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> <channel><title>gHacks Technology News &#124; Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials &#187; update notifications</title> <atom:link href="http://www.ghacks.net/tag/update-notifications/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.ghacks.net</link> <description>A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:52:46 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com"/><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://superfeedr.com/hubbub"/> <item><title>Introducing Appnews</title><link>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/introducing-appnews/</link> <comments>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/introducing-appnews/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Martin Brinkmann</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ghacks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Software]]></category> <category><![CDATA[appnews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[software updates]]></category> <category><![CDATA[update notifications]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/introducing-appnews/</guid> <description><![CDATA[Appnews is a new software update notification service that provides software updates via rss, twitter or email. It is the brainchild of long time Ghacks reader Rarst and combines notifications about software updates with links to reviews of those software programs on the websites Freeware Genius, Ghacks and Rarst. Every new entry consists of the [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/appnews125.png" alt="appnews125" title="appnews125" width="125" height="125" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12420" />Appnews is a new software update notification service that provides software updates via rss, twitter or email. It is the brainchild of long time Ghacks reader <a
href="http://www.rarst.net/">Rarst</a> and combines notifications about software updates with links to reviews of those software programs on the websites <a
href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/">Freeware Genius</a>, <a
href="http://www.ghacks.net/">Ghacks</a> and <a
href="http://www.rarst.net/">Rarst</a>. Every new entry consists of the name of the application, the new version that was released, links to at least one of the source websites that contains reviews of the software, direct links to the download pages, mailto friends and twitter possibilities plus the usual social media links to bookmark or tag the website.</p><p><span
id="more-12416"></span>Rarst did all the work on the project with me and Samer doing a little bit of beta testing. It&#8217;s his project that we fully support. You can take a look a the <a
href="http://appnews.net/">appnews</a> website to see how it looks and subscribe to the various update notification options.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/appnews_homepage-500x392.jpg" alt="appnews homepage" title="appnews homepage" width="500" height="392" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12415" /></p><p>Rarst made an announcement <a
href="http://www.rarst.net/web/appnews/">post</a> where he is going into a little bit more detail on the technicalities. The service is basically a mashup of Rss, Dropbox, FeedBurner and SimplePie.</p><p><img
src="http://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/appnews_tech-500x462.png" alt="appnews tech" title="appnews tech" width="500" height="462" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-12414" /></p><p>Here are the direct access links:</p><p><strong>Home:</strong> <a
href="http://appnews.net/">http://appnews.net/</a><br
/> <strong>Feed:</strong> <a
href="http://feeds.appnews.net/appnews">http://feeds.appnews.net/appnews</a><br
/> <strong>Email subscription:</strong> <a
href="http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=appnews&#038;loc=en_US">http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=appnews&#038;loc=en_US</a><br
/> <strong>Twitter:</strong> <a
href="http://twitter.com/appnews">http://twitter.com/appnews</a><br
/> <strong>Search engine:</strong> <a
href="http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=014146561317267595789:1f-ivlvlh7y">http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=014146561317267595789:1f-ivlvlh7y</a></p><p>Feel free to leave comments here or at Rarst&#8217;s blog. Suspect that Samer will introduce the service on his blog as well soon. We would also like it very much if you would blog about it, send it to your friends, comment about it on other sites or add it to social media sites that you are a member of. We think that this service is something special. And there is of course growth potential to add additional review sites to the mix.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/27/introducing-appnews/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>22</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
