You can customize your widget in terms of size, layout, color, font, code output, alignment, effects… etc. There is also an option to add case-insensitive keywords and conditions that determine which articles appear on the widget.

To turn RSS to widget, register on the site first, then enter feed into provided field, add title, customize settings and click on “Get Code” button. FeedSweep will then generate a code that you can grab and use to embed a widget onto your website.

Check out sample widget below:

Features:

• Generates widget for any RSS feed.
• Easily embed generated widgets onto your website.
• Customize widget in terms of size, color, background and layout.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Similar tools: Grazr, Feed Source, ScrollBox, WidgetEasy and Wigitize.

Check out FeedSweep @ www.feedsweep.com

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• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• Spectives: Visual RSS Reader
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog
• SaneBull: Add Financial Market Tracking Widget to your Site or Desktop
• Lists Widget: Get A Widget For Twitter List

Additionally to merging feeds, RSSMix provides a news-wizard utility using which you can embed feeds onto your website as online widgets.

Features:

• Turn multiple RSS feeds into one.
• There is no limit on the number of feeds you can merge.
• Embed generated feeds onto your website as web widgets.
• Supports only RSS.
• Free, no sign up needed.
• Similar tools: FeedStich, FeedKiller, RSSMixer and FeedBlendr.

Check out RSSMix @ www.rssmix.com

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SuggestRSS: Get RSS Recommendations based on Your Feeds
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email

The setup process is very easy, just enter a Twitter list URL into provided field and hit on the “Get an RSS feed” button. Once the feed is generated, go ahead and subscribe to it. Done.

Features:

• Generate RSS feed for any Twitter list.
• Generate as may feeds as you like, no limitations.
• Free and easy to use.

check out TwitterLists2RSS @ http://twiterlist2rss.appspot.com

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• FeedStich: Combine Multiple Feeds Into One
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Yammer – A Twitter For Businesses and Enterprises
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• wwwitter: See Twitter Discussions For Any Webpage

A nice thing about this site is that it offers some cool feed collections under categories like gadgets, cars, phones etc. You could directly subscribe to them or build your own collection of feeds easily. Create different feed collections and view them in separate tabs. Also do a visual search for the content.

Features:

• Browse RSS feeds on cool visual interface.
• Subscribe to already existing collections or create your own collection.
• Share and link to your feed collection.
• Also subscribe to other users’ collections.

Check out Spectives @ www.spectives.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
• Rososo: Simple RSS Reader for Dummies
• MailBucket : Forward eMails to RSS Feed
• FeedSweep: Turn RSS To Widget
• FeedMingle: Atom & RSS Feed Combiner

The process is simple – create a free account, pick your feeds and send the commands via SMS to txtFeeder to read them. For example, you can send ‘feed list‘ and it will return your list of feeds. Then you could send the feed number and it’ll send the corresponding feed headline. Hence this is a good service for those whose SMS charges are way lower than their data charges and they just want no-frills information from the web.

Features:

• Read website feeds on your phone through text messages
• Currently US only. Sign up is free.
• Obtain information by sending simple commands
• Good for those who have a costly data plan

Check out txtFeeder @ www.txtfeeder.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• ReadAir : Google Reader App for your Desktop
• Pingie : RSS to SMS – Instantly!
• LazyFeed: Follow Latest News on your Favorite Topics

Since this service first takes permission from the comic owner to do what it does, there aren’t a huge number of strips available yet. But it does have some of the most popular web comics and continues to add more strips.

Features

• Quickly create custom webcomic RSS feeds.
• Choose the days and the number of strips you want to be delivered.
• Select the strip number from where you want the delivery to start.
• Registration required. Many popular comics available.

If you like reading webcomics you might be also interested in a couple of MakeUseOf article that were published earlier. These are 5 Great WebComics you Should Read and 10 Great Online Gaming Webcomics!.

