RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of formats designed and used for delivering frequently updated content.

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How do I cache RSS feeds in order not to miss entries on client side?

I'm using a client side RSS reader and turn on my PC at night. But some RSS feeds publish only a limited number of entries and old entries are removed from the feed. So sometimes I can miss entries. ...
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RSS and atom feed notifier for Mac OS X

I am looking for a convenience feed-notifier for Mac OS X similar to e.g. Feed Notifier, which pops up notifications for new items in the feeds. Edit: Growl looks like the right direction, but I am ...
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How do I modify a RSS feed to combine items

I've got a feed with over 30 item per day, but all I'm really looking for is a daily (or semi-daily) digest. This way, I'll only get 1-2 items a day. The site itself doesn't offer such a feed. What's ...
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Subscribe to feed in Thunderbird from the command line?

From reading around the web, it looks like Firefox's "quick view" of an RSS feed sometimes lets you "Subscribe to this feed using" Thunderbird. For whatever reason, that's not an automatically-added ...
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Minimalistic flatfile-based “wall” PHP app with authentication and RSS?

I am looking for an open-source minimalistic "message board" PHP software. Not a forum, more something like one simple facebook wall. The only thing a user can do is post a new message. With RSS, and ...
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How do I estimate the number of RSS subscribers?

I'm running a website, and would like to get a better idea how many subscribers I have. I can check the number of subscribers on Google Reader for my two feeds (RSS and Atom). I also have access to my ...
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RSS Enclosures in Outlook 2007

What are RSS Enclosures in Outlook 2007? What does the "Automatically download Enclosures for this feed" checkbox do in the RSS Feed Options dialog?
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IE8 rss feeds import from OPML format

is it possible to import OPML format files from Google reader into IE8?
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uTorrent repeatedly downloads old files from the RSS feed

So I set up uTorrent to automatically download torrents from EZTV search-based RSS feeds. And it works splendidly. I just set feeds to download automatically, and didn't set up smart episode filters ...
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Subscribe to YouTube channel in iTunes

What is the best way to subscribe to a YouTube channel and have it show up in iTunes as a podcast? I want iTunes to automatically download the videos in MP4 format or download them in FLV and convert ...
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Trimming article length in Google Reader

I'm considering switching to Google Reader from Safari's RSS reader. One feature that I would absolutely miss from Safari is its Article Length slider it gives you for each feed, so you can choose to ...
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Visual Studio RSS Subscription not working

I'm trying to set a new RSS feed in Visual Studio. I had changed it from the default to the Silverlight blog and now I'm trying to change it to the Google Code blog. Only thing is that it wont load ...
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Are there any RSS-to-email gateways that provide for periodic emails less frequently than every day? [closed]

Once a week is ideally what I'm looking for (as opposed to something like this)
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RSS update checker, alternative to FileHippo?

I have a list of different applications that I want to be kept up-to-date with the latest version. e.g. Subversion, TortoiseSVN, Paint.NET, Notepad2, etc. Every now and then I check the website or ...
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How can I create my own private RSS feed of selected podcasts?

I would like to be able to browse the Internet and "drag" available MP3 files of various podcast episodes into my own private RSS feed. I would like to then subscribe to this RSS feed with iTunes. ...
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Making rss title/link link to description? [closed]

Is it possible to do this? Ie. instead of the link directing to the original story, instead displaying the description. How could I do this? Am new to alot of this, so any help is much appreciated. ...
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How can I merge several .opml files?

I've three different sets of blog lists on 3 different PC's. How can I merge them ?
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software that will read feeds aloud

I have asked this question before but it seems that you misunderstood it for an rss reader. What I want to know is the software that can read to me the contents of the rss feeds, so that I won't have ...
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How do I add a WebSVN RSS to feed to Outlook 2007?

I am unable to connect to an RSS feed in Outlook due to the following error: Outlook cannot process the RSS content from ...
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Is there a way to import an RSS feed into Excel?

I have a SharePoint site that has a list that I would like to get into Excel for status reporting. Can I do this via the RSS feed?
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Looking for a Linux desktop feed reader with google reader sync built in [closed]

Are any available? Most of the available feed readers are bordering on ancient, with only Liferea and RSS Owl really "contenders" that I know of, but neither of them have it.
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Why are RSS Feeds slow to update in Outlook?

I've had a miserable experience with RSS feeds in Outlook, especially with my feeds from the Trilogy sites. I just know these feeds should update at least every few minutes, yet Outlook often takes an ...
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Create a bookmarklet for Google Reader Lite

I'd like to create a bookmarklet that prepends http://www.google.com/reader/lite/feed/ to any RSS url. Bonus points if it will instead pull the RSS feed of the page you are looking at. I want to do ...
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who offers free rss feeds of the most recent usenet messages besides google?

Is there any site, besides groups.google, which offers a free rss feed of the most recent messages for any usenet newsgroup? I mean a service like the following: ...
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RSS reader/platform that is suitable for market watch? (collaboration-wise)

I need to find a RSS reader or platform where I can share an element to a particular teammate. I also need that everyone's sources on the team are made public to the team (to avoid sources being ...
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A small RSS application with predefined settings

We are working on a new website (WordPress), and we're going to publish news-articles there. We have our users in one domain, and now we want to have an RSS reader on all our clients which reads from ...
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RSS feed reader that supports filtering?

