Automator workflow of the month: Bring RSS back to Safari 6 - PC Advisor
As of Safari 6, the version of Apples web browser shipping with Mountain Lion, Apple has dropped support for reading RSS feeds within the browser. Instead, Apple asks that you use a dedicated RSS reader when you want to peruse the latest links. But what if you don't want to use such a reader? You can still see RSS articles in Safari with a little help from Apple's automation utility, Automator. It works this way.
Create your workflow
Launch Automator (in the /Applications folder) and in the template chooser that appears, select Service and click Choose. Configure the top of the workflow to read Service Receives No Input in Any Application. In the Actions library select Internet and drag the following actions into the workflow area: Get Specified URLs, Get Link URLs from Articles, and Display Webpages.
In the Get Specified URLs area, click Add and add the address of the RSS feed you wish to view in Safarifeed://rss.macworld.com/macworld/weblogs/mac911 for example. In the Get Link URLs from Articles action, be sure that the Only Return URLs In The Same Domain As The Original Webpage option is enabled. This ensures that you don't wind up with articles pulled from other websites. Save your workflow.
Now, if you click Run in the top-right corner of the workflow, Safari will launch and open multiple tabs, each displaying an article from the feed. In the future, when you want to run the workflow, simply select Services from any applications application menu and choose your workflow from the submenu.(Image Caption: You can still see RSS feeds within Safari 6 with the help of this Automator workflow.)
Add a temporary feed
This is fine if you always want to view feeds from the same websites. But there may be times when you wish to view another sites feed just once. Return to your workflow and in the Get Specified URLs action click on Options. In the area that appears, enable the Show This Action When the Workflow Runs option and save the workflow.
When you next invoke the workflow a Get Specified URLs window will appear. Within it, click on the Add button and enter the feed address for the site you wish to pull articles from and then click Continue.
Filter the feeds
Using this workflow you may encounter sites that have dozens of articles in their feed, offering more tabs that you may wish to click through. You can modify the workflow to filter articles so that you see just the ones youre likely to be interested in. In this case, create a workflow with actions in this order: Get Specified URLs, Filter Articles, Get Link URLs from Articles, and Display Webpages. The Filter Articles action is new and it works like this.
(Image Caption: Narrow down how much RSS content you see by adding a filtering option to your workflow.) Suppose you use Macworlds Mac 911 feed that I provided as an example earlier. You dont want to read all the articles, just Ted Landaus Bugs & Fixes pieces. To see just those articles youd configure the Filter Articles action to read: Content Contains Landau. Save and then run the workflow. When Safari opens, only those Mac 911 articles penned by Mr. Landau will open in tabs.
If you want to change your filtering options each time you invoke the workflow, you already have a clue how to go about it. Return to the workflow and in the Filter Articles action, click on Options, enable Show This Action When the Workflow Runs, and save the workflow. When you next run it youll be able to configure the action and enter new filtering optionsContent Contains Breen, for instance.
Sanjay Joshi to address RSS event in Silvassa - Times of India
SURAT: After the massive response to former chief minister Keshubhai Patel's birthday celebrations on Tuesday, there are more worries lined for BJP in south Gujarat.
Chief minister Narendra Modi's bete noire Sanjay Joshi will arrive in Silvassa on Sunday to participate in Willa gathering organized by local unit of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to celebrate 58 years of the outfit's role in liberating Silvassa from Portuguese rule.
While he will address the gathering in the union territory, Joshi will also visit Vapi before leaving for Delhi. Sources in political circles informed that Joshi's supporters from Gujarat are preparing for his felicitation on the Gujarat border. He would be accorded a warm welcome at railway stations too, sources informed.
The RSS leader is visiting in the region for the first time after his train route was forcibly cancelled following Modi's pressure recently.
"This is a purely non political event. I will come to Silvassa by road from Mumbai and catch a train for New Delhi from Vapi in the evening. I have no plans to visit Gujarat for any event in recent future," Joshi told TOI on phone.
Joshi also said that he is not unaware about any plans to felicitate him.
"Joshiji gave recognition to DNH as an important part during his stay in Gujarat during 1995 to 2001. He also made sure that DNH workers get to play important roles in national-level campaigns," said Dipak Jadhav, president of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Smruti Seva Samiti, which is organizing the event.
Around 500 RSS members from DNH, Gujarat and Daman are expected to participate in the event.
Bolt allays fitness concerns on eve of London 2012 - ESPN.co.uk
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Usain Bolt confirmed on Thursday that he will be fully fit to defend his Olympic 100m and 200m titles at London 2012.
Bolt has caused major concern heading into the summer Games after a series of withdrawals from major events. His absence from Friday's Monaco Diamond League meet was the most recent no-show, heightening fears Bolt may not be ready in time for the London showpiece.
Currently the world record holder for the 100m and 200m events, expectation is on Bolt not only to defend his crowns but to break at least one of those times. However, tight hamstrings have seen the sprinter fly to Munich for specialist treatment, while in the Jamaican trials he was way short of his best when losing to Yohan Blake.
Jamaican team manager Ludlow Watts moved to calm fears on Wednesday by claiming Bolt would be "101 per cent fit", but now the man himself has explained that recent problems have merely been caused by a stiff back.
"My back was a little stiff and caused a problem, but I'm over that," Bolt said.
"I've been training great for the last two or three weeks and I'm ready to go. I will be disappointed if I don't win."
Turning focus to his chances of victory over the next two weeks, Bolt was asked which race he would prefer to win - if forced to choose. His answer was the 200m, due to the effort it requires in training.
"For me it's always going to be the 200m, because I've put so much work into it over the years," Bolt said. "I've really dedicated a lot of time to it.
