They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. What is an RSS feed? Geek alert ahead.skip next paragraph if you want.Īccording to Wikipedia, "RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works-such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video-in a standardized format. To keep on-top of the information, I am a big user of RSS feeds. And I want it from multiple perspectives which means in this age of biased reporting.multiple news sources. I admit it.politics, technology, current events.I love reading about what is going on in the world. Have fun customizing your desktop! Enjoy! Also, you need to remember to force carriage returns in Geektool. I used a Corsiva Hebrew Bold Font 18 points and full justification. Print thequotation "\n" "\n" thesource You need to install Beautiful Soup, which is a Python HTML/XML parser, and it can be found here. Just Google Geektool! For the Omnifocus Geeklets to embed your overdue and due soon items on the desktop, please click here.Īs for the Bible quote, that is a Python Script written by my good friend Nilesh that extracts a daily bible verse from the website. You can find many Geektool scripts (and images of some very tricked out Desktops on the internet). Also, don't forget to customize your desktop image to work with the Geektool elements like the old paper and yellow post-it on my school blackboard. my Omnifocus to-do list cut off on the left or the extracted Bible quote from ). the webcam image or the weather image) and the most powerful outputs from shell commands (e.g. the Post-It note which is simply a note that exists in Notational Velocity), an image from a webserver (e.g. It is a preference pane module that allows you to display the contents of a file (e.g. In the picture above, the to-do list on the left, the post-it note, stock quotes, bible quote, webcam picture and the date
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