http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/opml-support-for-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/opml-support-for-firefox/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 07:15:27 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4121 Today I read the article about the Firefox add-on Brief which is an RSS reader for Firefox making use of Firefox’s dynamic bookmarks. I have never used the dynamic bookmarks before, always an external application or web service that would display the RSS feeds that I have a subscription for. When thinking about it it did make sense to integrate the RSS feeds into Firefox directly which would make them independent of any web service. Netvibes, the service that I have been using for about a year, is having some technical difficulties lately and I have decided to give other integrated systems a try.

The first thing I did was to backup my opml information at Netvibes. These file contains information about all feeds that I’m subscribed to. The option was a bit hidden in Netvibes, you find it in the profile section under Feeds. Then I realized that Firefox had no option to import an opml file directly which meant I had to find an add-on that would import the opml file for me.

OPML Support is an add-on for Firefox that adds this functionality to the Bookmarks Manager. It provides an export and import option for opml files. This made it easy to transfer my RSS feeds from Netvibes into Firefox Live Bookmarks giving me the opportunity to finally test the RSS reader add-on Brief for Firefox.

Tags: firefox, firefox add-ons, live bookmarks, netvibes, opml, rss, rss feed

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/14/opml-support-for-firefox/feed/ 3 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/taskable-rss-feeds-for-your-system-tray/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/taskable-rss-feeds-for-your-system-tray/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:07:55 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/10/taskable-rss-feeds-for-your-system-tray/ Taskable is a great alternative for online or offline feedreaders, it is a RSS browser that places an icon in the windows system tray making it a very effective method of displaying those feeds. I really like the ease of use and space-saving nature of taskable, I mainly use it to display my most read feeds in the system tray and check on them periodically.

Adding feeds is really simple. You can either drag and drop feeds right from the internet or add feeds manually by supplying the RSS and Atom url or OPML file. I was not able to find out how to add submenus manually but this can be done by exporting your feeds into an OPML file and adding that file to Taskable. The structure will remain.

source: cybernetnews

Tags: atom, feed-reader, freeware, opml, rss, system-tray, taskable, Windows

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