In the past I have been using Akregator and GoogleReader to read my RSS feeds. The latter is particularly interesting as I am not right to a single computer and that it supports social sharing. ...
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Set password for an RSS feed in Outlook 2010

I am subscribed to an RSS feed in Outlook that requires a username and password. It's been working fine on my old computer with Outlook 2007. Now I've installed Office 2010 on a new computer and ...
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How to delete all RSS feeds in IE at once?

I'm using Windows 7, IE8. Over the time, I've added many RSS feeds to IE. I now want to delete all of them at once and start over. Is there a quick and easy way to accomplish that? I hate having to ...
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How to increase number of RSS feeds in Firefox?

I added lots of RSS feeds into Firefox bookmarks.But some of the new feeds are not shown because of limitation.Is it possible to increase the number of viewed feeds? (for example for xxxxxx.com it ...
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How to receive feed updates by e-mail? [closed]

I want to receive all my Google Reader subscriptions updates in my GMail inbox. There is any way to do that?
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Get Outlook to Show New Message Icon for Subfolders [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to enable Email desktop alerts for inbox folders in outlook 2007? I use subfolders paired with rules to organise my Inbox, (for example, emails from SuperUser are ...
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What is the best tool for creating and managing RSS feeds? [closed]

My boss just asked me to maintain and create an RSS feed of hot news topics in our field for our site. Are there any easy way to use tools for managing an RSS feed, where I can easily go in and ...
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Which RSS Reader/Browser is in this screenshot?

Does anybody know which RSS Reader/Browser is shown in the following screenshot? It looks to maybe be a firefox add-on but maybe i'm wrong.
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rss reader to read posts sequentially and download the content of a blog on the HD? [closed]

All, I am looking for a solution to read a blog sequentially (starting from the oldest posts), and to be able to read it even if I am offline. This would include an option to download an entire blog ...
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How to reset Firefox' RSS feed handling

As a developer I want to view the raw RSS feeds from my application. But Firefox keeps taking me to a Google page and wants me to tell whether I would like to subscribe in Google Reader or Google IG ...
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Automate Generation of RSS Feed

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free website that will create an RSS feed for you on website that do not have RSS feed. Example of this is http://www.feedyes.com/ . But this is a paid service...
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Setting Google Reader as default RSS reader on Safari

Is it possible to set Google Reader as the default feed reader on Safari and/or Mac OS X so that when I open an RSS in Safari I'm redirected to Google Reader like it does in Firefox when you set it ...
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Get RSS feed from iTunes podcast links

I'm using Gnome's Rhythmbox to listen to Podcasts. Some Podcasts don't provide an rss feed for downloading the episodes but only a itms:// link for iTunes. Now I'd like to download them via a ...
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Is there a way to view all inactive subscriptions in Google Reader? [closed]

The "Trends" page in Google Reader has a section for subscription trends, where it will show the 40 least-recently-updated subscriptions. Is there a way to see the full list of inactive subscriptions, ...
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Automaticly backup image blog

I have a image blog at soup.io, similar to tumblr, where I post images I find on the net for my friends. But I also would like to have a local copy of all the images on my mac to use as wallpapers ...
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How to manipulate an RSS feed?

I have a personal RSS feed provided by GoogleReader and displaying all my shared items together with the notes I've added. I would like to massage this feed a little to do things like: * Splice it ...
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Are there any legal issues while extracting content from RSS feeds? [closed]

I would like to know whether these free SMS alert sites such as My Today SMS, Alertix pay for the sites such as religate, oneindia.in e.t.c, Or they just mention in their website that this service ...
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RSS Comment Feeds from SharePoint 2007 Blog

Is there any way to subscribe to RSS comment feeds from a SharePoint 2007 blog? Or to include comments in the standard RSS feed? Some easy way to be notified or new comments to a thread via RSS?
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Linux RSS Feed Notifier/Ticker [closed]

Looking for an app to popup notifications every time a new feed item is added. Clicking the notification should open in the default browser. Can't seem to find anything, seems like there has to be ...
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Merging multiple RSS feeds into one

I have a bunch of RSS feed URLs and I'd like to create a single RSS feed URL that would contain all of these feeds. Is there a website that does this? Preferably a simple one (not Yahoo! Pipes, ...
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Add to Bloglines from Chrome?

Is there an easy way to add an RSS feed in Chrome to your Bloglines account? There are add-ons for IE and Firefox that let you do this. Haven't seen anything for Chrome.
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How can I use pubsubhubbub to support a podcast?

Okay, I get the general idea of the distributed RSS model that pubsubhubbub uses, but I'm trying to think of a way to "support" a podcast with it. That is, I want to supplement the bandwidth of a ...
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Make Apple's Mail.app update all RSS feeds every minute

I'm using Apple's Mail (v4.1) on my iMac, and I'd like to make it update all my RSS feeds every minute instead of every 30 minutes. I've subscribed to feeds which change very frequently, and I want to ...
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How to backup my blog from Google Reader's data?

My blog is down and as a result I cannot backup my old posts. But I subscribe the RSS in my Google Reader, and I can access my old posts through Google Reader still. Is there any software or solution ...