@#2,SkippyElectrochomp: the rating is from all language pages together, and - being German myself - every now and then I read the comments on the German page and run away, as I prefer the English page. The Germans are making a sport out of rating negatively, simply to rate negative. The commnets are mostly extremely stupid, BSing the software etc., without having downloaded and tried it. Things like, they think everyone in the world must speak German - bad rating just because a software does not have a German UI. Or, common, because they don't need a software or don't even look what it can be used for they find it completely useless. And if it is useless for the little "me", it does not think beyond that there live more people in the world who well may want just that piece of software. These people think just for them every day GAOTD has to offer something that they especially would want. There is very rarely a comment that really has downloaded and tried the software and gives a useful information. Most of it is really just cynical silly stuff from those who have not even downloaded it, just to have something to BS. Often if anyone really writes a useful comment and likes the download, they get rude comments for that as well.
On the other hand more intelligent folks there does not write commenst nor rates, because of that. They just download and stay quiet.
As for me, if I wish to comment /rate, I do it on the English page.

Maybe that clarifies the weird thumbs ratio.

Sabine  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+65)

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Lol, why do people immediately thumbs-down a product they haven't even DOWNLOADED? I came here 12:02 AM [which was the earliest I could get here; any earlier and it didn't display the next giveaway] and there were already 5 thumbs down and 0 thumbs up.

Anyways, about the program. Apparently, you can't just take any old webpage from online and turn it into a RSS feed. It needs to be set up in one of two ways, both of which are explained here:
http://www.extralabs.net/rss-wizard-examples.htm [This link is also included in the program itself, but I should post it here just to make sure people know about it.]
I'll give this program a more thorough test run later. It's 12:21 AM here and I'm tired!

SkippyElectrochomp  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+64)

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Re #8, that's not rating the software, it's rating the user.

Gary  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+12)

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@ #10 - If you are using a service like Blogger, the RSS feed is created automatically.... so you don't need this software. On the other hand, if you are using plain vanilla site hosting you need to be able to create the XML for whatever RSS feeder you use (Feedburner etc.). That's where RSS feed creation software like this is needed.

The HTML > XML feature in this software may not support all HTML tags or have some limitations, but that is perfectly fine in most instances. The user just needs to adapt. The main issue here is ease of use. An RSS feed is always a good feature for a web site but few people actually use it. So I for one do not want to spend much time authoring the feed.

I am looking forward to try this offering out. Thanks GAOTD and ExtraLabs for this opportunity.

Paul  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+10)

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RSSWizard uses Microsoft Visual Basic [VB], which requires that several common files be registered in Windows, so they are available for all VB apps. There were several versions of these VB runtime files & controls as Microsoft developed the programming tools -- RSSWizard does not use the newest -- you can download the most recent VB runtime from Microsoft's site [released years ago], but some of the files included with RSSWizard, like ASYCFILT.dll, I *think* were updated in various Microsoft hot fixes, so they may be a bit harder to track down. Since some of those [older] files are included in the program's folder, since the setup file has 1/2 dozen for the system folder, & since setup includes directions to register these files & their locations with Windows, installing [& particularly installing then removing] RSSWizard may break other VB apps you already have installed.

mike  –  14 years ago  –  Βρήκατε αυτό το σχόλιο χρήσιμο? ναι | όχι (+10)

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