Check out Archive Binge @ www.archivebinge.net [via Lifehacker] (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• txtFeeder: Read The Web On Your Cell Via Text Messages
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• ReadAir : Google Reader App for your Desktop
• LazyFeed: Follow Latest News on your Favorite Topics
• Individurls: Create Your Own News Aggregator Site

It enables you to create custom RSS feeds for Flicks using parameters like tags, tag mode, sorting order and maximum number of images to return. Users can also choose the sorting order between relevance, date and interestingness. Just configure these parameters and click on the ‘Flick-RSS-ify’ button to get your unique RSS feed.

Features:

• Simple and elegant Flickr RSS feed generator.
• Parameters to generate the RSS feed based on tags, tag mode and sorting order.
• Options to sort the order of images by date taken, interestingness and relevance.
• Free to use, no registration required.

Check out Flickr RSS @ www.degraeve.com/flickr-rss (by Srikanth AD from Techonaut)

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• FeedStich: Combine Multiple Feeds Into One
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wrapr: Cool Panoramic Image Viewer
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

The process is simple – sign up, add feeds and news sources (up to 4), customize the view by choosing colors, animation etc and then get the public URL for your page. Now you just have to connect to the monitor, go to that page and set full screen view to see updates in real time. The big fonts and plain colored background are perfect for a news tickler on a large screen TV. Just hang the monitor anywhere on the wall and take a glance at it whenever you need to check out the buzz.

Features:

• Get real time news on wide screen monitor or TV.
• Add up to 4 RSS feeds.
• Customize the color, style and the animation of the view.
• Provides a public URL, which could be easily shared.
• Use on any display you like, size does not matter.
• Free and simple to use.

Check out RollGator @ www.rollgator.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• TodaysFrontPages: See Front Pages Of Newspapers Around The World
• ThePhotoStream: Get News In A Rich Photo Interface
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• SpinSpotters: Find, Edit and Share Biased News Articles
• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display

Features:

• Topics based RSS feed reader.
• Just enter your favorite topics and get content delivered.
• It updates real time to bring you latest stories.
• Nice and simple user interface.
• Similar sites:  FanFeedr (for sports only)

Check out Lazyfeed @ www.lazyfeed.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• Individurls: Create Your Own News Aggregator Site
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
• ReadAir : Google Reader App for your Desktop
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile

The site provides RSS Feeds for many popular shows, you can search for feeds, check latest additions and browse shows alphabetically.

We have already reviewed a similar service earlier called FeedMyTorrents. Unfortunately, it’s no longer online.

Features:

• Subscribe to TV torrent via rss feed.
• Subscribe to as many feeds as you like.
• Torrents are automatically downloaded as soon as new episodes are released.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Also see 7 Useful Apps to Make Most of Torrents.

Check out ezRSS @ www.ezRSS.com (via TorrentFreak)

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• ShowRSS: Get BitTorrent RSS Feeds For TV Shows
• FeedMyTorrents: Subscribe to TV Show Torrents & Auto-Download New Episodes
• MyTVRSS: Get Air Dates for TV Shows in your Feedreader
• ItsHidden: Use Bittorrent Anonymously
• CheckMyTorrentIP: Check if your BitTorrent Downloads are Anonymous

RSSHandler is an RSS to podcast converter that aims to solve this problem by converting Youtube RSS feeds to FLV, MP4 and other such computer/mobile friendly formats. You can also get links to YouTube as FLV and MP4 to download videos to your computer or mobile phone via Nokia Mobile Code or short links.

Features

• Convert Youtube video feeds to FLV, MP4 or PSP format.
• Get Nokia Mobile code for the link to easily copy to your mobile.
• Convert Youtube channels, favorites and playlists using this tool.
• Subscribe to the converted feed in podcast reader to listen to them.
• Similar sites: YouTubePodcaster.

Check out RSSHandler @ www.rsshandler.com/converter (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• Filsh.net : Easily Convert Online Videos To Other Formats
• Anjo.to: Convert & Save Online Videos to Computer
• ZuiTube: Online Videos For Children

Currently works with Firefox 1.5 – 3.1b2pre, and the process of installation is usual.

Features:

• integrates comments to Google reader.
• Comments are aggregated from FriendFeed, Twitter, Digg, Hacker News, Reddit.
• The add-on works with Firefox: 1.5 – 3.1b2pre.
• Quick and simple to use.

