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Convert Twitter Lists into RSS feeds
Script Converter: Convert Indian language scripts to English and back
How To Get Contact Form For Blogger Blog?

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 08:30 AM PST

More than a month ago, I wrote a post about how you can look up links sent on your Twitter account using ReadTwit with Google Reader. Today I want to share with you about how to convert Twitter Lists into RSS feeds. It will make life a lot easier by allowing you to access webpages with links posted on Twitter.

I think following a Twitter List in RSS is a lot more helpful than having all links show up. This way I can narrow down the information coming in especially if you are following 100s of accounts.

How to get RSS feed of a Twitter list?

The RSS feed can be generated at the Twiterlist2rss Appspot page. The page is pretty self explanatory and you need to type in URL of the Twitter list. Here I used Twitter list of all the blogs we have at rtBlogs.

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Then click on ‘Get an RSS Feed‘ and it will create a URL for RSS feed of your Twitter List.
If you want to read this feed with Google Reader, just click on ‘Add a Subscription‘ while on Google Reader and paste the URL of the RSS feed from Twitter list into it.

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You are set and ready to read links from Twitter List in RSS with Google Reader.

If you are on Twitter follow Devils Workshop @devils_workshop and you can follow me @bombaypirate. The List that I took as an example has feeds from all blogs on rtBlogs network. You can follow the list @bombaypirate/rtblogs.

Link: Twiterlist2rss Appspot

Script Converter: Convert Indian language scripts to English and back

Posted: 10 Nov 2009 02:30 AM PST

I came across Script Converter which is in Google Labs with Google’s Indian domain. This looked like a great way to write using English alphabets phonetically as if writing the Indian origin language and it would convert the script. Script Converter does not translate pages and is not useful to translate websites or documents. What it does is converts the script retaining the phonetic context rather than keeping is contextual in meaning.

Script Converter supports Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. It can convert anything written in HTML. But Script Converter cannot convert text which is not HTML, for example text written with Java Script cannot be converted.

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How Script Converter is useful?

It is very useful to write a text in a different language using the English Keyboard by using phonetics. For instance to write a Hindi word you have to spell it out in English and then click on convert with the selected language and you get the word in Hindi. This is great to insert sentences in Indian languages in your messages or texts.
The other useful application of Script Converter is that it is perfect for someone who might know how to speak the language but not necessarily adept at reading that language in its original script. For instance I am very fluent in Marathi when it comes to speaking but I am not very comfortable reading Marathi script as I have not read much of it since school. Script Converter can really help here if I came across a website with content in Marathi. I could change it to English in phonetic terms and continue reading the content.
This is something that is quite unique with India, as most people can speak more languages than just English and might want to access information in that language but find it difficult to read the script.

This is an web application which is still in labs and hence being tested. I did not come across many instances of mistakes and seems to be quite accurate when it converts scripts from one language to another. Go ahead visit Script Converter and try it out, let me know in comments your opinions.

How To Get Contact Form For Blogger Blog?

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 08:15 PM PST

Contact Form is must for every blog in order to provide a platform for the users to interact with the owner of the blog. In WordPress one can use Contact Form 7 Plugin and can place them in the menu bar or can embed in the posts wherever necessary by installing this plugin, where as for blogger blogs there were no tailor made plugins to insert contact form/pages. One has to edit the Html or create their own custom code to do this.

Here are the best available options for a Blogger Blog to insert Contact Form:

FormSpring – Forms can be added easily by editing HTML.

Features:

Smart Routing
Spam Protection
Website Integration
Easy Form Builder
Custom Confirmation Emails

123 Contact Form – You can integrate the code easily by placing the link, No programming or HTML knowledge is required to use this. Adding email forms, web forms, polls and other types of html forms to your website is very easy.

Kontactr – You have to place the JavaScript into your Blogger post. It is Clean and Simple, It uses CAPTCHA Protection hence forth it is secured and it is highly customizable and the best of all is it free.

My Contact Form - Using MyContactForm is as simple as 1 2 3, After Creating the contact form, Click on “Get HTML” to get code and paste blogger post in HTML mode. That’s it you are done.

Pow Page Contact Us -You can create or place a text link either in the menu or sidebar to click on to go to form.

EmailMe Form – You’ll find a code to add a link that points to the contact form generated, or click on “Get the HTML Code” and get the code to insert directly into your site. It is secure and works with any platform.. You can use it for your Wordpress blogs too.

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