On 11.06.09, In How To, by Matt Brian
Downloading television episodes via the internet is something that continues to grow and grow. TV networks had found their audiences are preferring to record their favourite programmes on their DVR’s and watch them back at more suitable times, this has seen some of the more internet savvy users take to harnessing the power of Bittorrent to grab the new episodes as soon as they become available.
When you want to download a TV episode, it’s as easy as visiting your favourite Bittorrent website, performing a search and then clicking download. This brings with it a little sense of repetition and it can be tiresome if you follow quite a few different television series and have to perform numerous searches to download each episode.
One way to automate the download process is to take advantage of RSS, many Bittorrent websites provide RSS feeds to allow syndication of their listings to different Bittorrent applications that support it. This article will show you how to add RSS feeds to uTorrent and configure it to download each television episode as soon as it’s available.
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If your like me you probably subscribe to far too many RSS feeds, don’t get me wrong I love RSS it’s the way I get most of my news. Recently I’ve reached my limit of what I can reasonably get through in any one day. I’d ideally subscribe to more feeds but I really don’t have the time to read them all. I’d rather not suffer the ‘unread item guilt’ or ’second inbox syndrome’ that you can sometimes get with unread feeds. This is where the RSS aggregator Fever from Shaun Inman can help.
If you own your own blog and publish regularly, you will probably be quite well acquainted with FeedBurner and it’s associated services. If you aren’t, Feedburner is a Google owned service that allows you to track and analyse your RSS subscribers, showing you how your visitors interact with your content.
When you sign up for a Feedburner URL, you are assigned with a very generic feed address resembling something like this: http://feedproxy.google.com/willineedit. You may want to use your own URL for purposes such as branding or even SEO. This article will show you how to set up your own Feedburner URL for use on your blog or website.
Just three days ago, we published an article on how Google had introduced social features to their online services. At the bottom of the article I mentioned how it was possible Google would push live new features without many people knowing it was coming, today they did exactly that.
Google Reader now has the option to share feed content via a number of different social networks. We will show you how to access this and have your feed reader setup to spam any number of different services.
On 04.14.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
One of my favourite pastimes is to read, whether it be fictional or factual, I feel there is no better way to imagine a story than picturing it in your own way. That said, these days I hardly have the time to read a book and when I do, I can only grab a few chapters before I’m either fighting sleep or needing to go somewhere or do something.
DailyLit is a website that tries to get you back in the habit of reading but does so in a way that is pretty novel. Books are offered via either email or RSS feed, in convenient small messages that take less than five minutes to read.
On 01.23.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
The web is all about syndication, information is passed from source to source without any due strain on the receiver. One of the most popular ways to syndicate content online is to use RSS, with Google Reader leading the way in the feed reader market.
SuggestRSS is a tool developed to scan your existing feeds and suggest new content you might be interested in. By uploading your OPML file, SuggestRSS will match your current feeds to other users of the service, outputting sites that people with similar interests have subscribed to before.
On 01.20.09, In Cool Websites, by Matt Brian
The emergence of blogging into mainstream media has brought with it ways of syndicating content. Really Simple Syndication or RSS, has allowed content viewers to subscribe to a websites content without them having to physically visit the site itself. This has in turn allowed content thieves to republish your content quite easily, sometimes without your knowledge.
Copygator is a service that scans your feeds and evaluates whether other websites are stealing your content without your consent. They do so by matching your data against the two million blog feeds they aggregate to determine if any two are “roughly, nearly or exactly alike”.
On 01.10.09, In How To, by Matt Brian
Feedburner were one of the first companies that delved heavily into RSS and the statistics they generate. By allowing blog owners to direct all their RSS feeds to one central account, the owners would be able to report on how their feeds are being used.
Feedburner were so good at what they did, they were acquired by Google. Recently, Google have enabled Feedburner users to migrate their accounts to tie in with their Google Accounts, meaning they were also able to integrate their feeds into the Adsense platform. With this change, some Wordpress plugins are unable to report on feeds that have been migrated across but with a small snippet of code I will show you how to embed your Feedburner feed count with having to use the eyesore that is the chicklet.
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