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Curt:
moerl's prime wish was to know when his programs are updated. Many sites do not yet use RSS, so ...

muntealb:
The best software sites use RSS :

http://www.snapfiles.com/feeds/snapfiles.xml
http://www.softpedia.com/backend.xml
http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/recent.rss
http://www.majorgeeks.com/backend.php
http://www.sofotex.com/download/xml/freeware.xml
http://fileforum.betanews.com/rss2

Using a filter that searches for the names of the desired programs in these feeds is exactly what is needed to be aware when new versions become available.

GreatNews ( http://www.curiostudio.com/ ) is free and perfect for that.

twinkler:
sorry, moerl, i missed that you wanted a single rss feed for all programs. web service rss mix can supposedly do this--see http://www.rssmix.com/.

Curt:
Nice find, twinkler!   :up:

- guess "we" didn't know!!   :-[

http://www.rssmix.com/

moerl:
I thought of that, actually. Adding one master update feed and then creating a "watch" for just the items I'm interested in. The only thing that is not too elegant about this is that I will still have the main feed updating and distracting me. FeedDemon can do the filter/watch thing, of course, and you can also add multiple words to one filter so all it would take is a single filter. I might actually do that. It's a great idea, simple, and what's great is that it lets me edit very quickly what I want to watch for and what I don't, much unlike when you have to handle what titles you want to bed notified about through a particular software portal itself. Softpedia has always been buggy as crap with their software list.. they probably still have not fixed it. I'll have to log in at Softpedia and Betanews to kill all my "software subscriptions", then apply this feed idea. What it lacks in elegance it makes up for in simplicity, speed and flexibility.

Thanks for the suggestion..

And upon some consideration, I have concluded that the feed + custom watch solution is far easier to handle than using RSSMix, for example, though I do much appreciate you mentioning it, twinkler. In another instance, it may well come in very handy.

In fact, using RSSMix you could create the de facto "elegant" solution to this problem. You'd subscribe to exactly one feed and that feed would only show exactly the items you want to know about. Damn it.. saying it like this is causing me to reconsider whether the solution I picked is the best one after all...

I'll think about it :)

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