As Web Standard has been developed everyday, more design elements are needed to accomplish a standard web environment. Icon Sets should be one of design elements that responsible for easy accessibility and usability. You may know some of Standard Web Icons Project have been progressively developed in several communities. We're just trying to compile these "standarista happenings", to help spread the words and letting more readers understand why you need standard web icons. Language Icon The... Read Full Story
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A feed reader is supposed to speed things up. You don’t have to visit the blog to read what’s been published.
That’s how mine started and somehow I have managed to collect over 2000 feeds which I have categorized along the way:
Advertising
Affiliate
Blogging
Design
Developer
Forums
Internet Marketing and Make Money
Money (finance)
Productivity and Freelance
SEO
Social Media
Tech
Thinkers
Upcoming and Memes
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I just set up an automatic backup of all 3000 of my friends' Twitter messages and became able to search through their Twitter history two years into the past with just five minutes of easy clicking. Only two things are required: Dave Winer's new Twitter OPML tool and a Google Reader account.
Twitter's search engine only goes back about a week and a half. Sometimes you want to retrieve a message you saw, or get a feeling for what your circle of friends said about something, from longer ago... Read Full Story
Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is an XML format way of packaging up lists and is now often used to package feeds ready for importing into a new feed reader. The procedure is simple: you export the opml file from one reader and then import it into the new one. Exporting and importing an opml feed I have asked the feed reader Snarfer to export an opml list of my feeds as shown in the heading screen grab. The operation was simple and it took seconds to save the file to the desktop... Read Full Story
You have downloaded RSSOwl and seen the default view last time so now it is time to look at what you get inside the package. Start RSSOwl but, if you are a Vista owner, you have one further annoyance. Microsoft will complain about the file and make you check a box each time you want to open it. I have seem various quite complex ways of preventing this annoying behaviour happening but for me all I did was right click the program shortcut and choose 'Run as administrator'. I then choose to... Read Full Story
What is the best way to arrange, format and control information?
Simple text files?
What about Word files with all the formatting?
What about fancy mind-maps?
I actually think Bullet lists are great, but they get messy and become cumbersome.
OPML is different.
OPML (outline processor markup language) used for Outlines (somewhat similar looking to bullet point lists)
I’m now using OPML more than mind-maps, and I looove mind-maps. But mind-maps don’t very easily allow the... Read Full Story
How you view your feeds depends on what you want them to do for you. I have used so many feed readers that did not agree with me. The first one I stuck with for a little while was Rojo, because at the time it was the only one that would sort feed items by date. Other feed readers would sort specific feeds by date, but I wanted the newest post out of all the feeds to float to the top and then on to the next newest item. I have about 600 feeds I subscribe to and no time to click each feed to... Read Full Story
This is our group blog, which is unique because any Zimbio member can post an entry to it. Some members blog about recent news and trends related to the portal topic, others recount relevant personal stories. You can also comment on and rate existing blog entries, to voice your opinion and to help the community identify which members and entries on the portal are must-reads. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this portal? Well, then put on your journalist's cap... Read Full Story
This speed reading manual can increase your reading speed up to three times (or more)your current reading speed. It will also increase your comprehension. Instead of just skimming what you read, it helps read and absorbe more of the information that is presented before you.
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