Firefox users: What sites do you have as live bookmarks?

Dani

Besides the basic news (CNN, MSNBC and CBC Ottawa) I found tonight that DPreview has a RSS feed too... and so now I'm wondering what other cool sites (photography or otherwise) have feeds that can be 'live bookmarked'.

W.W. Webster

Dani wrote:

Besides the basic news (CNN, MSNBC and CBC Ottawa) I found tonight that DPreview has a RSS feed too... and so now I'm wondering what other cool sites (photography or otherwise) have feeds that can be 'live bookmarked'.

[URL=feed://www.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss]Apple Hot News[/URL]

colourbox

I've been using Safari's RSS bookmarks since OS X 10.4 came out; here are some of mine.

Photoshop News
feed://photoshopnews.com/feed/

Photoshop Recent Support Documents
feed://rss.adobe.com/www/support/recent/recent_ps.xml

Macworld
feed://www.macworld.com/rss.xml

Publish.com Digital imaging and Photography
feed://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/publishphoto.xml

Digital Photography Review
feed://www.dpreview.com/news/dpr.rdf

Digital Camera Resource Page
feed://www.dcresource.com/newsfeed/news.rdf

and of course how could you not have:
Smugblog Release Notes
feed://blogs.smugmug.com/release-notes/feed/

I've just gotten into the habit of looking for the RSS/XML/Atom feed icon on any page that I might want to monitor. Don't add bookmarks that are just going to add noise to your "new article" alert, like the local daily news.

Dani

thats the nice thing about the live bookmarks... you don't get any 'new article' alerts....

Mike Lane

http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/css
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/xhtml
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/javascript
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/photoshop
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/photography
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/smugmug
http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/webdesign

I'm a big fan of del.icio.us if you couldn't tell

colourbox

Dani wrote:

thats the nice thing about the live bookmarks... you don't get any 'new article' alerts....

How do they work in Firefox? Do you have to check each bookmark to see if there's new news?

Dani

yup pretty much... The live bookmark acts kind of like a regular bookmark folder... with all the new news added as bookmarked links

colourbox wrote:

How do they work in Firefox? Do you have to check each bookmark to see if there's new news?

colourbox

Ah, I see. Thanks. In Safari, if you add an RSS feed to the bookmarks bar, a little number appears in the bookmarks bar with the count of the new articles within that bookmark menu. Then if you want to see what those articles are you can pull down the menu. I like that system because I never need to pull down the menu unless there actually is something new.

This is all personal preference; I'm just interested in comparing how the browsers are doing this.

But the issue is the same on either browser. If you add a site that adds many news items that aren't immediately important, in Firefox they'd fill up the submenu with articles that would drown out the meat. In Safari they'd increase the new post number. In both cases it's harder to find the truly important articles, because it's disappointing to check the new articles only to have the important articles buried under a lot of incidental news. The point being that with experience I've become picky about the feeds that I add.

wxwax

Mike Lane wrote:

http://del.icio.us/rss/popular/photography
I'm a big fan of del.icio.us if you couldn't tell

Really, really nice little gallery of autumn shots.

http://ssilence.deviantart.com/journal/6905170/

MPerdomo

colourbox wrote:

Ah, I see. Thanks. In Safari, if you add an RSS feed to the bookmarks bar, a little number appears in the bookmarks bar with the count of the new articles within that bookmark menu. Then if you want to see what those articles are you can pull down the menu. I like that system because I never need to pull down the menu unless there actually is something new.

This is all personal preference; I'm just interested in comparing how the browsers are doing this.

But the issue is the same on either browser. If you add a site that adds many news items that aren't immediately important, in Firefox they'd fill up the submenu with articles that would drown out the meat. In Safari they'd increase the new post number. In both cases it's harder to find the truly important articles, because it's disappointing to check the new articles only to have the important articles buried under a lot of incidental news. The point being that with experience I've become picky about the feeds that I add.

Even better is that those RSS feeds can be incorporated as Screen Savers in 10.4 using Quartz Composer. Apple has one premade that's included.

I made one that pulls random Vin Diesel facts and shows them. Fun stuff

Andy

SmugBlogs of course!