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RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video in a standardized format. Enough with the boring and same old RSS icons in your blog. Here is a large list of sites which offer Free RSS Icons for your blog. I’m sure you will find them useful.

43 Awesome Free RSS Icons for Your Blog

1) - RSS Feed Icon Photoshop Shapes

2) - RSS Buttons by gojol23

3) - RSS 2008 by Vathanx

4) - RSS Icon by JackieW

5) - Hat RSS Icon by LoafNinja

6) - Rss Icons Orb v2 by nam0

7) - Rss icons by jinsona

- Rss icon by Krb

9) - 16 RSS round texture buttons by gojol23

10) - RSS Icons by lansworxph

11) - RSS Icons by mata-mhari

12) - RSS or Water Fountain Drain? by SheilaDee

13) - 345 Free RSS Icons by Studiom6

14) - rss icons by billgoldbergmania

15) - Rss 2 by flugv1

16) - I support RSS - black by Cavin

17) - RSS Feed Icons for Websites by SiddharthMaheshwari

18) - My RSS icon by SETIcruncherXy

19) - RSS Feeds Icons - Bottle Caps by neoworxspace

20) - RSS ICON by blogeeks

21) - RSS Feed Icons by mata-mhari

22) - RSS Feeds Icons - Paper by neoworxspace

23) - ACID RSS by Cavin

24) - Toast Feed Icon by zyenth

25) - Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS/Feed Icons

26) - 3 Vector Halloween RSS Icons

27) - 15 Free RSS Icons by Matthew Inman

28) - RSS Icons by serega

29) - Buttons for RSS

30) - Beer Fest RSS

31) - Cocktail Party RSS

32) - Huge collection of feed icons

33) - Unique RSS Icons & Buttons

34) - Sexiest RSS Icon

35) - UWESU Forum RSS Feed

36) - RSS Feed Cube Icon

37) - World’s Biggest RSS Icon

38) - Alien RSS

39) - Free Glass Style RSS

40) - Smashy The Alien Icon Set

41) - Design Freak

42) - RSS heart PNG Icons

43) - RSS Cancy

Shareaholic allows you to quickly share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a very wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites - such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Google Reader, MySpace, and StumbleUpon, without cluttering up your browser.

Shareaholic currently supports posting to: digg, delicious, facebook, foxiewire, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader, healthranker, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, simpy, soup.io, stumbleupon, streakr, truemors, tumblr, twine, twitter, yahoo! buzz, ycombinator, bzzster, etc.

Shareaholic also lets you quickly evaluate web page popularity by telling you the number of times the web page you’re on has been dugg or saved to del.icio.us.

It will show you if the item is dugg, how many diggs, and number of comments, clicking on it will either submit a new item (if it is new) or bring you to the page that already exists.

Works with both Windows and Mac.

Download

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5457

Skype buttons can be used on your website, blog or even in your email signature to let other people contact you easily. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.

Intructions

Step 1: Login to Blogger dashboard then goto ‘Layout‘ –> ‘Edit HTML‘ –> ‘Page Elements‘ and Add a Gadget

Step 2: Add HTML/JavaScript

Step 3: Copy all the codes provided below and change YOUR SKYPE NAME highlighted in red to your Skype Name.

Step 4: After you add your Skype name, paste all codes in HTML/JavaScript and Save

Skype buttons

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_green_white_153x63.png" style="border: none;" width="153" height="63" alt="Skype Me™!" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/call_blue_white_124x52.png" style="border: none;" width="124" height="52" alt="Skype Me™!" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype button code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?add"><img src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/buttons/add_green_white_195x63.png" style="border: none;" width="195" height="63" alt="Add me to Skype" /></a><!-- Skype button code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

Skype buttons with Status

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/balloon/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="150" height="60" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/bigclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="182" height="44" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/smallclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="114" height="20" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

<!-- Skype buttons code start --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com --><script type="text/javascript" src="http://download.skype.com/share/skypebuttons/js/skypeCheck.js"></script><a href="skype:YOUR SKYPE NAME?call"><img src="http://mystatus.skype.com/smallclassic/YOUR SKYPE NAME" style="border: none;" width="114" height="20" alt="My status" /></a><!-- Skype buttons code end --><!-- Credits to http://djyano.blogspot.com -->

Enjoy your new button.

by Stan Schroeder

Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you’d like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We’ve assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don’t overdo it!

MyBlogLog’s Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they’re also members of MyBlogLog.

