The Syncing Apple » OPML http://dillernet.com/apple An Exploration of Technology and Devices Wed, 02 May 2012 20:22:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Nother test from OPML http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/12/nother-test-from-opml/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nother-test-from-opml http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/12/nother-test-from-opml/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:02:18 +0000 dillera http://dillernet.com/apple/?p=75 This is my first test from the Macintosh version of the OPML editor. Dave released a new version of wp.root yesterday and it seems to support catagories on your blog. So I'm trying it out. I read about it over at Nomadic Coder.

Wow, I didn't realize that the editor understood a link- it just swallowed up that last href I typed out.

]]> http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/12/nother-test-from-opml/feed/ 0 770 Reader meet OPML Editor http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/10/770-reader-meet-opml-editor/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=770-reader-meet-opml-editor http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/10/770-reader-meet-opml-editor/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:45:25 +0000 admin http://dillernet.com/apple/?p=73 One OPML reader that did agree with the OPML output by the Liferea RSS reader in the Nokia 770 was the OPML Editor written by Dave Winer.

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Go figure.

]]> http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/10/770-reader-meet-opml-editor/feed/ 0 RSS Wrangling on the 770 http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/10/rss-wrangling-on-the-770/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss-wrangling-on-the-770 http://dillernet.com/apple/2005/12/10/rss-wrangling-on-the-770/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:10:44 +0000 dillera http://dillernet.com/apple/?p=70 opml.gifI was looking around the other day for some good gui blog posting apps for windows. But I was also looking for some good RSS readers for Windows... I ended up looking at RSS Bandit and the OPML editor from Dave Winer. The OPML editor is a bit of a trial, as I don't see how you actually use it to add and read RSS, but the Bandit works well enough. I found a great page that lists at least a hundred RSS readers for Windows, so I'm posting that URL here.
http://allrss.com/rssreaderswindows.html
After playing with a few of these to try and manage a RSS feed list for my new Nokia 700 (which comes with a RSS newsreader) I've found that these vary wildly in features and capabilities... but here are three that I ended up using. All these support importing and export OPML, which is a must if you are jumping between them.

  • Sharpreader - #1 Google hit for "windows rss" - this is a speedy and nice basic aggregator. The best feature is has is the auto parse field- the URL field at the top can be use to just paste in the URL for any website, and it will rip the page up and auto-discover the feeds... then you simply click the Subscribe button. A huge time saver. What drove me nuts is that you can't move the subscriptions once you have them, for instance if you want to put them in a sub-folder.
  • RSS Bandit - a really nice free aggy. This seems to output the cleanest OPML, that is why I used it.
  • NewzCrawler - a fully featured reader/crawler ($20) that I used only because it has a superb organizing UI, and the interface is rock solid. It does a lot that I don't need. However, it was useful for organizing all the feeds that I grabbed.

I ended up using Sharpreader to build my raw list of feeds, just by copying and pasting my bookmarks from Firefox into its ripper. Then I exported the list and edited it with NewzCrawler. Then I exported it yet again and imported it into RSSBandit just to normalize the RSS (or so I thought). The final output was destined for my Nokia 770, but there were still issues with the OPML... see my next post for what I ended up doing.

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