Robert Glen Fogarty

The great thing about Adobe Photoshop is that it’s useful for anything from the simplest projects to the most complex. It’s possible to use its surface features for years without knowing a darned thing about its deeper functions, and that’s fine - they’ll be there when you need ‘em. Here’s a site that helps you [...]

“Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce the launch of its newest collection of RSS newsfeeds that delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists’ desktops. All Nature-branded journals in the life sciences now have associated RSS newsfeeds with rich metadata, while other Nature-branded and NPG titles are slated [...]

Ever feel like you just don’t have the time to read, anymore? And isn’t the desire to recapture some of that time one of the reasons you find RSS so helpful? Like chocolate and peanut butter, perhaps literature and RSS were meant to commingle as two great tastes that taste great together! Maybe you never [...]

Want to get a heaping helping of new music samples every single day (with relevant - or sometimes irrelevant commentary usually provided)? Check out the MP3Blogs Aggregator feed here, or on the Web here.

Sure, we all hate junk e-mail. But here’s the feed that dares to make spamonade out of spam. Simply put, it’s a collection of Steven Frank’s “poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines!” Also available via the Web (if you’re into that sort of thing).

RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and colleagues - utilizing the latest in RSS technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use, but it is also easy to administer, and setup is a snap. RSSCalendar is well-suited for [...]

National Public Radio’s on the ball! Top Stories, U.S. News, World News, Business News, Health and Science News, and local NPR member stations are now all covered via RSS!

The Roman Relocation Program’s poster fellow Jason Cook has written up quite a nice tutorial over at the once-defunct, now resurrected (hallelujah!) and much-loved Webmonkey called RSS and Atom: What Next?

Steven M. Cohen writes:
“The E-mail Run Aggregator (ERA) works like listserv subscriptions, just with RSS Feeds. Users type in a bunch of command lines (simple enough) into an e-mail and the aggregator will send an e-mail when the feed has been updated. The user gets a choice as to how often the e-mails will be [...]

John Dowdell writes:

“This emphasis on XML site changes for a notification service is very different from the ‘unformatted fulltext for offline reading’ definition that other people use for RSS. That little three-letter label seems too sexy and attractive, people are using it for different types of user needs…?”

Now you can access Alexa’s Hot Search Terms, Movers and Shakers, or Top Sites with RSS.

There was a time when I used to spend a few minutes a day looking over a handful of Web pages for news and information. Then RSS came upon the scene. Suddenly I could get my information quicker and easier. No longer forced to suffer through slow loading Web pages, I could just click on [...]

Dan Fernandez writes:

One of my favorite features of C# Express is the built-in RSS Screensaver Starter Kit. If you’ve never built a screensaver before, or if you have never written code that uses RSS, then you’ll find the RSS Screen saver a great way to start programming.
In a nutshell, the RSS Screen saver is [...]

Spyware/Adware-free Newsplorer is a skinnable newsreader application that sits on your desktop and “supports all major news syndication formats.” Ah, and the most splendid part of all? It’s free!

FeedCreator.class.php (the artist formerly known, amazingly enough, as RSSCreator.class.php) provides a way to create RSS feeds from within PHP using easy classes.

As Glen writes in his Exchange Dev Blog:

I’ve gone a bit RSS mad of late. For today’s edition I created an Event Sink for public folders so when a new mail or post arrives into that folder it will fire a script that updates a feed with the last 7 days of posts. I guess [...]

Due to its condensed nature, RSS is an easy fit for mobile devices (Much more so than current Web formatting). Philip at Daily Wireless preaches the gospel of RSS to the mobile masses and shows us pictures of what RSS looks like on a variety of portable gadgets - even his iPod!
Read it here.

RSS Libraries - PythonInfo Wiki

Steven M. Cohen writes: “The helpful Pete Weiss e-mailed me this morning with news that Physics Web has released a variety of RSS Feeds (which he found cited in Open Access News). As I was poking around to see if I had posted this in the past (which I didn’t), I came across more [...]

Liferea is a simple FeedReader clone for Unix distributions with GNOME2. It is a news aggregator for RSS/RDF feeds that also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS or OPML directories.
I think it sounds like a single malt scotch. Or something.