Check out gReactions @ www.greactions.com

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• Unlinker: Quickly See Full Images Behind Links or Thumbnails

To create your widget simply specify the URL of the feed and then customize it with themes. When the widget is ready, grab the code and add it to your site.

Check out MakeUseOf Directory widget below:

Main Features:

• Create a free embeddable widget for your RSS feeds.
• Customize your widget to match your website’s appearance.
• Your visitors can switch between three different views.
• Supports RSS, RDF, ATOM feed formats and OPML files.
• Watch YouTube videos and flickr photos from within the widget.
• Add folders to organize the feeds.
• Similar tools: Feed Source, ScrollBox, WidgetEasy and Wigitize.

Check out Grazr @ www.grazr.com (by Tehseen from Ijaar.com)

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• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website

As you can see, two different URLs have been entered along with the title of the new combined feed. The result is displayed in the following manner.

FeedMingle can also be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS converter. You can also mix two or more twitter posts, blog posts or any feeds and publish the mixed posts to another twitter account or a blog.

Features :

• Combine rss feeds into one feed to produce a combined RSS, Atom, JSON and a widget.
• Simple and easy to use, just type in the URLs and the title and you’re done.
• No sign up required.
• Can be used as a RSS/Atom to JSON converter, RSS/Atom to widget generator, RSS to Atom or Atom to RSS converter.
• Similar sites: FeedStich, FeedKiller, RSSMixer and FeedBlendr

Check out FeedMingle@www.feedmingle.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Spectives: Visual RSS Reader
• FeedSweep: Turn RSS To Widget
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

You can keep track of your merged feeds at one place and easily edit, delete and share them with others. FeedStich has user friendly interface and works with your existing Google, Yahoo, Twitter, AOL, Facebook or open ID accounts.

Features:

• Combine feeds into one.
• Supports RSS, Twitter, Delicious, Tumblr, GitHub and Flickr data feeds.
• Share your combined feeds with others.
• Download data as JSON.
• Nice design and easy to use.
• Works with your existing Google, Yahoo, Twitter, Aol, Facebook or open ID accounts.

Check out FeedStitch @ www.feedstitch.com

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• TwitterLists2RSS: Generates RSS Feeds For Twitter Lists
• TwitterGram: Automatically Post Flickr Photos to Twitter

There is no limit on the number of dates you want to track and you can easily add and delete birthday entries anytime you want.

Features:

• Get feed alerts for birthdays and other events.
• Add as many birthdays as you like.
• Customize how many days in advance you want be notified.
• Free and no registration.
• Similar: BirthdayAlarm and RemiMe.

Check out RSSBirthday @ www.rssbirthday.net

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• RemiMe: Online Birthday Reminder Calendar
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YourLi.st : Get Event Reminders by eMail
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

It is quick to show the results and also provides filters such as feed type, Feedmil rank and language filters. You can also see the frequency of posts in a particular feed which can help you decide if you want to subscribe to it.

Features:

• Uncover long tail of interesting feeds.
• Adjust feed popularity using a horizontal slider.
• Filter search results by feed type and language.
• Check the frequency of posts in a feed.
• Similar websites: SuggestRSS.

Check out Feedmil @ www.feedmil.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

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• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SuggestRSS: Get RSS Recommendations based on Your Feeds

When it comes to Distill, it generates RSS feed that filters popular Digg stories by the total number of diggs stories received. It asks user to set the minimum number of required diggs and then generates a custom feed that users can subscribe to.

Features:

• Filter Digg RSS feed for popular stories.
• Stories are filtered by number of diggs that you set.
• For more cool Digg tools read The top 5 Digg Tools to Make you a Better Digger.

Check out Distill @ www.disstill.com

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• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile
• WebbAlert : Your Daily Tech RoundUp
• Viewmy.tv
• Vicito: Get Peronalised News in your Chat Program

To get started all you have to do is go through quick registration process and then add your feeds. You can add them one by one or import as an OPML file.

