Mr. Bup’s Webmaster Guide

Ping-o-Matic is a Free Service That Pings All the Major Blog Services & Search Engines

Apr 13, 2010 Best of the Web, Blogging, Online Tools, Rss/feeds & Readers, Social Media Websites, Sweet Sites, Web Services

Ping-O-Matic is a FREE service that updates multiple blog services and search engines that your blog has been updated. By easily “pinging” these 22 blog services from Ping-O-Matic, you will be alerting all of them that your blog or website has fresh current content that needs to be shared with the rest of the world.

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Tags: Best of the Web, Blogging, Online Tools, Rss/feeds & Readers, Social Media Websites, Sweet Sites, Web Services

SpiceBird is the Free & Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Outlook!! Based of Thunderbird.

Mar 16, 2009 Client Software, Desktop Apps, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers, WebMail

SpiceBird is a Great Open Source Window Alternative to Microsoft Outlook

A while back we featured Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client and a nice gentleman named William Lefkovics responded that Thunderbird is no replacement for outlook, but Spicebird is. And with that in mind, here is an update on SpiceBird.

Spicebird is a collaboration client that provides integrated access to email, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging in a single application. It provides easy access to various web services while retaining all the advantages of a desktop application. The application is based on projects like Thunderbird, Lightning and Telepathy and adds more functionality and integration among its components.

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Tags: Client Software, Desktop Apps, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers, WebMail

RSSOwl is a Great Free & Open Source RSS Feed Reader For many Platform Including Windows, Linux, & MAC OS X

Feb 19, 2009 Browsers, Client Software, Desktop Apps, File and Data Sharing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers

RSS Owl is a Free and Open Source RSS Feed Reader. RSSOwl basically looks and operates like a proficient web or FTP browser. If you have ever used either Fire Fox or FileZilla, you should be right at home with RSSOwl. And, much like FireFox, you can save all of your favorites websites, or in this case, newsfeeds. In fact, the interface easily allows you to add and drop any or all of your favorite subscribed feeds.

Although the main features of RSSOwl are pretty self explanatory, the one feature I really like about it is its search engine. Its very powerful and accurate. In fact, you can easily search for and download podcasts straight to your local hard drive.

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Tags: Browsers, Client Software, Desktop Apps, File and Data Sharing, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers

Mozilla Thunderbird is the Free & Open Source Answer to Microsoft Outlook, Sort of !!

Feb 4, 2009 Browsers, Client Software, Desktop Apps, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers

Thunderbird is a fully featured, secure email client with built in RSS feed reader from Mozilla. With Thunderbird, you can easily manage multiple POP and IMAP email accounts and all of your favorite RSS feeds. Since Thunderbird features an aggressive junk mail filter utilizing Bayesian statistics your inbox should be spam free.

Tags: Browsers, Client Software, Desktop Apps, Living Under a Rock, Open Source, Rss/feeds & Readers