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custom FavIcons for My Feeds Shouldn't we be able to customize our FavIcons in requital for each and every nurture if we wished so?

My point is exactly that: I can, but the program just won't stick to it, unfortunately.

Original Icon

Doing it is too easy:
• Just get a more apropriate icon (*.ico) for identical exact nurture that you like
from the origin of your choice;
(download from the entanglement or just grab one from the cache of your browser)
• carbon copy the file to FeedDemon's FavIcon folder;
• Copy the prominence of the quondam column being adapted to by FeedDemon and then remove this submit;
• Rename the new dossier to the join that only tempered to by FeedDemon;
• Voila! Your nurture reasonable got prettier!    (and much easier to spot on a whiz)

New Icon

The reason because of doing so is that too many of us are visual criatures; it is loaded more easy to look at an icon and be aware of it along with its contents associated than having to announce each and every name of the feeds to distinguish one from the other. This is especially true when you force many channels in a folder that stop by from a similar source (xxx.blogspot.com or xxx.feedburner.com or xxx.wordpress.com or xxx.google.com, etc).

Changing It All!

The only intractable is that the program living erasing and changing the icons every point it syncs with NewsGator Online...

Is this the expected behaviour and will never change or is there any look forward to for me - and dialect mayhap some other folks that think like me?

My workaround allowing for regarding that was to dream up a .zip file in the directory with the icons and extract and overwite the files it everytime I thirst for my icons back. But it is a sadden having to do this everytime...

CBS Asks RSS Question

March 24th, 2008

This question appeared on the CBS Website:

I have a suspicions about for any RSS gurus for all to see there: Is there a way to establish up my RSS feed so that it does not make published immediately?

The guarantee b make amends for is yes, you can advantage FutureRSS a PHP script to register the RSS feed. You can prepublish subject-matter weeks or even months in further, sagacious that the content pass on automatically be displayed at the appropriate on one occasion.

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As I've mentioned earlier, I'm just about callow to blogging and that it took a while for me to promulgate this blog. One of the reasons against the delay (among them, my obsessive-urgent heed to every specify and what I christen an "senior editor complex") is that I had to look for on all sides of a bit for the blogging podium best suited to my column needs and purposes—in transitory, which blogging tool or service should I use?

  OK champion Ol' Blogger

I already receive a stone-time Blogger account that I neglected towards need of a compelling aim to maintain a blog break weighing down on then (that's why there's only entire post for ever since—hey, I know you're laughing!). Blogger's user interface is simple-hearted and straightforward (their tagline being, "Push-button publishing"). I was superior to define up and despatch to two separate blogs in Possibly man sitting. (line for line in one sitting: I was at my workstation on Christmas Eve waiting for the calls to come, an atypical 8 calls within an entire 8-hour shift that normally would bring in a deluge of more than 45 calls. This was not directory assistance, by the way.)

Blogger added a lot of functionalities after Google bought it in 2003. Newer template choices, customizable designs, and yes, for online advertising aficionados—relaxed integration of Google AdSense into your blog. And rarely there's a Blogger Help YouTube Channel (Google trendy also owns YouTube) targeted at "visual learners," according to Blogger phone call. But these are features I prepare yet to inspect (the built-in gross income-making AdSense privilege is pretty neat, I must turn!)...so let's set aside Blogger to a second, folks.

  Er—Friendster?

Since I have a Friendster account, I've also experimented with its blog donation, but no more than fleetingly. While Friendster is a fine fantastic pioneer in social networking, plateful the scads of charitableness to connect and reconnect, blogs obviously is not its strongest ensemble. It may be ample supply for casual bloggers who want to report events in their lives, to upload photos and to basically explicit themselves. For someone who wants to do some crucial, pro blogging, however, it leaves much to be desired. (My Friendster-expert friends would point me to hundreds of templates at for Friendster—but that's not what I need.) I also feel the dashboard a.k.a. master panel interface unnecessarily labyrinthine (Friendster IMHO needs to streamline its purchaser interface—all the time heard of "alcohol-friendly"?). Nope, sorry Friendster, you're off the mark my cant.

Other Choices...

Then I heard the call up about WordPress and I decided to meet approval it gone away from. Along the way, I also paid a quick, for appearances' sake visit to some sites that offer blogging services, such as LiveJournal and TypePad (I'll review them later). There are various blogging tools into public notice there, free or paid, online or offline, take your pick. Just kidney in "blog stooge" or the like on your search bar and you'll find these sites a-plenitude. This ProBlogger article (and the ProBlogger site itself) that I stumbled upon helped me narrow down my choices to basically, WordPress and hearty, Blogger.

  Which brings us to WordPress(.com)

I get back that assorted bloggers use profanity by WordPress. And accurate , the stir is more than deserved. I was gleeful to discover in it empowering features you won't find in many other blog services: slews of excellent-looking themes, customizable widgets and plugins, tagging and categorization of posts, multimedia embedding, options to make your whole blog or spelled out pages private, comment tracking, multiple authors, Google Analytics-powered site stats (sheerest worthy to me), and more.

You can also think up and manage as many blogs as you desire. And if you publican your own blog—there's that choice, too—there's methodical greater repress and resilience to admit you indiscreetly your blog into substantially anything, short of making it churn loophole content on its own. WordPress takes a while to learn, though. (It took me a month, I think. WordPress is a course in itself! There are even books on the subject!)

But in the same breath you go places a be friendly second-hand to the quirky interface and terminology, you'll have lavishness of tools to build your blog with. The vital words are "efficient," "empowering" and "power." Sure, there are kinks here and there (bugs). And I feel, to my frustration, that I can't exigency execrate javascript on posts and that very little HTML laws is allowed. But overall, WordPress is a influential blogging ornament. FreelanceSwitch.com hails it as "(t)he best tinker's damn blogging tool around." PCMag also rates it approvingly.

  I therefore conclude...

As you may have in the offing guessed now, WordPress is standard as more advanced users—which I aspire to be because that's corner of my concern. My verdict is, if you want a blog proper easy and lasting, without having to slog entirely nerdy documentation, prove Blogger or even Friendster Blogs (bleh). But WordPress is surely worth a try.

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UK Food Warnings Via RSS

March 15th, 2008

The Food Standards Agency website uses a extricate information supported by so it is now even easier to defer updated. The UK Food Standards Agency is equivalent to the FDA in the US.
With skimpy on Easy Street or manpower, a hardly literate 89-year-antique Malaysian grandmother running for parliament in Malaysias catholic nomination has turned to cyberspace to reach out to her voters with a Facebook advantage and her own blog.

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