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Search Results to RSS Feeds

Sarah Perez article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too.
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This is one of those things that I’m embarrassed to say that I honestly just discovered. I guess I hadn’t really needed to turn a search result into an RSS feed until recently, but when I did, I was actually stumped for a bit as to the best way to go about doing so. I mean, I’m familiar with “Alerts,” but a feed? Hmmm…  Well, as it turns out, you can do this with Live Search! According to this blog post from 2005, (yeah 2005…I told you this was embarrassing) you can turn any web search into a feed. I really didn’t know this! The trick is to do a search, then append the text ‘&format=rss’ to the URL. Subscribe. I’m only admitting my ignorance here in case someone else, like me, finds this useful.

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RSS Screensaver

Sarah Perez article, brought to you using rss feeds. I found it informative and I think you will too.
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Rsssaver is a RSS screen saver for Windows PCs. Currently in open beta, rsssaver previews RSS feeds from the net and displays them on your screen when your computer’s screen saver kicks in. The screen saver shows the channel, title, description, and publish date from any valid RSS URL. Using the OpenGL text rendering engine, the fonts are smooth scrolling and clean. The free application supports Windows 2000, XP, and, as of August, it was “sort of” working in Vista. It looks like the developer hit a snag when trying to code for Vista. Maybe someone can help him out? This would be a killer download for Vista users like myself. The download is available here.

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