RSS Reader for TPF Posts

[blonboy]

Anyone use an RSS reader to pull the TPF feeds?

I have a small reader i configured to show the latest 15 posts.

I was just wondering what others are using.

~blon

[haraki74]

Just to show my ignorance, how did you do that?

[AlexMorse]

I use Shrook, but can't really get into using it on forums. For some reason I prefer to go and browse the threads. I use it for blogs and news sites mainly.

[Roadrnr]

Originally Posted by haraki74

Just to show my ignorance, how did you do that?

I agree too, what is that exactly?

[blonboy]

Well....basically RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and what happens is a website will publish a feed link which in turn can be registered with an aggregator. The aggregator will request new info from the feed and if there is, it lists it.

IN ENGLISH:
TPF has an RSS feed that you can setup or link to in a program to pull all the latest posts and list them. (as pictured above)

How did I do it?

Since I use Yahoo Instant Messenger - I somehow stumbled across these yahoo widget toys (and there are THOUSANDS of them).
One of the toys happened to be an RSS Reader. Once I installed the reader, all I had to do was to configure it to pull the posts from TPF.

How TO do it: (using yahoo widgets as example)

1. download yahoo widget engine (http://widgets.yahoo.com/download/)
2. install
3. download news reader widget (http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=38003)
4. install news reader widget.
5. Configure news reader widget to pull posts from ALL of your favorite forums and blogs.