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How to Read Feeds in FeedDemon When Newsgator Online Is Offline

May 14, 2008 at 11:22 am | Software, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials · Comments

newsgator-sync Newsgator Online service suffered some outage this morning as it failed to retrieve new content from RSS feeds for several hours.

The issue is now resolved but during the downtime, none of their desktop RSS readers worked because they both download new content via Newsgator Online and do not fetch feeds directly from the source website(s).

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Create Interactive e-Learning Courses with Microsoft LCDS

May 14, 2008 at 10:24 am | Downloads, Software · Comments

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For educators: LCDS Author (Learning Content Development System) is a free software from Microsoft that lets you create and publish e-learning courses.

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Newsgator Is Down; RSS Feeds Are Not Getting Updated Anymore

May 14, 2008 at 4:36 am | Blogging, Internet · Comments (3)

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If you are using any of Newsgator RSS products like FeedDemon, NetNewsWire or Newsgator Online, you may not have seen new items in your RSS feeds since the past few hours.

The world hasn’t stopped blogging, it’s just that the Newsgator platform is currently down for everyone. This is another big reason why I feel that FeedDemon should be integrated with Google Reader or Bloglines.

Also see: Why FeedDemon is Better Than Google Reader

Turn Your Website Into an AdSense Parked Domain For a Minute

May 14, 2008 at 3:44 am | Internet, Tools · Comments

adsense parked domains

*This is how microsoft.com would look had it been an AdSense Parked Domain.

You need to own hundreds of web domain names before Google accepts you in their AdSense for domains program but using the form below, you can immediately know how a website would look had it been an AdSense Parked domain - just enter the URL of some website and hit Submit.

Enter web domain here:

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Use Yahoo! Glue Search Outside India With Yahoo! Alpha

May 13, 2008 at 10:57 am | Internet, Search · Comments (2)

Yahoo! India recently added an intelligent "glue" feature to their search pages. The idea is that you can find relevant web pages, images, videos, blogs and even music tracks related to your search terms on a single page.

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Synchronize Your PowerPoint Presentations With Video Recordings

May 13, 2008 at 10:19 am | Internet, Tools · Comments (2)

powerpoint video recording Consider this: You are an expert in new technologies and have been invited to deliver a presentation at a conference (say, BarCamp).

You prepare the slides using PowerPoint and then upload them on to SlideShare so that audience has immediate access to the material. The organizers have also put a video camera in the conference room to live-record your presentation which they later upload to YouTube.

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Buying Web Domain Names - Some Tips and General Precautions

May 13, 2008 at 5:18 am | Internet, Web Design · Comments (23)

buy-domain-name Last week, I acquired an existing web domain digitalinspiration.com from a domain reseller since the URL matches just perfectly with my blog title - Digital Inspiration.

The web domain broker company initially quoted $1,600 for this domain but after some quick negotiations, we closed the deal at around $1,100.

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How to Check If Your Website Is Blocked In China or Not

May 12, 2008 at 11:19 am | Blogging, Internet · Comments (6)

"How do I find out if web users in China can access my website at xyz.com?"

Following this story on China blocking Blogger blogs ahead of Olympic games, Todd is looking to conduct similar test for his own website to confirm that his site is not blocked by the Chinese government.

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