Mashable - get the latest social networking news from this very site.

Flickr Flash Photo Stream Badge - display images from your Flickr profile with a handy Flash photo stream.

Preview Anywhere - see a live preview of outgoing links in a small popup which activates on mouseover. Some find this annoying, while others might find it useful.

Twitter Badge - if your life is so interesting that everyone must know what you’re up to all the time, then a Twitter badge is the ideal counterpart to your blog. It’ll proudly displays your recent tweets.

Digg News - display the latest Digg links on your blog. Themeable and fully customizable.

FEEDJIT - real time traffic data directly in your blog’s sidebar.

LineBuzz - inline comments for your blog. Very handy for blogs with frequent lively discussions.

Flixn - display a stream directly from your webcam, so your blog visitors can always see what you’re up to.

3Jam - lets your visitors send messages to your mobile phone, without them knowing your phone number.

Jaxtr - with Jaxtr, your visitors can actually call you to your mobile phone; again, your number stays private.

LinkedInABox - show off your LinkedIn profile. Perfect for personal blogs.

Box Widget - enable visitors to use box.net’s online storage directly on your web site.

Price of gas - displaying gas prices gas-prices-rise-to-new-national-record Apr-7-2008 on your blog might seem unnecessary to some, but it’s cool if you have a traffic/travel related blog.

iBegin Weather Widget - Display weather information in your sidebar. Just like with Price of Gas, works great with travel-related blogs.

ClockLink - display time in various time zones with these nifty Flash clocks.

Film Loops - display the latest loops from your FilmLoops account.

Daily Painters - display paintings from famous painters on your blog.

WhoLinked - show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site. Works with all major blog platforms.

Criteo AutoRoll - displays links to blogs similar to your blog.

Bitty Browser - embed a cute, fully functional mini web browser to your blog.

Leafletter - create a mini website and embed it into your blog.

WikiSeek - search Wikipedia with this simple widget.

FeedCount - show off the number of visitors to your blog with this handy little button.

Technorati Link Count - display the number of links your website has from one of the biggest blog authorities - Technorati.

MyPageRank - another good way to show how “big” your blog is is to show off your Google PageRank.

CheckPageRank - in addition to showing your PageRank, this widget also shows your Alexa ranking.

BlinkxIt - embed a link to related videos directly into your website.

Skype button - display your Skype online/offline status on your blog.

RockYou Horoscope - not something I would personally use, but some people are into horoscope. Hell, most people are into horoscope. Anyway, this widget shows horoscope (doh!) and does it in a nicely designed colorful box.

del.icio.us Tagometer - display how many times have del.icio.us users saved your page.

del.icio.us Linkrolls - this badge shows your latest bookmarks from del.icio.us.

Timelines - need to create a timeline? Seek no further. This widget makes it really easy.

PollDaddy - PollDaddy lets you create beautiful polls in no time, and display them at your blog.

Vizu - another poll-making widget, compatible with all major blog platforms.

AnswerTips - display definitions from Answers.com for various terms on your blog. The definitions are shown in bubbles which are activated on doubleclick.

AnswerBoxes - give your visitors a chance to enter a term themselves, and get a definition from Answers.com

Now Playing - if you got to share your current playlist contents with the world, Sigamp will do the trick. Works with most popular music players, including Foobar, Winamp, iTunes itunes-overtakes-wal-mart-in-music-sales Apr-4-2008 and others.

BuzzBoost - display headlines from your RSS feed on any website.

LibraryThing - show off the latest books you’ve been reading.

Plaxo Address Book - let your most faithful visitors access their address books direclty from your site.

AuctionAds - a widget that displays auctioned items on eBay, and gives you a percentage of the price paid when sometimes buys an item.

aStore - similar to AuctionAds, only for Amazon. Create a mini-store on your site and receive profit when someone buys an item through your store.

Plazes - show your current location on a Plazes map.

Stockalicious - track your portfolio with this widget, and share it with others. Let everyone know how much money you’ve lost.

Yahoo! For Good - create a charity badge and ask for donations for a worthy cause.

Giftspace - your friends never know what to buy you for birthday? Let them know what you really want with this nifty widget.

MixMap - see where are the visitors to your MySpace profile from on a map.

Google Map Widget - display a searchable Google Map on your website.

Google Video Search - add a video search form and selected videos to your web site.

Odeo player - display an Odeo player for and podcast right there in your sidebar.

http://mashable.com