Feed Validator, well ...validate feeds. Due to the fact that RSS and atom feeds are poorly implemented, many of these feeds break and becomes unuseable. Feed Validator will check whether the code is correct (according to standard and established rules) and suggest ways to fix it properly. Just submit the feed and if there are any errors, it will highlight it and provide you with some solutions. You can also run it locally if you want. The code is open source and available freely. The code is writen by Mark Pilgrim.

Feed Validator

Excite is one of the most popular personal portal on the Internet. It offers it's users a completely configurable portal. You can choice which information you need and have them displayed on your Excite page. Excite search is powered by Yahoo!, Google, Ask and other major search engines, arranged and organized for you by Excite. Excite also offers news snipplets, stock quotes and many other resources as well as a powerful web-based email service. There is a "lite" version of excite for those favouring a minimalistic style of portal.

Excite

A start-up page of sorts. What this site provides is a customized start-up personal home page where you can modify to your liking. For example, you would like to read the news from this or that online newspaper every time you start your browser - you can add "flakes" via RSS to this page. You can of course add numerous different "flakes" to your page like calendar, emails, to-do-list and so on. It is exactly like iGoogle. But come on, Google again? And I like Pageflakes better, mainly because the user-interface seem more sleek and user-friendly. You don't need to spend too much time fiddling with the settings and that is a good thing!

Pageflakes

Bit.ly is basically provides an URL shortening service. So lets say you have a very long URL which you want to share with your friends or customers, all you have to do is to let Bit.ly link for you. They will provide you with a shorter URL for your use. And not only that, they allow you to track and analyze your link - so you will know how many have clicked on your link. Signing up will give you more options like custom link keywords, real-time stats and powerful search tools. For me, I just use their shortening shorting service - it is great and very stable.

Bit.ly

WebHosting.Info is a website dedicated to research on the Web Services Industry. It provides their viewers updated information and statistics regarding this Industry. They offer a wide collection of up-to-date information on web hosting servers, dns servers and even IP addresses, all constantly updated. And they have a active forum for anyone wishing to discuss the current state of the web services industry. The main aim of all this is to create a free market and healthy competition as well as clean up the Industry.

WebHosting.Info

Your favourite domain name registrar. Offers many other features like domain forwarding, email forwarding, domain transfers and so on. Basically it is a domain name registrar with extras. Hover is a division of Tucows Inc., an ICANN accredited Internet company serving millions of users worldwide! The design of the site is simple, easy to understand and a breeze to management - something which makes Hover popular among their users.

Hover

An independent DNS resolution service available for anyone on the Internet. It offers a safer, faster and more efficient alternative to other DNS service providers, including the surfers' own ISPs. Their advanced feature enables them to protect against phishing, domain blocking, content filtering and misspelling correction. Their basic service plan is free (for anyone) while their paid deluxe plan costs about US$9.95 per year. They also offer an enterprise packages for big businesses needing their service.

OpenDNS

The ultimate in sticky notes. And not just sticky notes either. SpringPad offers a place for users to put anything as a reminder - photos, location, notes and so on. So if you have something to remember, or even an interesting idea, just put a note or anything on SpringPad so you won't forget it. Not only that, you can organize it so that you can retrieve information easily. No more mucking around finding the information you require. And you can easily "sync" with your mobile devices as well. Think of it as your own personal assistant. Life would be unbearable with it. SpringPad is available for free!

SpringPad

When you get old, one of the things you would realize is that you keep on forgetting things. And for someone as old as me, I have been forgetting things a lot. I once forgot to go home after work. So yes, it is good to set up a "to-do" list so you can jot down what needs to be done so you won't forget it. Even if you are young, sometimes things will still be forgotten. Teux Deux is a web-based application with a very simple interface so everyone can get into "to-dos" easily. No confusing buttons or whatever - just a straight forward list for you to write and tick off. And it now syncs with your iPhone, with the iPhone app. So yes, you can check or edit your list on the go as well. However, the iPhone app is not free. But it comes with multiple accounts so that you and your wife can share the "to-do" list and she will know which tasks is done. Some might think having multiple accounts is useful, some might not.

Teux Deux

This site is especially designed for all your mail server needs. You can use the free tools available on this site to test, diagnose your email server and find solutions. They offer tools like Email Blacklist to help check whether your email server has been blacklisted by any of the public Blacklist sites, MX Lookup to identity your MX Records, SMTP diagnosis to test your SMTP server, SPF tool to check your SPF records and free email server monitoring to monitor whether your email is up and running. They also offer email hosting services, spam & virus filtering and email disaster recovery.

MX Toolbox

Are you the forgetful type? Yes? Then Jott could be your best friend. And unlike most other reminder services, this one makes things much easier. Users access Jott through their mobile phone - just dial in, speak and Jott will record down your message and send it to your email as text. So when you get back home or to your office, you will have an email reminder waiting for you. Well, if only they could do the opposite. You send an email to Jott and they will call you maybe in an hour's time and repeat that email to you. Furthermore, they have this Jott Assistant which you could do a lot of things by calling their number - like email, set appointments, add to lists and so on. Sometimes technology and Internet is just so amazing.

Jott

A very unique service for anyone who is into reading blogs. Basically what this site does is to turn your blog feeds into some sort of a magazine for you to read or print out. Just click on "create tabbloid", choose the blog you want, choose the dates and you will be presented with a full magazine-like pdf file. Makes for easy reading as well. And yes, it will be emailed to you - directly to you when you want it. And the presentation and layout of the pdf magazine is pretty good - just like a magazine! Isn't life so convenient with all these services? The problem is that it is using feeds, so you might not have all the images to make the articles complete - mostly text from those rss feeds. It would be more useful if they can extract information from the actual site information. But alas, I believe that this option will need a lot of processing power.

Tabbloid

We love Google Maps, don't we? It is so very useful for both webmasters and normal guys like you and me. Need to find a place - use Google maps. Need your visitors to find your place - use Google maps. It is currently one of the best resource out there which is available for free. And webmasters use Google maps a lot on their website. Easy to setup and convenient. However, there is one small flaw - you can't really edit the map to your heart's content. Take for example if your store is located at the just on the right side of the building, you can't really show your customers on Google Maps right? Or if the entrance to your office is through the back door, it will not show up on Google Maps. However, with Scribble Maps, you can draw, edit, add text, add pictures or images and even export them to jpg images for offline use. If you would like even more features, you might think of going "pro".

Scribble Maps

A very useful website for web developers. Most of us don't even really care about what information is on this site but for web developers, this is like a goldmine. The problem with web development is that there are a lot of browsers available, like Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and so on. And add to the problem of different versions of the same browser, you get a huge headache - compatibility. Designing a site that looks good for Chrome, you might find it looking off in Internet Explorer. Especially when you are talking about browsers made by Microsoft where they don't always follow the recognized standards. And even if they do claim to follow such standards, it might not be implemented correctly. That is probably why this site is created. So good luck there web developers!

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