Free Automatic RSS Submit Utility

Allscoop RSS Submit Pro instantly and automatically submits your RSS feeds and blogs to all of the major RSS feed directories on the Internet.

RSS feeds are the fastest growing way to promote your site. Submit your blog or other RSS feed to directories will help to drive traffic to your site and blog. RSS Submit Pro can site submit your site to all the major RSS directories in just a few minutes. This freeware RSS software works on all Windows platforms and is a snap to install.

At the initial step, you record the required information to the offered form for every feed, and next you submit to all included site in a single click. Feed resubmission will leave you to make several clicks to initiate automatic submission process.

Website: http://www.allscoop.com/tools/rss-submit/

Download: http://www.ziddu.com/download/4957498/Allscoop-RSS-Submit-Pro.zip.html

39 Best Freeware Blog Desktop Publishing Utilities

As I mentioned in my previous post, many bloggers look forward on using stand-alone desktop applications to prepare their blog post before publishing them. WriteToMyBlog provides free web-based solution, but it has several drawbacks:

1. You need Internet connection when you work with the site.
   
2. You depend entirely on the site functionality and operation speed.
   
3. You have to provide your login data to get connected to your publishing platform, which many users do not feel comfortable to do.

Desktop Blog publishing utilities, while having their own problems, successfully bypass the noted limitations. You can work offline on your article generation and formatting, and publish it as soon as it is ready. That saves valuable online time and traffic, if your data plan is not unlimited.


In the Rating list, I am going to present today, I listed free software assisting bloggers in preparation, formatting, and submission the posts to their hosting sites with minimum amount of time and best outcomes. Presented utilities are to help those using free blogging platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, and those who prefer maintaining their Blog on the independent Web Site using server-based scripts.


I presented this list on this blog for the first time in January 2008, when there were just 14 utilities included. As of today, there are already 39 free computer programs, scripts, and plug-ins on the list. Feel free to review the collection, input your rating and experience, and even add some items that might be currently missing from consideration.


RateItAll List: http://www.rateitall.com/t-24825-blog-publishing-freeware.aspx


The programs with the highest rating are:

1. Windows Live Writer
   
2. BlogDesk
   
3. Qumana
   
4. W.bloggar
   
5. WordPress
   
6. Zoundry Blog Writer

Tweaking Color Schemes of AdSense Blocks with Portable Freeware

When you plant Google AdSense ads blocks on your blog or website, you might need to tweak the suggested colors in your template to fit better to your page. In some cases, you want it to blend in the page design; in some cases, you want it to be as bold as possible. Finding the appropriate colors might be challenging, especially, if you want it to be exact match. Identifying the type of color can be very difficult, but with Just Color Picker, you can get the exact color value of any pixel. Jpicker is small, portable, and absolutely free utility that will assist you in picking the right colors.

After starting to use the utility for Google AdSense ads tweaks, I found it very convenient for other design purposes, as tweaking my Blogger templates. The initial experiments show very interesting patterns, proving that even small changes in the sites GUI might be useful for the overall site effectiveness.


Features

• Five formats of color value: HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, and HSL.
• 3x, 9x and 15x zoom of any screen area.
• Picked colors history. History saving function for future use of the picked colors. Removal of colors from the history.
• RGB and RYB color wheels to display triads and complementary colors.
• Two harmonious color finders. With this feature you can easily pick harmonious colors, for example, for your web site. Just choose your favorite color and the color picker will find the best colors harmoniously matched with yours.
• RGB & HSV color mixers to edit a picked color.
• Gradient between two latest-picked colors to allow you to pick a color from a wide range between the chosen colors.
• Optional stay-on-top.
• User-defined hotkey to capture color info (Alt+X by default).
• Copying the color value or its selected part to the clipboard just by button click.
• No installation required. Just Color Picker is a portable application and can be run directly from a USB stick.
• Multilingual interface Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.

Website: http://www.annystudio.com/jcpicker.zip

Download: http://www.ziddu.com/download/4315421/jcpicker.exe.html

BlogSpreading: Spread a word about your Blog

Adding links to your Blog in your email signature is a well-known and well-accepted promotion technique. A small free utility helps to enhance this advertising channel. Blogspreading will automatically append a link to the latest post in your blog to your e-mail signature instead of referring to the standard Blog link, not driving much attention of your message recipients. A good title of your latest post will surely evoke more interest than a blind URL.

This might encourage your friends and colleagues to actually access your Blog through a Hyperlink and eventually become devoted readers and supporters of your Blog. All e-mail clients allow automatic adding of a signature to outgoing message. The signature is stored in an external text file. Blogspreading processes this file in such a way that it always contains link to the latest post. You signature automatically changes after each new post added to your blog: if the recipient didn’t like yesterday’s title, maybe he will be interested in the new one?

Link for downloading: http://blogspreading.com/download-blogspreading/