I’m a fan of various blogs and have a habit of subscribing to the feeds of the blogs and sites which I like to read it daily. But over a period of time, my Google Reader got piled up with the lots of RSS feeds. So, now I’ve a difficult time to read each and every RSS items. And most of the news items seems to be duplicated over various blogs and sites.

If you are a beginner to the internet and blog world, you would just have started your subscription and all you have to do is just to know how to manage the subscriptions. But for the advanced readers and the blog addicts, piling of the feeds will happen frequently. Now it is the high time for me to clean up my RSS shelf.

So, the big question is, how do I know which RSS should I get rid of?

Here is the arranged view of my google reader. There are 1000+ items in each section that is still pending with me to read. But I’m sure I gonna click ‘Mark as Read’ and I gonna get rid of all items ( including important and interesting stuff).

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Social networking fever has never left anyone. Hackers also now jumped into this social networking and GnuCitizen has created a social network for hackers and got about 1000+ hackers signed into this collaborative network to research on security loop holes in the online and electronic products. These ‘angel‘ hackers who hack the system on security issues and provide insight to the company in the security loop holes, so that the company can fix it.

“From our perspective, a hacker is a person people express admiration for his/her work, skills, creative edge, cleverness, uniqueness, intelligence, etc,” said GnuCitizen founder Petko D. Petkov in a blog post.

The network is built on Ning, a site allowing the creation of ad-hoc social networks, and programmers can create customized add-ons using the Google-backed Open Social API. GnuCitizen is famous for finding out various security concerns in various products including the Gmail’s security threat. GnuCitizen is encouraging businesses to use the site to seek out security researchers for jobs or particular projects

Google Docs adds a new features in it to make the document manage feel close to its rival Microsoft Office. Now recently Google Docs has added a new feature ‘Print Preview’ which acts exactly like Print Preview mode in the Microsoft Word. View and edit documents like you would on real paper with the new fixed width page view mode.

(Credit: CNET Networks)

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A compiled list of best apple iPhone applications available in the internet for free.

Productivity

43 Actions – Advanced to-do list and Getting Things Done (GTD) organizer for Apple’s mobile platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch. Quickly add new actions, organize in contexts and projects, set due dates; get your daily or weekly agenda by email; add new actions via Jott.com, Twitter.com or by email; mark active/next actions; check off and archive finished tasks; customize the color scheme; export a backup (in XML-format) for safekeeping.

Taskr – Dead simple task management. Easily manage your task list from virtually anywhere! An Offline notes/ to do list! Load the page on your iPhone once and you can use noter offline! …click here to read more →

Continuing the Object Oriented Programming series, after writing about Abstraction, it’s time to educate about Encapsulation.

Let’s first look at what is generally believed as Encapsulation? Ask your teacher, “What is Encapsulation?” You teacher would promptly say “Hiding data“. Try googling, you find just 10% of the sites will be giving you right information about Encapsulation where most of them tends to miss out the important glitch. When one of my friends was speaking about Encapsulation, he was right in quoting the proper definition i.e. “Hiding Information”, but his understanding was not correct. If you are one of them who doesn’t understand about Encapsulation, then this article is for you. …click here to read more →