How to Decide the Update Frequency of an RSS Feed
The answer is often once per day, in some cases once per week. In this article, we'll learn how to decide that.
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My Review of Thunderbird as an RSS Client
Thunderbird is clunky for basic tasks but provides many great advanced features that other RSS clients may not provide. -
How Adding RSS Feeds from Webpage URLs Works
Some RSS clients support adding an RSS feed using a URL that locates a webpage, while others don't and will tell you the URL is invalid. Let's learn why. -
How to Set up Thunderbird as an RSS Reader
Learn how to set up Mozilla Thunderbird (version 128.3) for RSS. -
Thunderbird
AndroidFreewareLinuxmacOSOpen SourceWindowsFree e-mail client and RSS client for Windows and Linux provided by Mozilla. -
E-mail Client
Type of application that you install on your computer that can download your e-mails from your e-mail account on the Internet and store them in your PC and send e-mails as well. -
Local RSS Client
An RSS client that you install on your PC as an application that fetches RSS feeds directly from the source. -
Akregator
FreewareLinuxOpen SourceFree RSS client available for Linux, both natively and as a flatpak. -
My Review of Akregator
Akregator is a very good RSS client with many features, decent polish and customizability, and good support for most use cases, but lacks more advanced functionalities features. Personally, I wouldn't mind using it if I couldn't find something better. -
Separator Character
A text character used to split a text into multiple pieces of text data. -
gnome-keyring-daemon --unlock changed my password
An issue I had recently was that gnome-keyring-daemon changed my login keyring's password when I unlocked it via the terminal with the --unlock command. -
Static Website
Website that doesn't generate webpages using a program (e.g. via PHP) when a request is made. -
Web Server
Server that serves webpages. -
URL Path
The part of an URL after the domain name, e.g. /articles/2546/url-path in https://www.virtualcuriosities.com/articles/2546/url-path, but before an interrogation mark (?) or hash sign (#). -
How to Use RSS to Subscribe to Search Results on Bing
Tutorial: learn how to use RSS to subscribe to the search results on Bing. -
How to Use RSS to Subscribe to Subreddits on Reddit
Tutorial: learn how to use RSS to subscribe to a subreddit on Reddit, i.e. what are the URLs of Reddit's RSS feeds that we can add to our RSS clients. -
RSS Client
An RSS client is a type of application for subscribing to RSS feeds—you need them in order to use RSS. -
RSS Feed
A feed of posts created using the RSS technology. -
RSS
Technology that allows you to "follow" websites without using a social media platform.