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How to Convert an Email to a RSS Feed & Embed It as a Blog Widget
This week, I had an idea to create a sidebar widget on my website that would let me issue short one-line email updates to a RSS feed. This would let me issue news alerts to my blog readers without the need to actually write an entire post until later - sort of like an embedded Twitter feed of sorts.
How To Pull & Publish User Information For An Author Bio Section in WordPress
You know, there really is a lot to be said for Wordpress. While it's true that most people will simply install a theme and only customize the Wordpress site to the extent allowed by the control panel, the truth is that with just a little bit of study and practice, you can easily tweak the PHP files to customize it for your needs.
5 Thunderbird Add-Ons That Will Make it Better Than Gmail
For many years, I switched between a whole range of email clients. First I went with Outlook Express. Then I bought a new computer and decided to test the waters with Thunderbird. Once Gmail became popular, I became an avid Gmail user for years. More recently, I've started experimenting with Thunderbird again.
How To Use Microemulator To Use The Internet From Low-Bandwidth Rural Areas [Windows]
While many people set up their mobile phone - such as rooting an Android or iPhone, for example - to allow for tethering and accessing the cellular data network with a PC, it is a practice that is generally frowned upon by the mobile providers. However, there are times when you're just desperate for Internet access, and you need the larger screen that your laptop offers.
Play Fast-Paced Paintball Online With Digital Paint
Most First Person Shooter games are rated too high for younger kids that may want to play games in that genre. Enter Digital Paint, with the free open source FPS offering called Paintball 2. This is a game that is appropriate for all ages - as the only thing that will get hurt in this game is your pride.
How To Install PHPList To Host Your Own Subscriber System
There are a lot of blogs and websites on the Internet that have a subscription list, where you can sign up to receive a newsletter. Maybe you've even considered offering such a subscriber system on your own website, but it seems far too expensive and much too complicated to install on your own server. Enter PHPList, a free solution.
10 Apps to Make Your Old Windows Mobile Phone Useful
The other night, I stumbled upon my old Windows Mobile phone. Why do I have this great device stashed away in a drawer, when it could be put to good use? Even though there's no cellular service, it still has Wi-Fi capability, so it can still serve as a little mobile computer. I decided to transform this seemingly useless phone into a highly-useful, productive mobile network device.
Take Control of Your Internet Tracks With MAXA Cookie Manager
Internet cookies. You've heard of them, you've been warned about them, and you've grown to fear what they are telling the world about your Internet surfing habits. How can such an innocent sounding thing be so evil? Everyone loves cookies, right? Well when it comes to your Internet browser, cookies can be a good thing, but they can also be a bad thing too.
Take a Screenshot & Upload To Your Site In One Step With UpScreen [Windows]
There are a lot of important reasons why people need to take screenshots and then upload them to the web for online publication. We've covered many screenshot apps before but believe it or not, there is another tool that you may want to consider if you want to shave even more time off your screen capturing efforts. You can cut four or five steps from the typical screenshot process by using UpScreen.
Study The Movement Of The Milky Way With Solar Model
One of the things I'm always on the lookout for when searching for free apps to review are more cool space explorer apps or websites but most of them amount to nothing more than novelty apps. So I was pretty excited to come across Solar Model 2, because aside from being able to explore space in an advanced graphical rendering engine, it also lets enthusiasts and students "measure" space.
Free Ride Games Offers Full-Version Premium PC Games For Free
Recently, I started getting an inkling for a low-key game that would help me unwind, only require a few minutes to learn, and would be entertaining enough so that it would hold my attention. Since I've noticed that free downloadable games are usually the ones that are of much higher quality, I struck out in search of that genre. I am happy to say that I struck gold when I discovered Free Ride Games.
Create Better Online Shows With The Uprompt Teleprompter
YouTube video bloggers and entertainers make reciting monologues on-screen look so easy! It actually is possible to come across on-screen in much the same professional way as these pros. The trick is to remove the need to memorize what you're going to say, and instead just focus on saying it as professionally as possible. You can remove that need for memorization with free teleprompting software called uPrompt.
The 4 Best Recipe Apps for Android Phones
One of the problems many families have today is that no one really has time to make dinner. It's hard to plan out the meals - so when dinner comes, it's hard to cook when you don't even know what to cook. Luckily, I've found four Android recipe apps that completely eliminate the time required to think up good meals, and they are also there when it's time to cook - with easy step-by-step instructions.
How To Add A Print Button To Your Web Page
You know, something like adding a print button to a webpage sounds pretty simple, right? In this article I'm going to provide four ways that you can integrate a printing button or link into your website - from the very simple HTML and Javascript approach, to the more customizable CSS approach.
Turn Your Android Phone Into a Shared Internet Launching Point With PAW
One of the things I've been toying with is making portable web servers. What if I could set up a mobile web server on my phone, and then share out any web content that I have? What if I could carry around a customized start page that I could use to access important weblinks on the network? The good news is that using two tools - the PAW Mobile Web Server, and the SPGM - this is all possible.
Create Your Own Hosted Auction Website With WeBid
There are many cases when non-profit organizations want to create their own online auction site with proceeds going to charity. Or maybe you'd like to host an auction site on your own website that's focused on niche items related to your site. Whatever your need, you can install a really useful script on your web server called WeBid that lets you host your own fully-functioning auction site.
How To Regularly Back Up Your Large MySQL Database with MySQLDumper
As I watch my own Wordpress blog grow in both posts and user comments, I'm starting to eye my growing database with a wary eye. What happens if the server goes down, gets hacked or worse? Shouldn't I be prepared for such a situation with a constant, ready backup of all posts and comments? I finally came across a brilliant free MySQL backup utility called MySQLDumper.
How To Set Up Multiple Portable XAMPP Web Servers On A Single USB Drive
For some time now, I've been trying to develop a very fast and easy way to create a virtual web server (basically a local web server), on my portable hard drive. Not just one though. I wanted to have the ability to set up multiple web servers that I could just configure as my localhost web server with the click of a button.
5 Free Android Games To Help You Lower Your Stress Levels At Work
Ever since I've had an Android phone, I've always been on the look out for addictive games that have the ability to capture your focus and hold it for a long period of time. We've covered a lot of Android games here at MUO, but when it comes to games that force you to become mindful and focused, I think I've found 5 of the best.