Hintlink - RSS Newsfeed

RSS News Feeds

Getting Started - some introductory reading

RSS explained for “the common man” (BBC link)
All you ever wanted to know about RSS (Harvard)

The Client side – for the end user:

Programs	Comments	Other
Abilon	Excellent RSS reader. Standalone. Does authenticated feeds.	Requires no other code installs. RECOMMENDED. ***
Snarfer	Standalone. Does authenticated feeds. Update rate limiting.	Requires no other code installs.
Feedreader	Standalone. Does authenticated feeds. Layout limiting.	Requires no other code installs.
Greatnews	Standalone. Does authenticated feeds. Layout limiting.	Requires no other code installs.
Blognavigator	Standalone. Doesn't do authenticated feeds.	Requires no other code installs.
Awasu	Free version doesn't do authenticated feeds.	Requires no other code installs.
RssReader		Requires .NET.

*** When you download from here, don't go to the Provider's page, just hit download.

Whichever you choose, download it to an area such as C:\downloads\news\rss on your local hard drive. Then open Windows Explorer and run it and install it by double clicking the program. Most readers come with some pre-installed news feeds, but you may want to find others at such sites as http://backend.userland.com/2003/06/24 and http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss

Once you have a reader running select New and paste into the URL box the RSS page of your choice (e.g. you can copy and paste the Hintlink address http://hintlink.com/hintlink_rss.xml ) into this box. As new news arrives from each source, you’ll get a little pop-up box in the bottom right hand side of your screen.

In FireFox 2, the browser will ask you if you want to use it as a Live Bookmark. Don't choose this. Copy and paste the address into your RSS feedreader (most Readers will even auto-paste this into a "New Feed" option).

NOTE: Hintlink has about a dozen RSS feeds. The above one is our company announcement page. Others are in our Calendar page and FOC area (requires login [which means it's an "authenticated feed"]).

FOR WEBMASTERS and news providers - making your RSS Newsfeed to feed to your users:

Recommended: ListGarden . Runs as an exe file, which then opens in your browser. Fast, efficient, works, free. Limited in output options, though (no image file, for example).

Also: RSSBuilder. Appears to work well.

The RSS authoring Extension for Firefox is, so far, awful; crashes and fails all of our compatibility tests.

For our own feeds, we use a custom auto-generation method (written in-house) which comes from an Access database.

Some recommended RSS news feeds: (there are tens of thousands of RSS newsfeeds)

Feed Source	Referring Page	Feed
ARRL Amateur Radio News	http://www.arrl.org/	http://www.arrl.org/arrl.rss
BBC News \| Economy \| World Edition	http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/economy/default.stm	http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_world_edition/business/economy/rss.xml
BBC News \| World \| UK Edition	http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/default.stm	http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk//rss/newsonline_uk_edition/world/rss.xml
Broadband Wireless Exchange 802.16	http://www.bbwexchange.com/pubs/106.rss	http://www.bbwexchange.com/pubs/106.rss?pACTION=XML
Download.com 25 Newest Windows	http://www.download.com/	http://export.cnet.com/export/download/dl-new25-windows.xml
Download.com Most Popular Windows	http://www.download.com/	http://www.download.com/3410-2001-0-10.xml
Download.com Top Rated Windows	http://www.download.com/	http://www.download.com/3409-2001-0-10.xml
eWEEK Technology News	http://www.eweek.com	http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/tech.xml
Food and Drug Administration	http://www.fda.gov	http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/news/rssPress.xml
Guardian Unlimited	http://www.guardian.co.uk/0,,603247,00.html?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=1	http://www.guardian.co.uk/rssfeed/0,,1,00.xml
Lockergnome Nexus	http://www.lockergnome.com	http://feed.lockergnome.com/nexus/all
MajorGeeks.com	http://www.majorgeeks.com/index.php	http://www.majorgeeks.com/backend.php
Microsoft Download Center	http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/	http://www.thundermain.com/rss/
Moreover Technologies - 3G and GPRS news	http://www.moreover.com/rss	http://p.moreover.com/cgi-local/page?o=rss&c=3G%20and%20GPRS%20news
mozillaZine.org	http://www.mozillazine.org/	http://www.mozillazine.org/atom.xml
National Hurricane Center (Atlantic)	http://www.nhc.noaa.gov	http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index-at.xml
NetStumbler.com	http://www.netstumbler.com/	http://www.netstumbler.com/feeds/
PC World: Latest Technology News	http://www.pcworld.com	http://rss.pcworld.com/rss/latestnews.rss
SANS Internet Storm Center	http://isc.sans.org	http://isc1.sans.org/rssfeed.xml
Hintlink	http://www.hintlink.com	http://hintlink.com/hintlink_rss.xml
Slashdot	http://slashdot.org/	http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
SnapFiles latest freeware additions and updates	http://www.snapfiles.com/	http://www.snapfiles.com/feeds/freeware.xml
SofoTex - latest freeware downloads	http://www.sofotex.com	http://www.sofotex.com/download/xml/freeware.xml
The Register	http://www.theregister.co.uk/	http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.rss
VersionTracker: Windows	http://www.versiontracker.com/	http://newsfeed.versiontracker.com/f/versiontracker_windows910
Wi-Fi Hotspots and WiMAX Technology	http://www.bbwexchange.com	http://www.bbwexchange.com/pubs/119.rss?pACTION=XML
Wi-Fi Networking News	http://wifinetnews.com/	http://wifinetnews.com/index.rdf
Wired News: Top Stories	http://www.wired.com/	http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf

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