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daveake 08:09 pm UTC 01/10/08 |
| In reply to: | re: Rockman RSS Feed - Pudding 06:43 pm UTC 01/10/08 |
| That's about it. The reader I've been using just pops up a little window in the corner of the screen, but I'm sure you can find one that will give you as many dongs as you can take ... It's not immediate. There can be up to 10 minutes before my program spots the new message (I can make that quicker of course), plus the RSS reader will only check every few minutes. Still, if someone worries about how quickly they can see new messages, they don't need a faster system but they do need a life :-). Dave > Being clueless about all this, does this mean that > whenever someone makes a new post on Rockman you'll get an > alert like a ding or a dong telling you? > > > > Those of you who keep up with news, blogs etc. using RSS > > feeds can now keep up with Rockman in the same way. I've > > created an RSS feed that you can use in your favourite RSS > > reader. > > > > Now, about 95% of you are probably asking "WTF is an RSS > > Reader?". Well, if you have several sites that you check > > often, then rather than keep opening those sites up in > > your broswer and scanning down them for new things, you > > can use an RSS Reader that does all the work for you. > > Most RSS readers look like email programs, and new content > > on a web site appears like a new email would. You can > > sort posts by title or date (I may add other things soon), > > read messages and reply to them, all within the RSS > > reader. > > > > The reader checks each RSS-compatible site that you tell > > it about, every 15 minutes say, and let you know when > > there's something new. Many browsers and email programs > > now include this ability (but often not very well), or you > > can get a free standalone reader like "SharpReader". > > > > Rockman doesn't itself provide an RSS feed, so I've > > written a small program wot does. You can subscribe to it > > by adding this URL to your RSS reader: > > > > http://www.vaultsofheaven.com/rockman.xml > > > > It's currently updated automagically every 10 minutes. > > > > Here's a screenshot to give you an idea of what an RSS > > reader is like: > > > > > > target="_blank"> > > border="0" alt="Photobucket"> > > > > Dave | |
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