"It comes easy to me. It's very easy to me."
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LivingSenior.com Receives Increase in RSS Feed Subscribers - YAHOO!
This week the content management staff of LivingSenior.com announced an increase in their RSS feed subscribers. This increase coincided with the recent increase in the In-Home care and Assisted Living categories. With this announcement, the content management of LivingSenior, has decided to offer additional assisted living resources.
(PRWEB) July 26, 2012 This week welcomed an increase in RSS feed subscriptions for the content management team of LivingSenior.com. Megan Coogle, content and social media manager for LivingSenior announced the increase and the plan the content team has in place to continually increase subscriptions to the blog and viewers to the assisted living category of the Senior Center. In the weekly content and social management meeting Ms. Coogle had the following to say regarding the subscription increase. "Our goal is to offer updated and modern content. We want our readers to use our site as a source for current information and clearly, judging by the numbers for the past week, we are reaching our goal."
The content and social management meeting also discussed plans for continually raising RSS feed subscriptions over the next several months. The first plan discussed was to maintain the theme of the week which seems to have not only increased viewer subscriptions, but also has offered more detail about the main topics surrounding senior living, assisted living, home health and retirement planning.
The tools available on the LivingSenior site, Senior Center and Senior Tools are also seeing new development in the coming weeks that will coincide with the theme of the week. Guides to senior living, retirement planning and home health will appear over the next few weeks. Business resources will also see a face lift in the coming weeks.
A significant change on the site will be for senior businesses in the form of lead generation guides and articles set to appear as the theme of the week for next week. Guides for senior business leads will also appear alongside the blogs and articles to help senior businesses and sales professionals connect with Baby Boomers and change their sales plans to accommodate the changing face of assisted living and senior living.
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Dennis to launch cycling mag against IPC and Future - Media Week Online
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Dennis Publishing is seeking to capitalise on the buzz around road cycling with the September launch of Cyclist, a monthly magazine in print and enhanced iPad app format. Cyclist will go on sale on 19 September priced £5 and with a print run of 50,000 ...Cricket-Gayle leads strong Windies reply after Kiwis restricted - Reuters UK
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July 26 (Reuters) - Chris Gayle marked his return to test cricket with an imposing unbeaten 85 as he led West Indies to 145 without loss, chasing New Zealand's 351 all out on the second day of the first test at North Sound, Antigua.
Gayle's characteristically confident performance, supported by fellow opener Kieran Powell (58 not out), came after the hosts spinner Sunil Narine picked up his first five-wicket haul as the tourists failed to build on a promising start with the bat.
West Indies trail by 206 runs with all their first innings wickets intact but Gayle looks ominously capable of amassing a major total in his first test knock in 19 months.
The left-hander has played predominantly Twenty20 cricket during his exile, caused by a dispute with the West Indies Cricket Board, and he began in the style of the shortest format -- taking Chris Martin for four fours in his first over.
Gayle reached his half century in 39 balls but slowed down in the latter stages as he wisely put his mind to making sure he returned to the crease on Friday.
It was an entertaining display but again there were very few fans there to witness it at a poorly attended Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
New Zealand will regret failing to take their chances, however, with Daniel Flynn dropping Gayle off Doug Bracewell when the Jamaican was on 36 and West Indies were 47-0.
Neil Wagner should also have removed Powell when he edged him through the slips but Martin Guptill failed to react.
DISAPPOINTING PERFORMANCE
The frustration with the ball came after a disappointing batting performance from Ross Taylor's men who had resumed on 232 for four.
Narine removed nightwatchman Wagner and then Kane Williamson and Dean Brownlie put their heads down to put on 40 for the sixth wicket before Williamson was bowled, playing on a short delivery from paceman Kemar Roach.
Brownlie followed shortly after, caught behind off Ravi Rampaul, and the score would have been even more disappointing had it not been for a 42-run last wicket partnership between Bracewell and Martin.
That late resistance ended when Bracewell holed out to Shivnarine Chanderpaul off Rampaul.
Any frustration from West Indies at failing to finish off New Zealand was tempered by the fact that at 223 for two on the opening day a much bigger score was within the tourists' grasp.
Narine's 5-132 in his first test in the Caribbean, and just his second career test, should end the discussion about whether his off-spin, highly effective in Twenty20, can translate to the five-day game.
"It felt good to get my first wicket and then go on to get five," Narine said. "You can relax a little bit more (in test cricket), you don't have someone going after you every ball". (Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami, Editing by Ken Ferris)
Thirteen Italian clubs in dock over match-fixing - Football
Published: 26 Jul 2012 - 21:16:57
Thirteen clubs and 44 people including Juventus coach Antonio Conte and Italian international Leonardo Bonucci have been called to appear before a disciplinary commission of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on August 2 as part of an ongoing probe into a match-fixing scandal, the FIGC said on Thursday.
Juventus' Serie A winning coach Conte was implicated in the "Calcioscommesse" affair after one of his former players Filippo Carobbio accused him of complicity in a fixed match during his time as coach of Siena in the 2010/11 season.
Carobbio claims Conte knew of an agreement to draw a match against Novara, after which both teams were promoted to Serie A.
Bonucci, who played in Euro 2012 despite suspicions hanging over him, is accused with having being involved with match fixing when he played for Bari during the 2009-2010 season.
Other players such as Italian defender Daniele Portanova of Bologna are in the same situation as Bonucci and risk a three-year suspension.
Italian internationals Simone Pepe and Marco Di Vaio are also being probed for alleged sporting fraud.
Promoted Serie A side Torino risk also starting the season with points penalty, while Serie B side Lecce risk being relegated to the third division.
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