RSS readers. RSS Readers RSS and Atom files provide news updates from a website in a simple form for your computer. You read these files in a program called an aggregator, which collects news from various websites and provides it to you in a simple form. But what aggregator to use? Here are some choices: Top Picks Mac OS X: NetNewsWire This elegant Mac-like aggregator is easy to use and powerful. Windows: SharpReader Simple, but gets the job done.
Linux: Liferea A simple Gtk newsreader. Runners-Up AmphetaDesk A news aggregator you access through a web browser. FeedDemon A more complicated aggregator for Windows. FeedReader Like SharpReader, but sporadically updated. News Is Free Lets you create your own customized news page with feeds from the sites you're interested in. How Stuff Works. What are these RSS files? RSS Articles and Tutorials. RSS Links and Resources Defined in XML, the Rich Site Summary (RSS) format (aka "Really Simple Syndication"), previously known as the RDF Site Summary, has quietly become a dominant format for distributing news headlines on the Web. WebRef maintains its own RSS feeds, including our our front page, and JavaScript Tip of the Day. Here are some top resources for more info on RSS.
WebReference Articles Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL RSS has become the standard technology for syndicating information to large audiences. How to Use RSS Replay in Dreamweaver Layouts RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is about sharing content with new audiences. The Anatomy of an RSS Feed RSS has become the standard data format for communicating sydicated information to a large audience. How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. Review: Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom Review: FeedForAll 1.0 The Evolution of RSS. RSS _ Bittorrent. Over the last couple week's TiVo let slip that they're going to start adding banner ads when we try to fast-forward commercials (and to make things even more annoying, Congress is considering a bill that might make fast-forwarding through the commercials on DVDs illegal).
So we've pretty much decided we're not going to use a TiVo anymore and that instead we'll go with other solutions (for now) like a Media Center PC, as well as rolling some of our own ways to download TV shows. For this week's How-To we're going to show you how you can use RSS and BitTorrent to find and download your favorite shows, automatically, using free software. There are a lot of ways to do this, we cover one example that worked well for us, and there are a couple great tutorials we spotted that are basically the same but offer other ways of downloading, other plugins and more information.
You can check them out here and here. RSS and BitTorrent The future of TV? (Mr. Download and install Azureus from here. What is RSS.