The new RSS Mixer is a simple and easy way to aggregate or mix RSS news or blog feeds in a single location. Moreover, the mixer can get the new feed and create it as an HTML page, Web or Apple Widget, or as iPhone formated Web page.
When you look closely at the RSS Mixer, you will see that it is just an RSS feed aggregator. RSS Mixer provides users with a URL linking you to your master feed and a downloadable widget options and formats. But instead of merely collecting feeds, it mixes them making you look more like a deejay mixing your own songs on a play list. RSS Mixer has a pretty easy user interface with a design that is sleek and hip.
The web widget is an added bonus. The widget gets you to share what you read in your blogs via RSS with your site visitors. Visitors of your blogs can copy your RSS feeds and use them for preference for future read. The web widget uses iFrame HTML and has most of the CSS codes are there which you could tweak if you like, since there's no other options provided when you upload the widget.
They say sexual predators are always there to stalk and prey on your kids. Well whoever said so is correct, and the number keeps growing and growing. Kids (below 18) on the other hand aren't so aware and don't really mind. ...more
Rize-it.com is one of the latest interactive news website that offers users an opportunity to monitor and gather the news as it comes. But differences from other news network site can be immediately observed. The appearance and interface of the web application screams of Web 2.0 influences. Although, the homepage design could use some improvement. At this time and age, why create such a lame homepage?
Through Rize-it, users of can personalize channels, join debates, and publish comments and opinions in real-time. The founders of the site, Carl Guillemette and Jason Simard, aimed the site to be a powerful tool where people can say what's in their mind. It also features cell phone and email alert functionality, which makes is possible to inform users automatically on daily updates.
News posted on the website comes from a variety of external sources. The site claims to have no relationship from these sources aside from being distributor of news. The news are gathered with complex algorithms devoid of any political or ideological biased. However, despite these claims, one can't help but notice that the news articles are nothing special and at times provide the usual bunch of information. In other words, the news reports does not offer anything new than what the bigger sites are offering.
The site is still in beta. There are four available channels, Celebrity, Football, Hip-Hop, and War channels. I don't know how Guillemette and Simard end up choosing the four channels but so far the most interesting channel would be the Celebrity and War news channels. More channels are expected to be “unlocked” probably in the next few weeks or months. ...more
Back in college I had a really math intensive program taking 18 units of calculus and 25 units of computational physics. All courses those courses required solving differential equatios as well as programming them into computer software. Honestly I can't remember how I got through those courses because now I've already forgotten solving 2-variable differential equations.
Calc5 has refreshed my memory or has given me a solid excuse to say that I can still solve differential equations. Calc5 is a web based calculator capable of solving differential equations as well as graphing in 2d and 3d. Well, it's not as powerful as MathCAD or Statistica but it sure is an easily-available-web-based-differential-equation-problem solver.
Now, I'm not so sure how it's going to help me on the web but I guess for math and physics junkies, it beats solving stuff on paper. The interface is simple, equations are entered via the keyboard so grouping of arguments are vital.
All in all, Calc5 is a web2.0 application in themath niche and it may be sueful to rusty farts like me but not really to the serious mathematician who could still opt for the Texas Instruments graphing calculator or MathCAD. ...more
PodNova aims to keep track of podcasts or videoblogs the easy way. No more complicated searching. With PodNova subscribing, listening, viewing, reading and maintaining feeds are done all online for easy access. Site developers have been at it for the past three years, looking at every aspect to bring the most out of the site's functionality to web users.
In the early days of PodNova, the site was designed to manage online subscriptions, offer one-click subscribing to podcasts, provide an easy way to search and browse podcasts, create a community of listeners, and provide a true ranking system for the site.
Now more than two years later, the site is showcasing a number of improvements specifically made to be consistent to the new Web 2.0 ways of the Web. PodNova claims to provide better search results, new lay-out and design, an improved help section, custom audio player, use of more ajax technology, and offer support for videobogs. These are aside from the new innovation and functionality that developers fused into the new PodNova. Generated personal recommendations, featured podcasts, existing friends'-system concept, possibility of sharing subscriptions and episodes, as well as manual force feed refresh are some of the thing the new PodNova is packing. Everything have been redesigned to make life much easier for the users, not that the old design was bad but developers made things more modern, more up to date.
However, all these improvements does not overshadow the fact that a website/company called iTunes exists which pretty much do the same things as PodNova but is bigger, badder. ...more
Microsoft will soon be releasing its product called Surface. It's a computer designed to be an interactive table. Yes, a table, not a tablet or a compact device for the pocket. Of course it will feature the latest technologies in touch screens, web compatiblity and multimedia.
The price tag is estimated to be a whopping $10,000 and it's not actually marketted to indiviual consumers but to mostly businesses like hotels, restauruants and big , rich corporations.
So is this what the public needs? In their commercials, it's also emphasized that it's probably useful to families in their living rooms as an entertainment device. Is it really worth it?
Well, we still don't know if Microsoft Surface's flashy new technology will be as successful as the iPhone but there may be a chance though with a price tag like that, it might be better to get 20 iPhones instead. ...more
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