A well-conceived short video (3.5min) that emphasises the time-saving nature of RSS and shows beginners how to make use of it.
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Vienna is an open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X. I prefer it to NewsFire and put it almost on par with NetNewsWire, neither of which are free. It has the same three-paned layout option as the latter for in-reader browsing which I favour. Highly recommended.
If you're abroad and want to keep a finger on the pulse of life at home, what are your options? You might sign up for satellite TV, buy an over-priced newspaper, or read online. But sound and moving pictures somehow make you feel more "connected". Streaming audiovisual content may be the answer.
Continue reading 'Getting local news while abroad'
As previously noted, the currently available RSS module (1.0.6) is incompatible with the Siriux theme for Gallery (2.1.2). I wanted to be able to offer a feed (photocast) for an album in my own gallery, but finding a hack for the code was only half of the problem. For some reason defining a feed in Gallery is very non-intuitive. Here's how it's done, step-by-step.
Continue reading 'Fixing feeds for the Siriux Gallery theme'
Rob over at Electrolund.com installed the Sage plugin for Firefox, featuring auto-discovery of all feeds associated with a given page. In so doing he discovered that bioneural.net offered a handful of feeds all called "bioneural.net". Not at all helpful! Were they duplicates? Were they different feed formats (flavours of RSS or Atom)? If they were unique, how could you tell them apart without studying the feed content? Valid questions I wanted to find answers for. I came up with a partial solution for more meaningful titles to help distinguish one feed from another.
Continue reading 'Meaningful titles for WordPress feeds'
This is not as easy as it sounds, especially given that WordPress offers a variety of feed formats and the lead developer attests to its flexibility. After much frustration, a bit of help here and there, and a large dollop of trial-and-error, I finally figured out how to serve both a summary and a full-text feed, and to exclude a single category from one of them.
Continue reading 'Customizing feeds in WordPress 2.x'
