10 Reasons to Prefer Feedblitz Email over Feedburner Email

Feedburner, being a comprehensive service which includes both Feed Burning and Email Subscription Options along with Tracking and Analysis, is the most preffered service by bloggers. Presently, Feedburner is a Google owned add-free facility with built-in integration with Blogger and other Google products. On the contrary, Feedblitz is a dedicated Email Delivery agent, which is add-supported but free.

Most bloggers fail to realize the advantages of a dedicated Email Subscription Service. We listed out 10 advantages that Feedblitz Email Service have, over Feedburner Email Service, and the article got published at Quick Online Tips, which is a popular technology blog, publishing breaking technology news, blogging tips, computer software and Web 2.0. I would like to share the article in here for the benefit of MC! Readers.

Find out Why Feedblitz is much better than Feedburner Email by clicking here. You will also find solution if you insist on using Feedburner on your Blog for Burning Feeds.

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Send SMS to any Mobile Right From Your Inbox

160by2 provides an Email to SMS facility which let you send SMS to any mobile number within India right from your Email client, thereby saving you from the trouble of a separate pageload and login. 160by2 will deliver the message in packets of 80 characters (each SMS will contain 80 characters of the message) and the delivery is almost instant. We tested this facility and we received the SMS within 30 seconds. You will also get an Email from 160by2 that confirms the delivery of your SMS.

Before you can start sending Email SMS's, you will need a 160by2 account. Signup is free and will not take more than 5 minutes. During signup, you have to provide the Email id from which you are planning to send SMS.

To Send SMS via your Email, the message has to be formatted as described below.

• The recipient should be recipient’s mobile number, followed by @160by2.com so that it reads <receiver mobile number>@160by2.com. For example: If the recipient is 9995394558 then the recipient Email address in your Email program must look like 9995394558@160by2.com
• The Subject line must be your username of 160by2 or your mobile number that you used to signup with 160by2. If the Email address and the username or mobile number does not match, an Email from 160by2 will report the failure of delivery. 

The greatest advantage of this service is that the SMS can be sent irrespective of the email program you use. So even if your employer blocks all email services except the company email, you can signup with 160by2 with the company email and then send SMS to all your friends.

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Feedblitz has some Unique Subscription Options

We had been using Feedblitz email delivery service even before Million Clues! was born went live. But it’s only recently that we noticed some unique subscription options available with Feedblitz, which are hard to be found elsewhere, including Feedburner. In addition to regular email, Feedblitz can send content updates to Twitter, Skype and Instant Messengers like AOL Messenger, Microsoft Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger (see image)

Regardless the method of subscription, each one needs verification, so you can be assured against spammers. If email delivery is chosen, a confirmation link is sent to the email address provided for validating the user. Every other service has its own kind of verification to ensure that the user is the valid owner of the email address provided. For instance, when Yahoo! Messenger is chosen, the user is asked to add a friend with the name ‘FeedBlitz.Alerts’ and send a instant message with content ‘OK 124738’ to this friend.

So if you do not check your email regularly, then you can choose any one of these alternatives to subscribe to a blog. This is another reason to use Feedblitz Email Service rather than Feedburner Email.

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Best Blogging Practices and Search Engine Optimization

I got a chance to guest post on VitaminCM. And this was my first post there. I did a lot of research into making this one and thought I should share it in here too.

The article is targetted at both Fresh and Pro Bloggers. It discusses the best ways to gain more audience from Search Engines and the best practices that can bring your Blog into the lime light.

Read the Post at VitaminCM

Google Knol is now available

Google yesterday released its Knowledge Sharing Platform, Knol . With the release of Knol, Google plans to put a tough competition with Wikipedia and win a better share of the Internet.

Recently, there was a lot of buzz about this new Knowledge Bank, but the initial Buzz was lost and the official release of Knol took more than 2 months.

Coming back, Every post written in Knol is called a 'Knol'. Google has a tie up with New Yorker magazine which will let a author use one Cartoon per post (to illustrate the post) from their Extensive Cartoon Gallery.

Why Knol..?

