RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is great for news and keeping up to date on your favorite blogs and podcasts. But that’s not all you can do with an RSS feed. In addition to keeping up with blogs, here are seven great other productive uses for RSS feeds.
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7 Other Productive Uses For RSS Feeds
How to Save Any Image off the Internet
There are tons of images all over the internet. Some of them you may want to keep. Whether it’s a preview of school pictures, a funny image on some random site, a great photo you’d like for your desktop, there’s always some wonderful image you’d like to have on your computer. While insanely easy to do, you’d be surprised how many people ask me “How do I save a picture from the internet?”.
Here are the three ways you can save any image off the internet, even a “locked” image that can’t be downloaded.
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What Causes Hard Drive Failure?
Cracked screens and liquid spills are expensive, but nothing comes close to the expense of losing all your data, pictures, music, movies, records, schoolwork, anything and everything is kept on your hard drive. Backing up is vital, but most people just don’t bother. Maybe they think it won’t happen to them…
Let’s look at what causes a hard drive to fail. If you know them, you can lower your chances of your hard drive having serious problems.
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How to Create an RSS Feed From an Email Account
If you belong to an email list that sends a ton of emails, creating an RSS feed out of them is much easier to manage. Also, not every site is set up to serve notifications in RSS format. Instead they use email. For example, if you have to track a large amount of packages, an RSS feed would work well except UPS, FedEx and DHL use email notifications instead.
There’s many services and tutorials around that show you how to send an RSS feed to your email account but what about the opposite? It took some time, but I figured out how to do it and I will show you how to create an RSS feed out of an email account.
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Seven Sites For OS X Friendly Online Flash/Java Casual Gaming
Gaming is challenging for busy people. Sometimes you don’t have hours, days and weeks to pour into installing a game, playing it and getting good at it. You just want to play quickly, casually and then get back to your life. In this case, online Flash and Java based games are perfect for a quick gaming fix.
Here are ten online Flash / Java based gaming sites you can casually game to your hearts content in an OS X friendly environment.
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