The Techie Blog: February 2005

February 23, 2005

TurboScout

TurboScout users only need to enter keywords once to get original results from different search engines.

You will find TurboScout an invaluable tool for search engine optimization. Instead of visiting each of the search engine web sites, you will be able to use TurboScout to enter keywords and quickly find the ranking of a web site in the different search engines.

February 22, 2005

FreeFind Site Search

Do you need a site search engine for your web site? FreeFind provides a free version with no fixed page limit. All search engine software is hosted on the FreeFind servers so there is no software to download or install on your own server.

February 18, 2005

Permalinks

A permalink (permanent link) is a type of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) set up for a specific item of information, often a news story or weblog item. The Techie Blog has a permalink for each blog entry for referencing that specific entry instead of the entire blog.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has a more detailed explanation on Permalinks.

February 17, 2005

Techies

Are you a techie? Still not sure what it means to be a techie? Read all about Techies at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. You will also find information about nerds and geeks!

February 16, 2005

Free Microsoft AntiSpyware

According to CNET News.com, Bill Gates announced in a speech yesterday (February 15, 2005) at the annual RSA Security Conference that Microsoft AntiSpyware will be free. Last month Microsoft released a free test version (Beta) but had not announced until today whether the software would be free in its final release.

February 15, 2005

Ask Jeeves

Users of Bloglines will be interested in the following news story:

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MSNBC - Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines

SAN FRANCISCO - Underdog online search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. has bought Bloglines, a Web log index and Internet news funnel popular with serious readers of online journals, in its latest bid to gain ground on heavyweight rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Bloglines is a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and web content.

February 09, 2005

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to republish your RSS or Atom feed into a variety of formats. It is a very helpful tool for providing a compatible RSS version to readers that do not support Atom.

It will also format your raw feed XML into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format that displays like a web page and includes information on subscribing to your feed. For example, the raw feed XML for The eNetSC Journal was republished with FeedBurner into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format.

RSS to JavaScript

Free RSS to JavaScript conversion tools are available to easily integrate an RSS feed into a web site.

If you are interested in converting an RSS feed to JavaScript code for a web site, check out Feed2JS. This tool is easy to use and will allow you to customize the content to match your web site design.

RSS2HTML

With just a few easy steps you can convert RSS feeds to HTML links for your web site! The free RSS2HTML tool allows you to select a layout and color scheme to generate a URL that can be added to a web site.

February 02, 2005

The HTML Writers Guild

The HTML Writers Guild is a leading organization for web professionals. Members include webmasters, web site developers, graphic designers, programmers, multimedia specialists, system administrators, educators, e-commerce specialists, Intranet/Extranet specialists, and others who participate in the development, monitoring and management of web sites.

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