"Everyone knows something. See what people are writing about, then tell the world what you know"

Read What Google has to Say | Sign-Up For Knol
 

Ubuntu 8.04 is available for free download

Ubuntu, one of the most popular linux versions, just released its newest version named Hardy Heron 8.04. As always, Ubuntu is available for free download from http://www.ubuntu.com/
For those new to Ubuntu, Ubuntu is a linux based free Operating System developed by a community of programmers and developers. Ubuntu comes with a bundle of softwares that include office packages and productivity tools and some simple games. A new version of Ubuntu is available once in every six months. Ubuntu is named based on the year and month of its relase. i.e 8.04 means April 2008. Ubuntu has got separate versions for your 32-bit and 64-bit computers.
For those with a slow internet connection and has got the patience to wait for about 10 weeks can request a free Ubuntu CD. When the free CD Distribution initially started, Ubuntu encouraged users to request more and more CD's. But now their funds are drying up, so they will only accept request in small quantities unless you can convince the Ubuntu team.
Ubuntu CD includes both Installer CD and live CD packed in to one disc. You can boot from the CD and choose to see a demo of the OS. There you can try out all the applications that would be available once the OS is installed. Then you can choose to install the OS. Ubuntu CD also includes Windows versions of Open Office and interntet tools like the Mozilla Firefox.
To request or download Ubuntu 8.04 follow this link : http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntuJoin the Ubuntu community : http://www.ubuntu.com/community

Deliver Instant Group SMS Free using GupShup

GupShup is a free group sms solution available at www.smsgupshup.com, brought to you by Webaroo. Many solutions exists there online that can send sms to mobile subscribers but GupShup is different. You create a group, add your friends and then can start sending sms to the group with a single click. This one click sending is not available with many services.

Here is the deal. Go to www.smsgupshup.com, create a new account with a username and password, name your group and you are done. Add members to your group and start sending sms. The recepient is subscribed by default means there needs not be any confirmation from the receiver. GupShup gives an option for the subscriber to stop receiving sms. The receiver has to send an sms to the number that GupShup provides, details are send to all subscribers along with the first sms.

To create a group from mobile send 'CREATE' followed by the groupname to 567673434. Help comes to you when you send HELP to 567673434. You can post messages to this number from your mobile and GupShup delivers them to your subscribers instantly.

One good thing about GupShup is that you can specify whether your group is private or public. Public groups are open to all, i.e anyone can join. At GupShup you can join others public group. Groups are organised as per category and finding your favorite group is not a problem.

GupShup is a handy service for college gangs and friends groups. Put it into good use.

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Send Free SMS To Any Mobile In India Using GPRS

Do you have a Mobile phone with a GPRS connection.. ? Then this is for you. A website named www.160by2.com is offering a service whcih allows users to send sms to any mobile number in India for free. Your message can be 80 characters long. The remaining 80 characters is filled up by advertisments chosen by 160by2. So basically its a new kind of advertising program. And now you know why it is named 160/2. 80 for the user and 80 for the advertiser

Here is the procedure :

• Visit 160by2.com from your desktop, and sign up giving your personal details and mobile no.
• You will recieve a password as sms on that mobile number and will be asked to change the password
• Go to 160by2.com from your web browser on the mobile and sign in with the username and password.
• Type in the recepient's mobile no. and the message and click on send.
• You are done !

Some Good things about 160by2 :

• The service is free.
• Messages are delivered really fast.
• We can make a contact list online, so its easy to add recepients.
• And 80 characters is a decent length.
• The mobile version of 160by2 uses very less bandwidth ( about 4 kb ). So those who are charged per kb of data transfer wont be charged.

Some not things about 160by2 :

• There is no option to count the no. of characters. So you do not know whether you reached 80 or not. And even if we exceed 80 characters the message is sent with the first 80 charchaters. One way to get rid of this problem is to type the message in the phone's ' Write Message ' area ( The place where we write the normal sms's, there we have a character counter ) and copy the text to 160by2.
• This is available in India only. No International SMS is possible.

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Get Free SMS From MyToday.com : Service Available For Indians Only

MyToday.com Offers a variety of Free SMS Services to its subscribers. It can send you Jokes, Updated News, Bollywood news, Tips and much more.  See the list of SMS Services and KeyWords.

The best thing about MyToday is that it is free. You have to send a request SMS first. ( Your Subscriber will charge you a STD SMS for this )

Here is the way to request.

• To subscribe for Jokes Send "START JOKES" without quotes to 9845398453. Replace JOKES with the keyword of your choice. List of Keywords is available here.

• There is a much better way to save on the SMS charges that your subscriber will charge you for the request SMS. You can do this by registering your mobile with MyToday.com. SMS REG to 9845398453. Your will recieve your password as reply.
  Then you can login with your mobile no. and password at MyToday.com and Subscribe for those services for that you need online without sending separate SMS requests.

Service is presently available in India Only.

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Quality Blogger Templetes at FinalSense.com

FinalSense.com is an awesome website that brings to you technology news, Game reviews and as mentioned... it has got a really good collection of Blogger templetes.

FinalSense have got both new and old blogger templetes sorted into various categories like 3-coloumn templetes, Business templetes..etc..

If you are a blogger looking for some quality templetes its worth giving it a look.

www.finalsense.com | Blogger Templetes at FinalSense.com
 

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Logging Into Websites Blocked By the Admin

Do u see the message ' This page has been blocked by your administrator '? And you still wanna use that website..? Here are some tips which might help you access them.

