There are all kinds of websites available for finding great deals, but a lot of times it takes some extra work to find the items that you're looking for. With the holiday season coming up I'm sure you'll be trying to hunt down all kinds of stuff for friends and family, but you don't have to go out of your way to save some money.

Have a hard time keeping up with your favorite RSS feeds? Feed Crier is here to help you. It's a free service that requires no registration, but with it you can get notified of new items in some of your favorite RSS feeds.

Back in March we introduced you to a service called Feedity which creates a feed for sites without syndication. As I had mentioned at the time, there's nothing more frustrating than coming across a site that I'd like to keep tabs on that doesn't have any syndication available. This is why Feedity and other services similar to it like Drapper are so helpful.

One thing that the Firefox developers have stayed clear of thus far is implementing a full RSS feed reader into the browser. Firefox does have a built in system called Live Bookmarks that are supposed to compensate for needing a feed reader in the browser, but as many of you know it falls short.

One of the most common things that I've been getting asked is how people can stay up-to-date on the latest software. I got really excited about the free UpdateStar application which I mentioned last week, but it still didn't have information on a lot of the software that I used.

I don't know about you but there is a whole world of news out there that I don't read, and it's partly because of the language barrier. Services like Google Translate and BabelFish have tried to break down that barrier one step at a time, and while they do offer sitewide translations there is still no good alternative to translate RSS feeds.

After about a month in progress, we have finally launched a Learn Firefox redesign! Our focus was to bring a graphical appeal to the site since it is a "visual guide to the Firefox web browser," and we believe that we've successfully done that.

We weren't exactly sure whether the next milestone in the Firefox 3 pre-release lifecycle was going to be an Alpha or a Beta, but we know now.

One eagle-eyed member of the Google Blogoscoped forum noticed that there was a confidential video posted on Google Video today. The intended purpose of the video was for new Google employees (a.k.a. Nooglers), but it has since been removed. Luckily Google Operating System was on top of things and took down some of the Google Reader stats.

I've come across a lot of great feed readers before, but I don't believe any of them match up to a new one that I was introduced to by Pieter in the CyberNet Forum. It's called Newzie (Windows-only), and it has a strong focus on making feed reading as easy as possible.