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moerl:
I just thought of another argument in favor of rht RSSMix.com method.. since I read feeds while on the go as well as while on "public" computers through Newsgator's web reader, I won't have access to the filters if I set them up at the desktop at home inside FeedDemon. With the RSSMix method, I will have the updated software feed anywhere I go.

RSSMix method wins.

justice:
I just started trialling http://FeedRinse. All membership plans are now free. You can set up a list of feeds, I've used the 6 from muntealb and added filehippo:

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
http://www.filehippo.com/rss

Then you can set up a new channel called software updates with the rules: Allow posts containing winamp. Hopefully this blocks all other posts.
Then subscribe to that rss feed. I'm not sure if it blocks all the others though, and it's tough to test as software releases don't happen every five minutes. The site is easy to use but very simple. I'll update with my experiences.

RSS feed for updated software?

Curt:
In October CyberNotes had a really fine tutorial on how to use RSS for program's updates: http://cybernetnews.com/2007/10/11/cybernotes-create-a-custom-software-update-notifier/

justice:
I have just failed to create an autohotkey script that will generate an RSS feed with only updates to your installed programs.

However the script works, it's just that the URL generated won't work with the service i'm using. However maybe one of you knows an alternative server or can make this script work, then it's worth a look.

Basically the script loops through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall and adds all installed programs to a query that uses ReFilter to filter out only matching entries from a general software update rss feed I created by combining 8 software update feeds (6 mentioned here and two more from the Cybernetnews link).

The thing would work but ReFilter doesn't allow such lengthy urls. Anyone wants to pick this up?

Script sourceSetBatchLines -1  ; Makes searching occur at maximum speed.
Filter =
Gosub, RegSearch
StringReplace, Filter, Filter,%A_Space%,`%20, All
MsgBox, Your browser will now be pointed to the URL to subscribe to
URL=http://re.rephrase.net/filter/?feed=http`%3A`%2F`%2Ffeedrinse.com`%2Fservices`%2Fchannel`%2F`%3Fchanurl`%3D361b26ed7fa2a88f710219cb73b57379&filter=%Filter%
Run, %url%
return

RegSearch:
Loop, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall , 1, 1
{
    Gosub, CheckThisRegItem
}
return

CheckThisRegItem:
if A_LoopRegType <> REG_SZ  ; Remove these two lines if you want to check key names too.
   return
IfInString, A_LoopRegSubKey, {
   return
RegRead, RegValue
if ErrorLevel
    return
if (A_LoopRegName = "DisplayName")
   Filter = %Filter%%RegValue%`%7C
return

40hz:
For security related and some other stuff:

http://www.dozleng.com/updates/index.php?act=module&module=pages&pg=rss

There are a couple of feeds available.

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