Did you know you can check backlinks to your blog by using Bloglines? You can use the following URL (replace "www.abc.com" with your own URL): http://www.bloglines.com/citations?url=www.abc.com

Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.
--- Linus Torvalds

You can translate text from German (any language) to English using google toolbar for IE. Choose options on Google Toolbar and choose "Page Info menu". Now whenever you come across a page in a language other than English, choose the "i" icon on the google toolbar and select "Translate into English". Since firefox doesn't support google toolbar, you can access the google "language tools" page here...
http://www.google.com/language_tools

You can use the google news search to RSS feed converter...
http://www.voidstar.com/gnews2rss.php
If you want to scrap yahoo news to RSS feed, try the following link (after changing the word infosys at the end of the URL)
http://tinyurl.com/6fr4c

You can download and install the software called noclone to find out duplicate files on your hard drive.
The "NoClone" software is free to try, but the trial version has a limitation that it will search only 3000 files. So it is better to check the number of files in the folder you want to compare for duplicate files.
http://noclone.net/

Ramayana is the epic about Lord Rama composed by the sage Valmiki. Ramayana contains 24,000 verses [sloka] arranged into numerous cantos [sarga] which are contained in 6 books. Each verse will be followed by the Word by Word meaning followed by its gist and explained based on theism, culture, literature as appropriate.
http://www.valmikiramayan.net/

If you want to understand the power of RSS, start with comics feeds! no kidding. Add the feeds from the tapestry page to your favorite feed reader, for e.g. bloglines. And see how easy it is to
keep up to date from within your favourite news aggregator, especially if you happen to miss a few days.
http://dwlt.net/tapestry/

Yahoo has added a new link to its search results: "Add to My Yahoo." Click and the page's RSS feed is added to the list on your My Yahoo site, the personalized portal from Yahoo.

I noticed that Yahoo is now including an RSS 2.0 feed with a few Yahoo Group. Nice. It even includes an orange XML icon. Not all groups have RSS support. The groups with the "Settings" set to Public archives are available in RSS format.
Yahoo can actually implement the concept of Password protected RSS feeds requested by a lot of readers/ publishers in the past.

"Filing is not that natural for people," said Ray Stata, Co-Founder and Chairman of Stata Labs, who is also an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California-Santa Cruz. "People are way too used to adapting to the software. I think the computer needs to adapt to the people."
http://www.statalabs.com/press/articles/merc.html