Finding news sites for use with SlashDock

Nov 17, '01 08:03:28PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

In a former submission to MacOSXHints, Slashdock was lauded, but users in the comments section seemed quite perplexed about where you could find other, non-techie news sources for the Dockling. They may want to browse through the extremely large file of RDF, RSS and XML services at http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/servicelist.rss

Read the rest of this article to see the URLs that I use with SlashDock.

These items are not hyperlinked on purpose — you shouldn't view these through your browser. They need to be cut and pasted into certain fields within the Slashdock "plist" file, as described in the original submission. It can be a slight pain in the butt; copy one of the extant articles and change the URLs, titles, and comments as appropriate, using either a text editor or the Property List Editor that comes with Apple Developer Tools.

AP: World
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/69/1469.xml

New York Times: National
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/58/758.xml

New York Times: International
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/64/164.xml

BBC: World
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/60/60.xml

Wired: Politics
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/15/1315.xml

Salon
http://www.salon.com/feed/RDF/salon_use.rdf

SciFi Wire
http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/78/178.xml

Mac OS X Hints
http://www.macosxhints.com/backend/geeklog.rdf

Mac OS X Apps
http://www.macosxapps.com/backend/macosxapps.rdf

MacCentral
http://maccentral.macworld.com/mnn.cgi

MacNN
http://www.macnn.com/macnn.rdf

SlashDot
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml

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Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001111720032837