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My question is, "What's RSS?", and why do some people think its good / special / the best thing since sliced bread? :wound:
Again, hope y'alll forgive my "ka-bundokan"... :blush:
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- 10-20-2004, 09:13 PM #1Mac Freak
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RSS? What\'s that? Ummm, Retro Soul Station?
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- 10-20-2004, 09:29 PM #2Apple Genius
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referring to this?Originally posted by wari_aktiv
Forgive my ignorance, but I just had some drinks with a couple of friends of mine who happen to be website developers, and they kept on talking amongst themselves about "RSS"...
My question is, "What's RSS?", and why do some people think its good / special / the best thing since sliced bread? :wound:
Again, hope y'alll forgive my "ka-bundokan"... :blush:
- 10-20-2004, 09:29 PM #3Mac Fanatic
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RSS what is? Read more about it here.RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way.
RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.
- 10-20-2004, 10:14 PM #4Mac Addict
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Hi wari_aktiv!
Check out NewsFire, a very easy RSS app to use.
- 10-20-2004, 10:47 PM #5Mac Freak
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Oh, I kinda get it... so its like a constantly updating news feed huh?
Interesting... Thanks guys. :beer:
@Arel: Am downloading Newsfire right now... :P Sana it works with Fark.
Note to self: "...must...keep...track...of...the...not-so-funny...news...too..." :lol:
- 10-20-2004, 11:27 PM #6Mac Fanatic
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I have both Newsfire and Pulpfiction Lite installed.
Pulpfiction has been my favorite for the past few weeks.
- 10-20-2004, 11:34 PM #7Mac Freak
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:roll: ey this is cool the links to the RSS apps
- 10-21-2004, 04:01 AM #8Mac Lover
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RSS stands for Really Simple Sydication. No, really.
- 10-22-2004, 10:43 AM #9Mac Lover
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hi people. excuse my ignorance but...
can you add or customize your feeds in Newsfire for example? does it work like Sherlock where you can add and take out channels?
TIA
- 10-22-2004, 03:31 PM #10Mac Addict
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Hi John!
Yes, you can customize the NewsFire feeds. Just finished adding the RSS feeds of the different Mac-related sites.
Originally posted by johnamon
hi people. excuse my ignorance but...
can you add or customize your feeds in Newsfire for example? does it work like Sherlock where you can add and take out channels?
TIA
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