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A feed is a mechanism for users to receive updated data (usually structured) from data sources. It is commonly used by real-time applications in point-to-point settings and for news on the World Wide Web.

Client applications can use data feeds for a variety of purposes, such as news distribution, media monitoring, product listings, or financial market information.

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Get RSS feed from iTunes podcast links

I'm using Gnome's Rhythmbox to listen to Podcasts. Some Podcasts don't provide an rss feed for downloading the episodes but only a itms:// link for iTunes. Now I'd like to download them via a "normal" RSS reader/podfetcher. How can I accomplish…
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Vim: show line feeds & carriage-return

How can I display line feeds and/or carriage-return characters in vi/vim? I know that set list shows all the whitespace characters (?), it also replaces tabs \t etc (but that's not what I want). Basically I just want to display certain characters…
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Create an RSS feed from any HTML page

Can someone recommend an HTML page scraper that can turn a webpage into an RSS feed?
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Does Mozilla have a feed that publishes just the Firefox release numbers?

We have an in-house Firefox add-on at work, and I'd like to be notified of new Firefox releases so I can test our add-on right away. I don't use Firefox as my primary browser. I'm also on Ubuntu and use the Firefox from Ubuntu, so even if I did…
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How do I estimate the number of RSS subscribers?

I'm running a website, and would like to get a better idea how many subscribers I have. I can check the number of subscribers on Google Reader for my two feeds (RSS and Atom). I also have access to my server logs, so I sometimes collect all the IP…
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Thunderbird view all feeds in a folder

Is there any way to view all feeds in a folder in thunderbird? As opposed to going through the feeds one by one, have them all merged together? As of now, clicking on a root-level folder I cannot see anything and I have to click on an individual…
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who offers free rss feeds of the most recent usenet messages besides google?

Is there any site, besides groups.google, which offers a free rss feed of the most recent messages for any usenet newsgroup? I mean a service like the following: http://groups.google.com/group/news.groups/feeds
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Podcast - tools for creating feeds

I want to change from a streaming server to the Podcast way of distributing our messages. We are a world wide net of churches with 2 and more messages per week and church to be uploaded. I need some tools to easily create the feed and upload it to…
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View feeds in Firefox not Google

Whenever I click on an RSS or Atom feed link in Firefox (3.5.2), I am redirected to: http://www.Google.com/ig/add?feedurl=... Which is a Google service that prompts me to add the feed to my feed reader account. Did I install some add-on that causes…
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How do I increase the number of RSS feeds in Firefox?

I added lots of RSS feeds into Firefox bookmarks. But some of the new feeds are not shown because of a limitation. Is it possible to increase the number of viewed feeds? (For example, for xxxxxx.com it should show the last 300 feeds.)
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Mediawiki Releases RSS Feed?

Suppose I run a small wiki powered by MediaWiki. I want to keep mediawiki up to date, but in order to do this I need to remember to check the Mediawiki homepage. This can get quite tedious, so I have been looking for an RSS/Atom feed that I can add…
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Printing pages to different feeds (pdf) WINDOWS

We are currently sending out letters that print: Letter on letter-head (customized for recipient) Instructions on regular paper (customized for recipient) These letters are all sent automatically in a PDF, so the PDF pages look something…
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How to add RSS feed from feedburner.com to Thunderbird

I found out that Google has a Security Blog and I would like to add the RSS Feed to the list of my favourite RSS feed on Thunderbird: Unfortunately feedburner.com offers a strange list of RSS feed: My Yahoo, freedly, netvibes, SubToMe, RSSOwl,…
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Automate Generation of RSS Feed

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a free website that will create an RSS feed for you on website that do not have RSS feed. Example of this is http://www.feedyes.com/ . But this is a paid service...
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How do I add a live tile to Windows 8.1 from an RSS feed?

How can I create a live tile in Windows8.1 using content from an RSS feed? For example, if I have an RSS feed http://example.com/feed.xml how can I add this content to a live tile?
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