Very cool lite browsing

[bilu]

Ever heard of RSS news feeds? Some readers even do HTML parsing! ;)

Take a look at this:
http://yole.ru/projects/syndirella/

This was the coolest I've found, although it need .NET framework.
But like a lot of other cool stuff (DVX for example) it worths it :)

Parsing details for Doom9 news

Description starts with: <td valign=top>
and ends with: </tr>

Date starts with: <td valign=top align=center>
and ends with: </td>

Date format: M'/'d


Parsing details for Doom9 forums
(this way you can check if there are new threads)

Description starts with: align="left" width="70%">
and ends with: </font>

Date starts with: <font color="#333333">
and ends with: </font><br>

Date format: HH:mm


Hope you enjoy it as much as I do now :)


Bilu

[mrbass]

RSS (my definition) = use firebird or mozilla
Open all bookmarks in tabs of sites you visit daily then 'Bookmark all tabs in a folder'. Then just click that bookmark and click it every 30 mins while at work. I've tried RSS with many popular sites and just couldn't understand the fuss about it. Most show just the headlines which doesn't quite do it for me.

Also that webblogging stuff we http://wordpress.org/ and http://www.moveabletype.org/ the trend or fad about this. Guess I'm in the 'out' crowd.

[bilu]

I got to my work place. Unlocked my W2K workstation, read the mail.

There were mails from Doom9 forum, notifications of new answers on threads I subscribed. Then I maximized Synderella and looked at the new threads ( showing up like unread items in Outlook ).

I had info about new items in Doom9 news, Avisynth Usage, Avisynth Development, XVID and General Discussion. When the titles were interesting I opened the links.

Just beautiful :D

@mrbass

That's how I used to do, but everytime I open another app and come back to Firebird I get a lot of disk activity.

This way is much lighter to run, and easier to browse, once you setup up your preferred links. Of course you need to waste some time at first trying to figure how to parse that site when it doesn't have RSS. But I prefer this to RSS because I can update every 5 minutes over every site ;) .

I'll never go back to multi-tabbed browsing over my regular sites :)


Bilu