Tag: RSS

RSS Feeds Arrive in Bing News

This may have slipped under the radar for some but I reckon this is a fantastic update that will have me using Bing News far more often on my Microsoft Surface. It could also be a handy alternative for those facing the prospect of being orphaned by the shutdown of Google Reader. In the most …

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WP Super Cache and RSS

If you run your own blog and traffic starts to pick up a little bit then you may have been recommended to use something called WP Super Cache. I thought I might try it out to see if there was going to be much benefit for this blog given the increase in traffic it has …

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Earthquake Notifications on Your Mobile Phone

Here’s a tip for Australians out there after the 5.3 magnitude earthquake the struck Victoria yesterday. I use a service called “If This Then That” or Ifttt for short which is a great way of getting the output of an online service and piping it into something else that may not be natively supported by …

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Watch for New eBay Auctions Using RSS

eBay RSS Feed in Outlook 2010

RSS is a great tool to make sure you can keep on top of new events without having the continually poll a stack of websites in your browser. One such example might be if you are keeping your eyes peeled for some bargain auctions on eBay but would get pulled up for having eBay on …

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Improved Social Media Outlets for the Blog!

Things have been progressing rather well for the blog and is certainly keeping me busy in my spare time with an increase in gadgets gracing the household recently. I thought I’d share with you some of the improvements that have been made over the last week. Firstly, you will notice a new social media widget …

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RSS – How Does It Work?

Example RSS XML

Yesterday, I looked at how people may be using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) without knowing it as well as how it might help make your consumption of digital information more efficient. Despite its name, people may think that RSS could be rather complicated but with a little time and understanding I reckon most people could figure it out …

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RSS – Push vs Pull

Internet Explorer Address Bar

For those of you who don’t know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and a lot of you would be using it, perhaps unknowingly. How so? RSS is a major part of how iTunes works particularly when checking for new podcasts and the update features contained within other pieces of software use RSS to check …

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