RSS Reader
Make a choice to integrate an RSS reader into your Branded Desktop Toolbar, to allow users receive RSS feeds on the desktop.
RSS is becoming a popular web tool for notifying subscribers of upcoming events and website changes. A growing number of sites are offering RSS feeds.
An RSS announcement arrives to the desktop in regular time intervals called poll periods.
Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allows you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use. It will diversify the configurations of your Branded Desktop Toolbar, adding utility and value. You will capture the attention of habitual RSS users who will consistently turn to your desktop toolbar for RSS.
You will gain definite advantages by adding RSS channels to your Branded Desktop Toolbar.
Make your branded reader the only one your users need for RSS. Your branded Desktop Toolbar RSS reader will provide superior performance and a consistent RSS connection, along with an excellent set of features.
- Promotes your brand
- Steady on the desktop
- Multi-channel feeds
- Drag-and-drop subscription
Your users will appreciate the ease of drag-and-drop RSS subscription. To subscribe to feeds from web pages more easily users can just drag and drop an RSS icon from a web-page to the Desktop Toolbar. Also, users will receive periodic notifications about updates to subscribed feeds. Your branded reader contains multiple subscription channels that lets users subscribe to as many websites as they want.
If you'd like to become an RSS feed provider, there is a way to let your desktop toolbar users receive your RSS announcements automatically, through means of setting up and locking your own RSS channel in the toolbar.
How to put RSS reader into toolbar:
1) Define RSS Menu Items in configuration file as follows :
<ITEM caption ="RSS">
<ITEM caption="Manage RSS" command="edit_rss"/>
<ITEM caption = "Add RSS" command = "add_rss"/>
<ITEM caption = "RSS Options" command = "options_rss"/>
</ITEM>
2) Add the following description into configuration as follows:
<LOCALHTML name="edit_rss" href="rss_feeds\edit.htm"
newbrowserwindow="flash_window" flash_type="system_editrss"/>
<LOCALHTML name="add_rss" href="rss_feeds\add.html"
newbrowserwindow="flash_window" flash_type="system_addrss"/>
<LOCALHTML name="options_rss" href="rss_feeds\options_rss.html"
newbrowserwindow="flash_window" flash_type="system_rssoptions"/>
These 3 HTML files are to be bundled into desktop toolbar package. These files define how your Edit RSS page, Add RSS page and RSS Options pages will look.
You can fully design these files to provide your users with your own interface.