Canadian company Serence recently released V3.0 Beta of their KlipFolio(tm) RSS Dashboard software. This free, configurable, rollable, scrollable RSS/Atom/RDF reader uses a visual paradigm and currently handles 37 languages (using double bytes). Currently, KlipFolio runs only on Windows 2000 and XP. A MacOS version is in the works, but no word of a Linux version yet. [Hyperlinks below the sample image, at bottom.]

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Digital Inspiration have launched a new tool to preview ads for YPN, Adsense and Chitika ads, "All-In-One Preview". You can run it on both IE and Firefox to see which contextual ads are likely to fit your post best. Looks neat, but I'm not sure i'd go to that much trouble...

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Remember when Typepad's hosting took a nosedive last month? In general, TypePad customers were forgiving as the company seemed sufficiently apologetic (and they gave us a cookie).

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Yesterday saw the news that Yahoo! and MovableType have partnered to provide a simple hosting solution for bloggers. The code in MT has been jigged to work better with FastCGI (that Y! servers run on) and is said to be a lot faster than a regular MT intall, and Jeremy tells us that "you don't need to be a small business to use it. Individuals and Big Business can use it equally well". The question now is, how viable a solution is Yahoo! hosting for the professional blogger?

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There are certain tools and services that I use most days that I just couldn't do without. Some of them help in big ways, others small but all of them help with productivity. Here's ten fantastic links to give any bloggers day a boost.

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As some of you may know, there is much more to Performancing than just kick-ass posts on professional blogging, monetization and design. For the most part, we're just not at that part of the PPWD™ (Performancing Plan for World Domination) yet. But, we are very close to releasing one small but significant part of the plan. A firefox extension that will turn your blogging upside down, in a very, very good way.

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We are always on the lookout for a little extra productivity here at Performancing, let's take a look at some top Firefox Extensions for bloggers..

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