler.com. Being the most static of the bunch, MitchKeeler.com doesn’t just serve as my online resume – oh no. It is the place to go if you want to know more about what it is I do, and how to get in touch with me. More updates to come to that web site (as soon as I find that mysterious 25th hour in the day) so stay tuned, and let me know what you think of the new re-design thus far!
A mashup of link sharing plus news aggregation, Virl is a place to shorten your URLs, upload photos, and spread the news.
The first thing you see when you check out the site is this blue monster guy asking you what you would like to do? You can tell it you want to upload a photo or shorten a URL. Pretty simple right?
Well that is only half the web site. The other half gives you the popular posts from a number of different resources, like Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Hulu, Yahoo Buzz and more.
A virtual mix of both link sharing and shortening – this web site has a lot of potential, however my first suggestion would be to shrink down their monster guy on the top of the page. Why? There is no way I would want to scroll that far down every time I check out the page to see some of the popular headlines out there from their various news sources listed on the site. Go see how viral Virl is for you.
Are you one of those people out there that finds themselves addicted to finding really cool RSS feeds that you really don’t have the time to read? I know I am – so when searching for a way to filter through my feeds I am subscribed to to get out the most important stuff out of them I found two great tools to get the job done.
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:
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.
This year, I set a new record for myself – I made it into print four times! Now in this digital era, that might not seem like much. Heck, it might even be a step backwards. However, holding a magazine with an article you have written inside it still something that gets me all excited.
Here are all the issues of Ping! Zine that I have made an appearance in this year:
+ Download Issue 26 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
+ Download Issue 27 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
+ Download Issue 28 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
+ Download Issue 30 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)
Hopefully they’ll have me back next year too. If you have never heard of Ping! Zine before, it is a web hosting magazine for web hosting professionals and fans. One of the two biggest out there in the hosting industry to date.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
