Small Business Marketing, Start the Day with Tailored News Updates

If you run a small business or are engaged with freelancing activities, you’re always looking for ways to get more done with your very limited time.  Some things work out well, some not so much, but if your activities are focused, you can get a few things done at the same time, meaning that even [...]

Taking Control of Your Search

If you find yourself getting annoyed from too many of your search results being filled with ads, or the websites that do come up are little more than ads making up ~90% of the page, one can’t help but to start thinking that there has to be a better alternative.  It’s just not efficient, or [...]

Recent News Article Expands for Easier Viewing

Now when viewing your news feeds, you’ll notice the column width of the recent article has been increased a bit.   This was done to better accommodate some of the longer blog or article titles. The problem being that if an article was too long, it would continue to a second row, making the overall row [...]

Websites Layout Change, Created Date Included

The Websites application has received a couple small changes to help review a larger or more detailed list of websites.  This includes a wider column width for the name and description as well as displaying the date that the website was added. Here’s a screenshot of the new layout: and how you can benefit from: [...]

5 Advantages of Blogs for Learning Something New

Even though blogs may not have the attention as the latest social networking fad, they still should not be overlooked as a valuable resource whenever trying to learn something new. Whether for a hobby, vacation, research, or staying informed at work, here are five advantages blogs have over social networks. For Publishers As with most [...]

Share Your Favorite Websites with Others

Whenever you find a new website that you think has value or that there’s a good chance of a return visit, you’ll usually bookmark it in one of your personal bookmark tools.  This could be from your browser for personal backup or sharing the bookmark in a more public community such as different social bookmarking [...]

See All Your Websites in the All Folder

As you can usually find websites that specialize in just about anything, adding them to various folders and projects can become a common occurrence.  Adding some places of interest when planning a trip, customer or supplier websites for business activities, restaurant websites for going out and so on. While it’s nice to have the websites [...]

Customizing the Slideshow Views

One of the nice features of the slideshow feature is being able to launch it from whatever list view you’re currently looking at. Anytime you click on an application you’ll see the initial view, sorted alphabetically by the item (action, note, event, etc) name.  If you click the slideshow button, the slideshow will be shown [...]

See an Integrated View of All Recent News Updates

To help scan through any changes from your blogs, you can now see the most recent blog posting title along with the published date any time you click on the News tab. To visit and read the article, just click on the title of the posting and it will show up in a new browser [...]

News Reader Tweak, Descriptions Shown in List View

Now whenever you click on the News reader application tab, you can see any descriptions that have been added to the news feeds.  These are the descriptions of the RSS URLs, which the user may have added when they first set up the news item.  You can add or modify the description at any time [...]

Reduce Search Chaos by Creating Web Bookmarks

Life is short.   While the journey may be where it’s at, the journey of a typical search isn’t maybe one of your most favorite experiences.  Filled with ads on the right, above, below, with loads of spam, or maybe just say lesser quality, websites intermixed in the results that you’re seemingly trying in vain to [...]

Getting a Quick Preview of Your Application Items Before Deleting

Now whenever you’d like to remove an item from any of the applications, you’ll see a quick preview of the item before you confirm to actually delete. This is set up for when you highlight an item and click delete, the new window that appears to ask you to confirm now shows the application item [...]

Adding Comments to a News Source

The News reader application has a new feature allowing users to add comments to any of the news sources.  Helpful to add some feedback to news feeds that others have added to your network, such as “check out their recent posting on our product”, or “see this review of a location we were thinking of [...]

New Application Item Layout, Integrating Details and Comments

To make things a little more intuitive when viewing any application items, the layout has been tweaked from a top/bottom format to a left/right format.   See the below screenshot with the Note application. This helps to be able to both see the details of an application as well as view/add any comments, all in one [...]

Website Link Included with Email Notification

Now whenever you send an email notification of a website from your Odysen network, the link to the actual website is included in the email.   This makes it a little easier to both bookmark a website for later reference, as well as being able to efficiently share the website with others. Here is a screenshot [...]

Click My News Filter to View Your News Sources

With the My News button, you can personalize the news sources (or feeds) shown to be just the ones you’ve added, sort like your own personal newspaper.  Or, just click the All button to go back to viewing news sources added from others in your network. To view any news articles, just click the news [...]

Use My Websites to Quickly See Websites You’ve Added

Within the Website bookmarking application, you’ll now see a new feature or button called My Websites, allowing you to filter the websites displayed, showing only the ones that you yourself have entered. Just click the My Websites button to see the new view. This can be helpful when viewing a larger quantity of websites in [...]

Viewing News Articles in Slideshow Mode

Now when viewing your news feeds or sources, you can do so a little more efficiently by seeing them in slideshow mode.  This allows you to view all the news sources that you have listed in a folder, one after another, by simply clicking the Next button, as shown below. So if you’re in a [...]