Learn how to customize your .Text Blog by painting boxes around the posts, improving comment layout and adding search box and logo image.

[ Via Josh Ledgard Blog ]

This service gives you the ability to sign up for free alerts when your blog is updated. It uses the Microsoft Alerts service, which lets you receive messages through your MSN Messenger, e-mail, or your mobile device. MessageCast offers this for free for any blog.

[Via ISerializable]

Step-by-step instructions:

• run your web or news search on the MSN Search Beta
• add the text ‘&format=rss’ to the url.
• copy the full url into your RSS Reader.

Here is a sample web search url:
http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=tsunami+relief&format=rss

Here is a sample news search url:
http://beta.search.msn.com/news/results.aspx?q=tsunami+relief&format=rss

[Via msnsearch's WebLog ]