Additionally you can tag feeds with colors. This is useful if you want to keep an eye on particular feed, tagging it with specific color will make it stand out.

Features:

• RSS feed ticker to monitor you feeds online.
• Displays your feeds as big bold headlines on black background.
• Tag particular feeds with colors and make them stand  out.
• Add you feeds one by one or import as OPML file.
• Free and easy to use.
• Similar tool: Snackr.

For more info watch the demo video below:

Check out RSSFeed.me @ www.rssfeed.me (via Lifehacker)

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• Rososo: Simple RSS Reader for Dummies
• LazyFeed: Follow Latest News on your Favorite Topics
• Individurls: Create Your Own News Aggregator Site
• Feedmil: Discover Interesting RSS Feeds
• FeedChronicle: Create Your Own Online Newspaper

ToRSS can be used in two ways:

1.  Use it with any external email account (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Yandex… etc) which supports POP. (Note: Please note that giving your email credentials to a third party is never safe)

2.  Use ToRSS to generate internal email (email@torss.net) account to which you can subscribe. It will work the same way as external email, the only difference is that it is a temporary email account and lasts only one week.

Features:

• Email to rss feed converter.
• Read your emails on your favorite feed reader.
• Works with any email account that supports POP3.
• Option to generate temporary ToRSS email accounts that delivers messages to your Feedreader.
• No registration and simple to use.
• Similar websites: MailOnFeed

Check out ToRSS @ www.torss.net

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• R-mail : Forward Feeds To Email
• Nouri.sh : Convert RSS Feeds to a Newsletter
• MailOnFeed: Receive Emails in Your Feed Reader
• FeedMyInbox: Get RSS Feeds Delivered to your Email
• Zuplo: Cool Stationary Backgrounds for Your Emails

First, copy paste your feeds and add the title. Then you can customize size, text and colors. Finally, click on the “Create Scrollbox” button to generate an embeddable code. Copy the code and add it where you want the feeds to appear.

Features:

• Easily embed rss feed into website.
• Customize text, color, text and background.
• Simple and easy to use.
• No registration.
• Similar sites: Feed Source.

Sample ScrollBox widget:

Check out Scrollbox @ www.widgets.cc/rss/scrollbox

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• Grazr: RSS to Widget Converter
• Feed Source: Add external RSS Feeds to your Blog
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website

The process is straightforward, after registering start adding your feeds and set the time for when you want feeds to be delivered. That’s it. After that you should be getting added feeds on your Kindle device on a daily basis.

KindleFeeder also allows you to copy and paste chunk of text into provided online form and have it delivered to your device as well.

The service is completely free and you do not have to pay any subscription fees for it in the Kindle store. Check it out.

Features:

• Get favorite feeds on your Kindle device for free.
• You can easily send simple text pargarpahs as well.
• Add up to 30 RSS feeds from blogs, magazines and whatever you can find online.
• Completely free (no subscription fees).

Check out KindleFeeder @ www.kindlefeeder.com

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• Zoomii : Virtual Bookstore for Amazon Books
• Zlert : Get Alerts From Amazon
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds

The site hosts RSS Feeds for many popular TV-shows and claims that RSS feeds are filtered prior going online. This means that torrent feeds contain no duplicates and only torrents with the best quality of seeds for every single episode of the TV-show.

Additionally to TV-show feeds FeedMyTorrents also provides you with the ability to create your very own RSS Feed. You can remotely add torrents, so they are downloaded while you’re away.

Features:

• Subscribe to TV show torrents in your torrent client using RSS feeds.
• Subscribe to as many feeds as you like.
• Create your very own RSS Feed by adding torrents (registration needed)
• Simple and easy to use.
• Also see 7 Apps to Make Most of TORRENTs.

The site is dead now, check out ezRSS instead.

Check out FeedMyTorrents @ www.feedmytorrents.com

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• ShowRSS: Get BitTorrent RSS Feeds For TV Shows
• ezRSS: Provides Latest TV Show Torrents Via RSS Feeds
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds

To get feed suggestions, simply export all your subscriptions from your feedreader as an OPML file, then upload the file on to SuggestRSS. SuggestRSS will run a comparison and give you a list of feeds.

