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How to set RSS feeds as your desktop

how to set rss feeds as desktopWant the top news you're interested in without opening up a browser. Well there is a way to do it in just six steps!

Toshibi over at Instructables, (a place where you can share with others what you make, and teach them how to make it) has figured out how to turn his desktop into a constantly updating RSS bulletin board. Steps include:
  • Creating an HTML document with all the appropriate rows and columns
  • META tag refresh tag to have the page refresh every 10 minutes
  • Create HTML feeds with FEED2JS
  • Save file on computer
  • Set the HTML page as a LIVE web desktop (correct me if I'm wrong but this feature might only work in XP)
There you have it, all the fresh content you could ever want. Thankfully, Toshihi also proves the full source files to anyone that wants to hack around with it and easily built their own.

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