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Download Soapbox Videos to Your PC & Zune

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jul 17th @ 10:09 AM
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Thanks to a new feature in Soapbox, the section of user-generated videos found here on MSN Video, you can now automatically download and sync videos to your PC and to your Zune. With this new option, you can subscribe to Soapbox videos by category, user video list, or via a search. That last option is especially helpful, as it will retrieve any videos relating to a particular search term and have them automatically sync to your PC. So, for example, if you wanted to see all the videos about Live Mesh, you could just search for the term live mesh and subscribe the results.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: download, MSN Video, RSS, Soapbox, subscribe, Zune

Read RSS Feeds on Your Media Center TV

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 21st @ 10:40 AM
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The Media Center RSS Reader application lets you read RSS news items on your Media Center TV as well as watch and/or listen to podcasts and watch video blogs. Originally developed for XP Media Center, there is now also a version for Vista Ultimate. The application adds a new option to Media Center's Start page called "Accessories." From there, you'll have access to a section called "RSS News & Casts" where you'll be able to view your feeds. If you run into any formatting issues or unsupported codecs, the site suggests you try downloading the content to your PC instead via IE's built-in RSS reader, instead. Since I use my Xbox 360 to watch Media Center content on my living room TV, I'm excited to have a way to access not just feeds, but podcasts too, without the addition of another set-top box to do so. (thanks to scribkin for the tip!)
Tags: extension, feeds, MCE, Media Center, podcasts, RSS, TV, Vista, Vista Media Center, Xbox, xp media center

PCWorld Tells You How To Do Everything Faster

Posted By: Sarah Perez | May 12th @ 2:05 PM
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A new article over at PCWorld.com offers up 22 tips on more efficient ways to perform common tech tasks - things like reinstalling Windows, backing up your data, creating a podcast, making a web site, sharing photos, and more. Here are a few sample tips from the article:

Add a Folder to Your Favorites: Drag the beloved folder from Windows Explorer to the Start button, and from there to the Favorites menu. In Windows XP, you also have the option of opening the folder and then clicking Favorites, Add to Favorites from inside the Explorer window...

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Tags: , email, RSS, tips, Utilities

News Search Adds RSS

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 28th @ 10:43 AM
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Here's some great news from the Windows Live Search team: Earlier this month, we told you when the new web service News Search was launched. The site, which offers many great features like local news and top videos was only missing one thing as far as its users were concerned: RSS feeds. Well, no more! A blog posting on the Live Search blog states, "you wanted it, and now you have it." That's right, RSS feed are now available in News Search for all the categories or for the specific searches you perform. Thanks guys!
Tags: news, news search, RSS, search, Windows Live Search

RSS in Outlook

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 17th @ 5:00 PM
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There are lots of ways to keep up with your RSS feeds - online, in a desktop reader, in a program like Newsgator's Inbox 3.0 which integrates into Outlook, or even just in Outlook itself. That last option is especially useful if you work in a company that doesn't allow you to install software on your computer, like a desktop reader, or maybe you just don't want to appear as if you're surfing the internet every time someone looks over your shoulder. (This blog I'm reading is work-related, I swear!) 

Outlook 2007 has RSS feed reading built right into the software...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Outlook, RSS

Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D Keep Getting Better

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Apr 11th @ 1:18 PM
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The Live Maps / Virtual Earth team must have gotten the last shipment of Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel and are putting it to good use pumping out tons of great new features. Jump over to the Virtual Earth Blog for a full recap, or over to ars technica for a hands on look, or just go to http://maps.live.com to use it.

Some of the cool new features include improved 3D views with higher resolution textures, the ability to export to your GPS, the ability to make your own 3D models with 3DVIA (just right click where you want a building), street/other labels in birds eye view, and 1-click directions.

One of my favorite new features is the mash-up features, check out this view of Giants Stadium with a seating data overlay. Also check out this view of the Seattle Transit System.

Those alone make for a significant update, but there's much more. You can now share your custom map content with other people, you can browse to a location and subscribe to a geo-location via RSS, there are tour enhancements, high-def movie output, and direction/traffic enhancements. Great stuff!

Update: Max on Channel 8 has a video, check it out.[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Live, Mash Up, RSS, Virtual Earth

Search Results to RSS Feeds

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Apr 2nd @ 8:41 AM
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This is one of those things that I'm embarrassed to say that I honestly just discovered. I guess I hadn't really needed to turn a search result into an RSS feed until recently, but when I did, I was actually stumped for a bit as to the best way to go about doing so. I mean, I'm familiar with "Alerts," but a feed? Hmmm...  Well, as it turns out, you can do this with Live Search!

According to this blog post from 2005, (yeah 2005...I told you this was embarrassing) you can turn any web search into a feed. I really didn't know this!

The trick is to do a search, then append the text ‘&format=rss’ to the URL. Subscribe. I'm only admitting my ignorance here in case someone else, like me, finds this useful.
Tag: RSS

NewsGator Consumer Products Now Free

Posted By: Larry Larsen | Jan 9th @ 6:07 AM
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NewsGator just announced that NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile will be free. In fact, all consumer products are available at www.newsgator.com for free starting today, and this includes free synchronization. The trade-off includes some data-collection on which feeds you click, but you can turn it off if you don't mind not having synch. Leaving it on helps us all in determining what's popular at any given moment. FeedDemon is a great product so this is great news for RSS users.
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Mobile RSS & More

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Dec 30th, 2007 @ 3:29 AM
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Viigo Personal is a free application for Blackberry & Windows Mobile devices that goes beyond being just a mobile RSS reader. With the Viigo application, you can keep up-to-date with your favorite blogs, news, sports, entertainment, and markets from anywhere you go. The RSS reader lets you keep up with your feeds on the go of course, but the service also offers other features like local weather, headlines, local events, and more. The "local events" feature that lets you subscribe to events, like theater, special interest groups, and bands...[Click to read the full post ]
Tags: Blackberry, mobile, RSS, windows mobile

RSS Screensaver

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Nov 5th, 2007 @ 11:25 AM
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Rsssaver is a RSS screen saver for Windows PCs. Currently in open beta, rsssaver previews RSS feeds from the net and displays them on your screen when your computer's screen saver kicks in. The screen saver shows the channel, title, description, and publish date from any valid RSS URL. Using the OpenGL text rendering engine, the fonts are smooth scrolling and clean. The free application supports Windows 2000, XP, and, as of August, it was "sort of" working in Vista. It looks like the developer hit a snag when trying to code for Vista. Maybe someone can help him out? This would be a killer download for Vista users like myself. The download is available here.
Tags: feeds, RSS, screen saver
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