Features:

• Get feed recommendations based on your subscriptions.
• Degree of similarity for each feed is shown as %.
• Easy to use and free.

Check out SuggestRSS @ www.suggestrss.com (via labnol)

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email
• ScrollBox: Embed RSS Feeds Onto Your Blog

After a 2 minutes signup process you can begin playing with your feeds. One of the best ways you can make use of this app is using its aggregator RSS service. Most of the bloggers use Feedburner as their RSS aggregator. Feedburner has a limitation in the sense that you can’t combine multiple feeds together to form a new feed. XFruits will do that for you in a jiffy.

Feature overview:

• Website with a variety of RSS feed tools.
• Get several syndication feeds in a single feed.
• Change a syndication feed into a webpage.
• Create a mobile website with your blog’s RSS feed.
• Get all your emails as RSS feed.
• Create a PDF file from RSS feed.
• Get RSS feeds delivered to your email.
• Convert feeds into speech.

While xFruits offers plenty of tools for the feeds there are some more ways to make use of the feeds. See RSS section as well as previously published post, 14 “OTHER” Ways to Use RSS Feeds.

Check out xFruits @ www.xFruits.com (Contributed by ROW from reviewofweb.com)

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• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SuggestRSS: Get RSS Recommendations based on Your Feeds
• SendMeRSS : Send RSS Feeds to Email

As of now, you have to stick to the default feeds provided by the service. Custom feeds feature can be expected soon.

Features:

• Simple and easy to use online newspaper maker.
• Customize your newspaper by selecting feeds you like.
• Comprehensive and divers list of default feeds.

Check out FeedChronicle @ www.feedchronicle.com (Contributed by Venkatesh Varalu)

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• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
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• FeedJournal : Turn RSS Feeds to an Elegant Newspaper
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website

When I tried to use FeedBeater myself, I found that the service couldn’t handle all types of URL as it claims. For example, FeedBeater could beat Techmeme’s URL  but it couldn’t beat Wimkhan’s URL, URL of my personal wordpress blog.

Features:

• Create feed from website URL.
• Easily subscribe to created feed using almost any feed reader.
• FeedBeater browser bookmarklet is available, it lets turn any web site into a feed without having to visit FeedBeater website.
• FeedBeater widget or script supported, allows your site visitors quickly subscribe to any page on your website.  (webmasters only)
• Similar websites: Feedity and Page2RSS

Check out FeedBeater @ www.FeedBeater.com (Contributed by Wim Permana from Wimkhan)

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

Hence if you are a geek or even tech savvy, Bloglovin is not for you. It’s for the rest of the crowd who aren’t into web tools and would prefer a simple solution to read their favorite blogs and websites and get notified when they are updated.

You might also want to have a look at a similar website called Rososo that was profiled earlier.

Check out Bloglovin @ www.bloglovin.com (Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Rososo: Simple RSS Reader for Dummies
• MailBucket : Forward eMails to RSS Feed
• FeedChronicle: Create Your Own Online Newspaper

The application works with any website that provides RSS, Atom or XML feeds. For websites that does not support feeds check out previously published How to Monitor Websites that don’t have RSS Feeds. 

Another neat feature is the option to apply keyword filters and watch sites for specific content changes. Quite handy.

Furthermore if you have a personal blog or website you can embed Notifixio.us widget and allow your visitors to subscribe to your blog and receive new articles from any categoy they want.

Features:

• Monitor websites for changes and get notified by email, SMS or IM.
• Monitor as many sites as you like.
• Option to apply keyword filters and get alerts only for specific changes.
• Supported IM services: GTalk, Aim, Live Messenger, Jabber, ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger.
• Other similar websites:PageTiki, Page2RSS, FeedMySearch and Feedity.

Check out Notifixio.us @ www.notifixio.us

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• Yotify.com: Stay Notified About Content You Are Interested In
• WatchThatPage: Monitor Web Page Changes & Get Alerts
• Trackle: Personalized Web Alert & Online Content Tracking Tool
• SparkTooth: Monitor Web Pages For Specific Updates

There is no limit on a number of sites you can add. Moreover, added sites can be rearranged using drag and drop interface and easily deleted if required.

