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Google Alerts is one of the most widely embraced services for tracking keywords in Google News, video, groups and in the blogosphere. While it has been incredibly helpful, one feature that was both widely requested and unavailable is the ability receive Google Alerts via RSS Feeds.

Well, as of yesterday, that has changed.

Introducing Google Alerts for feeds, using the feed reader of your choice.

Ponyfish is a free service that allows you to create simple RSS feeds for any Web site that doesn't offer one itself.

There are paid options if you want to manage your feeds and add further options. I bought a $24 (£15) per year plan to create a feed for this blog on CNET UK, and you can check out the results (and subscribe!) here.

Let's walk through how you can create a feed, using my blog here as an example. You don't need an account, but a free account is advised.

First, choose to create a feed, then take the URL of the page you want to create a feed for and paste it in the box.

Is Your Password Strong Enough ?

Your personal information ismore secure when you use a strong password. On this site you can test the strength of your password. Enter a password in the text box to have the password checker help determine if you have a strong password. The site can help you to gauge the strength of your password but does not guarantee the security of the password itself.

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clipper's remarks: How to optimize search in gmail with a few hidden labels

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Hidden Labels in Gmail

If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats.

If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query. If you want to search only your mail, exclude the chats by adding -label:chat.

Gmail has many other hidden labels that can make your life easier, so you don't have to use the advanced search:

* label:inbox - search only your Inbox. It's a good idea to keep your Inbox clean.

* label:star (label:starred) - search only your starred messages. You can use the star button like a bookmarking system. Star only important messages.

* label:draft (or label:drafts) - search only unfinished messages. Drafts could be used for storing notes or emails that must be sent later.

* label:sent (or label:sentmail, label:sent-mail, label:sent mail ) - search only sent mail. It may be useful to restrict your search only to messages you've sent, or only to messages you've received if you add a minus.

* label:all (or label:allmail, label:all-mail, label:all mail ) - search all your mail, including messages from Trash (label:trash) and Spam (label:spam).

* label:read and label:unread. Restrict your search only to read mail or unread mail. For example, to find all your sent messages that have unread replies, you can search for label:unread label:sent.

* label:voicemail (or label:voicemails ) - search only the voicemail received from a Google Talk user.

It's nice that you can combine all these labels with user-defined labels in a query. To show results that have both label A and label B, just search for label:A label:B. To show results that have one of the labels A and B or both, just search for label:A OR label:B.

Hidden Labels in Gmail by Ionut Alex. Chitu

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Twitter has been tweaking its search engine, experimenting with ways to sort results into your regular list of messages. But you can already subscribe to a search results in your RSS reader, which I prefer for tracking trends. These RSS search feeds create another great Twitter business tool.