It is quite rare to find any website nowadays that do not provide RSS Feeds, but for those still not in the game and you still would like to monitor their pages, well, Page2RSS to the rescue.
It’s simple, provide the URL of the page, get the RSS Feed, subscribe to it using your Feed Reader. From now on you will get updates on whats new in the page you provided.
To make the proccess even easier you can use the Page2RSS bookmarklet, so you can just click it while on a page you would like to monitor.
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April 26th, 2008
Two months ago we got the bad news that DIVX will be shutting down their video portal Stage6 for multiple reasons. Stage6 was so popular and successful but the costs were so high that in the end DIVX just had to pull the plug.
Now we read some new news that a Stage6 clone is in the making and going to be ready on the 29th of April 2008, at first the clone was named “DivXit” and had the domain name divxit.net, but now when I tried accessing that address it took me to another domain vreel.net.
So now the Stage6 clone is named Vreel and will launch on the 6th of May 2008 rather than 29th of April 2008. Why the quick change of name and delay in date of launch, well in their Q&A Session they say:
“Our lead programmer had a family emergency, which required him to take a leave of absence. Over this time, we continued to develop on the design and layout of Vreel, and we believe that this extra time will benefit the end user in the long run. We promise it’ll be worth the wait.”
For more Q&A Click Here.
So lets wait and see maybe tomorrow there will be another name and address I just hope its not a prank in the end.
[Via gHacks]
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April 25th, 2008
How many times have you tried to take a screen capture of a website and end up taking multiple images and going to photoshop to glue them together? It is really a difficult thing to do specially when you need to scroll down a number of times.
I used to use couple of applications that would to do the trick for me, but now there is an easier and faster online solution. Just go to Super Screenshot and enter the URL you want to capture, you will be able to save it as a JPG or a PNG, in addition to that you can also specify the dimensions and the size of the image. Ofcourse if you want more control and more options you will need a more advanced application.
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April 20th, 2008
South Park’s latest episode “Over Logging” is one of many amazing episodes, but I guess I can relate to this episode more than anything else, I Guess anybody who uses the net for anything these days can totally relate to it. Just imagine one day you wake up and there is no Internet!! Don’t tell me you wont do the unthinkable to get your precious INTERNET back.
I guess one of the best lines from the episode was:
“Don’t you get it? There’s no Internet to find out why there’s no Internet!”
“What did we used to do to get the news before the Internet?”
“TE..LE..VISION!!”
You can watch the Full Episode on South Park Studios, Click Here.
But, here is one of the best scenes:
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April 20th, 2008
Who is hosting this allows you to know who is hosting any website, simply enter the URL of the website you want to find out who is hosting it and they will give you the answer instantly. They claim that they are right 98% of the time. Although looks very simple, and although there are tons of websites out there related to webhosting and domains, I never saw a website that can strictly just answer “Who is hosting this website?”.
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January 30th, 2008
Opera filed a complaint with the European Commission against Microsoft to force it to make changes to Internet Explorer on Windows. Basically they want Microsoft to unbundle IE from windows or provide alternative browsers such as Opera and Firefox, Opera also wants Microsoft to make IE follow fundamental and open web standards.
I love Opera, no really I do, I used to use it as my main browser for a while and now I keep going back and forth using it and Firefox. And I RARELY use IE. And I understand what they mean by unbundling IE from windows, which is an old story, but anyway, and I am all with providing alternative web browsers.
Read more and watch Opera CTO Video after the jump…
In regard to IE following the open web standards, their argument is basically because IE has limitations and bugs in implementing the web technologies (XHTML, CSS, and DOM), and because IE is the most used browser developers are forced in make changes and tweaks to their websites to appear properly on IE. But what will happen? What do you want ?! You want the European Commission to rule that developers can only specific versions of those web technologies!!
What I see here is an angry/sad Opera because no one is using their browser, now maybe if they have been giving their browser for free from the start, things might have been different.
Here is the video of their CTO`talking about Opera’s antitrust complaint against Microsoft:
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December 14th, 2007
As you know there is a number of social news/bookmarking websites such as Reddit, Digg, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon. People share articles, websites, photos, videos and so on. Digg already announced that they will be having a special section only for images but it still didnt happen.
Here comes PICURLS, basically this website pulls all the top photos of the day from Digg, Reddit, del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Flickr, Simpy, Furl, Boing Boing and Wired. You can also subscribe to the RSS feeds for the pictures from each website or from all of the websites.
But PICURLS still have space for improvement, the 2 main drawbacks that i can see is that there is no community, none of the images has any comments, at least for the past few days, all what i can see is the number “0″ beside each image. The second thing is that when you click on the link it sends you to the source not the page of the website such as Digg and Reddit, i am not if this being done out of fear that maybe Digg or Reddit wont allow this to happen.
Anyway, in general this is a very nice website, and one day it could become something if it kept on developing.
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November 6th, 2007