So if you ever wanted to create your own Popurls-like news website then you should definitely check it out.

Once aggregator is build you can easily share it with others by forwarding provided URL.

Features:

• Create your own news aggregator site.
• Add as many site feeds as you like and arrange them the way you like.
• Share your personal aggregator with others by forwarding a URL.
• Clean and tidy interface.
• iPhone friendly: Access created page from an iPhone.

Check out Individurls @ www.individurls.com (via mashable.com)

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• LazyFeed: Follow Latest News on your Favorite Topics
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
• ReadAir : Google Reader App for your Desktop
• Yahoo Go: Yahoo Apps on Your Mobile

If you are making an iPhone version for your own site, you can upload an image of your choice that would be used as an icon for your site on iPhone screen. Moreover, you can get a  header code that can be placed into your template to automatically redirect iPhone visitors to iPhone version of the site.

Features:

• Make iPhone version of any website or blog that publishes RSS feeds
• iPhonize as many sites as you like.
• Upload website’s image icon to be used as screen thumbnail by iphone users.
• Embed provided code in to your site and auto forward  iPhone visitors to iPhone friendly version of your site.
• Simple and easy to use.
• No signup needed.
• Check out sample of iPhone version of this site.

Watch demo video below:

Check out Intersquash @ intersquash.com (via Mashable)

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• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• RSSMixer: Combine and Access Fav. Feeds via Feedreader, iPhone and Mac
• RapidFeeds: Create RSS Feeds For Any Website
• DoYouFeed: Make Any Blog iPhone Friendly

The application is simple to set up but requires some familiarity with things like IMAP and POP. Once you have signed for an account you will need to provide MailOnFeed with your email username, password and IMAP protocol details to your email account. Afterwards MailOnFeed will generate a feed which you can subscribe to in your reader.

Features

• Receive and read emails in your feedreader.
• Monitor as many email accounts as you like.
• Supports plain text and HTML emails.
• Currently only IMAP protoco is supported (POP3 coming soon).

Check out MailOnFeed @ www.mailonfeed.com

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• ToRSS: Turn Email To RSS Feed
• R-mail : Forward Feeds To Email
• Nouri.sh : Convert RSS Feeds to a Newsletter
• FeedMyInbox: Get RSS Feeds Delivered to your Email
• Zuplo: Cool Stationary Backgrounds for Your Emails

Features:

• Generate printable magazine from your favorite feeds.
• Receive Tabbloid magazine in your email.
• Customize delivery times: frequency, time and date.
• Put different feeds into one or separate printouts.
• Only newly published content included in each issue
• No signup needed.

Check out Tabbloid @ www.tabbloid.com

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• FeedJournal : Turn RSS Feeds to an Elegant Newspaper
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• YTPodcaster: Turn YouTube Videos into Video Podcasts
• YouTubePodcaster: Convert YouTube Results to MP4 Podcast Feeds
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website

So if there sites that you access from iPhone on a regular basis then definitely give a try. You can check out the iPhone friendly version of MakeUseOf here.

As you can see from the above screenshot it lookes pretty good. DoYouFeed even scales the images to make them fit on the screen.

Features:

• Make any website that has RSS feed iPhone friendly.
• Customize site appearance: Change Title, Theme, Language, refresh intervals and more.
• No registration or email needed.

Visit DoYouFeed @ www.doyoufeed.com

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• Spreed: Speed-Read your Feeds and Documents
• RSSMixer: Combine and Access Fav. Feeds via Feedreader, iPhone and Mac
• Intersquash: Read Your Favorite Websites on iPhone
• AppLoop: Convert Your RSS Feed Into A Brandable iPhone App
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software

Features:

• Simple online notifier that watches RSS feeds of your choice for updates.
• Add and watch as many feeds as you like.

