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RSS feeds
A collegue explained a little about RSS feeds today and I started to like it and it can be a nice addition to CDZ imo!
If you're not familiar with RSS feeds, quite a number of news sites have them and what most of them do is create an XML file with news headlines. As a user you just need a RSS reader (many are around for free) that periodically polls the feed(s) and if there is anything new they can do a pop-up, play a sound or whatever. This really depends on the reader and what it can do with the XML. This could be a very nice alternative for polling Active Topics because you could get notifications of new topics / replies while say spamming CFC off-topic or playing a massive Civ turn. By having a link in the pop-up you could go straight to the right CDZ topic. There even is a mod availalbe for the Snitz forum and it seems to install pretty easy. http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=56247 Ain't this nice? For me this would be ideal while being at work. 
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01-04-2005, 19:21
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Great idea. Add it now
And to all you lovers of open source: Mozilla.org and related websites have several RSS readers that work as plugins in your browser. I have one that sits in my statusbar, and feeds me from a selection of blogs and whatnot. Please PP and anarres
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01-04-2005, 19:28
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01-04-2005, 19:29
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what I'd prefer os an acitve topic page that is not organized into seperate fora but has the list in ONE part, as on CFC - that'd do for me, thank you
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01-04-2005, 19:34
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I'd prefer to have a German poster on the forum that I dont have to run through the "Dyslexic" setting on Babelfish.
Cant have everything though! Melifluous
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01-04-2005, 19:36
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at least I do not wear pink
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01-04-2005, 19:39
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I want to
 for some strange reason. Dunno why  @shabba: I get 5 blog feeds in my statusbar. They dont take up much space, the whole plugin just gives a smallish rectangle with the headline of a blog post every now and then - clickable so that I can choose to read if I find it interesting. Many newspapers and such use RSS as well, so I get a couple of them too [  ]
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01-04-2005, 19:42
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He has disgusting eating habits too
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