• Try the secured server https. All you have to do is type in https://www.website.com instead of http://www.website.com.This might work in some cases
• Try Browsing Using a Proxy Browser. Proxy Browser means a browser that is capable of visiting a website from a fake address. Many websites like Kproxy.com provide proxy browsing services. Just Google for Proxy Browsers and get a list of websites.

Google.org - The Philanthropic Wing of Google

Google is a multi billion organisation made to serve the people of the world. Google has got an award winning policy to 'DO NO EVIL'. To bring this policy into action google has got a separate wing that reaches out to the billions of needy people around the globe who needs a helping hand.
Sergey Brin & Larry Page, the founders of Google, hope that  someday Google.org will be more famous than Google.com.

In their words...
 " We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitiously applying innovation and significant resources to the largest of the world's problems. "
 
Google.org brings out the works of Google Foundation that uses Google's talent, technology and resources to solve the problems faced by mankind. It also supports several profit and non-profit organisations. Several potential areas like global poverty, enviornment and energy related issues are given thrust.

To fight poverty it has got the 'Acumen Fund'. A program named 'TechnoServe' supports enterpreneurs.  'Water Research' is another program that deals with issues related to the availability of good quality water.
For India Google has the program 'PlanetRead'. This organisation works to improve the literacy in India. ( Thank you Google ! )
A program named Google Grants ( www.google.com/grants ) supports non-profit organisations with free advertising.

Visit google.org

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Feedblitz For Webmasters - Let Your readers read Your own newsletter

All people connected to the internet do these things. 1. Send emails 2. Search the internet. Its only after these things pople go to read websites for informative contents in general.Most of the people first check their inbox, once they connect to the internet.

Webmasters or publishers will expect people to visit their websites. But only very few people will be really intrested in doing that daily. If one has a dial-up connection or some other narrow band connections, it will be a hard task for the readers to check your website daily for updates. Instead readers will be intrested in recieving the updated content directly delivred to them in their inbox. If you are a webpublisher or a blogger, feedblitz comes for your help.

Feedblitz ( at feedblitz.com ) is basically a free service that enables a user to subsribe to a website with a rss feed functionality or a atom feed functionality. Usually every blog or website has one or both of these. Webmasters can sign up for a free account and syndicate their website or blog. Feedblitz will give you the html code for a subscribtion applet ( like one found here ! ) which you can place on your website. Now your readers can subscribe to your website and recieve the updates to their inbox..

Feedblitz scans your rss or atom feed ( which is automatically updated as you update your website ) once a day ( for free sign-ups ) and tracks changes. The new content is sent to the readers automatically without any effort from the publisher so that the publisher can keep working on more content !
With feedblitz you can decide how much content must be delivered. I have set it to full feed so that my readers will get the full content in their inbox. You can reduce this to any number of characters if you expect your readers to come to your webite to read.

Feedblitz also offers premium services which requires you to pay a fee. With that you can customize the e-mails sent to your readers. Thanks to such quality service
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Note : Feedblitz is a trademark owned by it rightful owner.

Get Good quality mobile software from www.getjar.com

Visit www.getjar.com if you need some good quality mobile goodies. From themes to games this site has got a lot of sofwares for all kind of mobiles. Most of the softwares are freewarez. You can also find some shareware programs.

It has organised the softwares by catogory like productivity tools, security tools, entertainment, games, browsers and so on.

Try visiting www.getjar.com

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cyborgname.com - Get your technical name...

 www.cyborgname.com

Have you ever tried to speak as Arnold in terminator...? If you have tried , then you must have ended up in lots of 'eh' and 'aaa'.Terminator always speaks as a machine would do in technical names like 'Artificial Synthesised Digital Transmission System' or even more complicated way. Such technical names are collectively called cyborg names.

Here is a really cool website that gives the cyborgname for any word which is not more that 10 letters. Visit www.cyborgname.com.

The homepage of the website has the core of the site. A text field will ask your name. The as step two you can select your character. And just submit it to get your cyborg name.
For eg. If you give ARUN, thats my name, you will get Artificial Robotic Utility NeoHuman. Cool.. right..?

The website will give you a picture ( .gif ) with your name and the character you selected. If you cannot copy that picture from the page , you can find it in the cache of your browser ( Look in Temporary Internet Files for Internet Explorer. This folder is in your windows main directory. For opera users look in the 'cache' inside your 'profile' which is in the installed directory of Opera like C:\Program Files\opera8\. )

If you wish to place a similar applet on your website, you will find the code for that too on the homepage.

The website also offers to send you a t-shirt with your cyborgname and the character you selected. But this is not free, you have to pay for it. Visit www.cyborgname.com for more.

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