Check out Rososo @ www.rososo.com

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• RSSFeed.me: Monitor Your Feeds On A High Contrast Display
• FeedChronicle: Create Your Own Online Newspaper
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog

Features:

• Get feeds delivered on to your email.
• Get as many feeds as you like.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out FeedMyInbox @ www.feedmyinbox.com

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• R-mail : Forward Feeds To Email
• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• ToRSS: Turn Email To RSS Feed

How does it work?

• 1. Sign-up.
• 2. Go to “manage pages” and click on “new page”.
• 3. Enter the address you want to track, select check frequency (hourly, daily) and click “Add page”.
• 4. Done !

Features:

• Monitor website for updates even if it doesn’t provide RSS feeds.
• Manage and watch as many webpages as you like.
• Get notified about updates via email or RSS.
• Customize check frequency: every 12 hours, daily etc.

PageTiki is not the first tool for tracking pages for updates, we have also reviewed Page2RSS, FeedMySearch (for search results) and Feedity. Plus a couple of more sites and Firefox plugins were mentioned in How to Monitor Websites that don’t have RSS Feeds.

Check out PageTiki @ www.pagetiki.com

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• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• FeedMySearch: Watch Google Search Results via RSS Feeds
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SuggestRSS: Get RSS Recommendations based on Your Feeds

Features:

• Translate RSS feeds into 24 languages.
• Translate as many feeds as you like.
• Allow your blog readers to subscribe to translated version of your feed.
• No sign up or registration needed.
• Translate feeds to Chinese, Check, Bulgarian, Japanese, Danish, Netherlands, Suomi, French, Deutsch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Svenska, English, Korean, Arabic, and Hrvatski.

See MakeUseOf RSS feed in Spanish, Russian and Chinese below:

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• Woxikon: Online Dictionary And Translation
• What Language is This: Online Language Identifier
• NiceTranslator: Translate Text To & From 36 Languages
• Mobile Translator : Free Online Dictionary for your Mobile Phone
• MeGlobe : Instant Messaging with Instant Translation

As you can see in the screenshot above, the homepage gives you a general overview of your feeds along with the latest updates. When you click on the story link it gets loaded inside the Spreed speed-reading player.

The player has a distraction free interface where you can easily focus on the words. There are also options to increase or decrease the reading speed. Spreed also lets you upload and speed-read the Microsoft Word documents. Quite handy.

iPhone users might also want to check out the iPhone version of Spreed. This one allows you to load your iPhone bookmarked feeds inside Spreed.

Features:

• Speed read your favorite feeds.
• Adjust the speed of the Spreed reader to a desired level.
• Upload Microsoft Word documents (upto 2 MB per file) and speed read them.
• See Most Popular feeds.
• Load your iPhone bookmarked feeds in Spreed.
• Request new feeds to be added to the database.
• Coming soon: Upload and speed read PDF documents.

Spreed on iPhone:

Check out Spreed @ desktop.spreednews.com

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• LazyFeed: Follow Latest News on your Favorite Topics
• Individurls: Create Your Own News Aggregator Site
• Zoho : Feature-rich Web-based Office Software
• txtFeeder: Read The Web On Your Cell Via Text Messages
• TodaysFrontPages: See Front Pages Of Newspapers Around The World

Search categories include web, news, video, blogs, local, books, images, and patents. Enter the keyword, select the category you want it to watch and get the feed. Add the feed to the feedreader and you’re good to go. Apart from RSS feed, FeedMySearch gives you an option to instantly add the feed to your favorite online starpage or feedreader including Netvibes, Google Reader and My Yahoo.

The FeedMySearch RSS feed includes descriptions, images, videos and some other useful info.

Google Alerts is another web app that offers almost identical features. The only difference, Google Alerts also allows you to manage and edit your watchlist items online.

Check out FeedMySearch @ www.feedmysearch.com

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• MakeUseOf 'Geeky Fun' - Hillarious Geeky Pics and Videos from different parts of web.

• ZapTXT: Get Website Updates to your email, SMS, IM or RSS
• PageTiki: Get Notified When Some Webpage is Updated
• xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website
• Wigitize : Add RSS Feeds from Other Websites to your Blog
• SuggestRSS: Get RSS Recommendations based on Your Feeds