{"id":588,"date":"2007-05-08T13:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T19:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/photo-updates-and-rss-feed.html"},"modified":"2007-10-28T14:21:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-28T19:21:33","slug":"photo-updates-and-rss-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2007\/photo-updates-and-rss-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo updates (and RSS feed)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t know that our <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/main.php\">photo gallery<\/a> had its own RSS feeds.<\/b> &nbsp;Actually, you can be excused, because for a while the feeds disappeared. &nbsp;I went looking for them today, and discovered they were missing, and reactivated them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve updated the <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=16\">Recent shots&#8230;<\/a> album with pictures from <b>Taxco<\/b>, a nearby <b>trout farm<\/b>, and more. &nbsp;Here are the most recent photos that are in the album (brought to you by the wonders of the RSS news feed):<br \/><script language=\"JavaScript\" src=\"http:\/\/feed2js.org\/\/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fcottrillcompass.com%2Fgallery%2Fmain.php%3Fg2_view%3Drss.SimpleRender%26g2_itemId%3D16&amp;chan=title&amp;num=5&amp;html=a\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><noscript><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feed2js.org\/\/feed2js.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fcottrillcompass.com%2Fgallery%2Fmain.php%3Fg2_view%3Drss.SimpleRender%26g2_itemId%3D16&amp;chan=title&amp;num=5&amp;html=y\">View RSS feed<\/a><br \/>\n<\/noscript><br \/>Each album has its own RSS feed. &nbsp;To find it, go to the album you want, then look to the left of the page. &nbsp;What most people will want is the newest photos, so to find those use <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=rss.SimpleRender&#038;g2_itemId=16\">this news feed<\/a><br \/>You should already know that Finding direction has its own news feed, at <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/findingdirection\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/findingdirection<\/a>. &nbsp;And if you&#8217;re a real <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\">CottrillCompass.com<\/a> fanatic, I created a MASTER feed that will show the latest entries in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/main.php\">photo gallery<\/a> AND <a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\">Finding direction<\/a>:<br \/><center><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/CottrillCompass-dot-com\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/CottrillCompass-dot-com<\/a><\/center><br \/>Don&#8217;t even know what an RSS feed is? &nbsp;An RSS feed is a specially formatted feed that updates whenever something at the source it&#8217;s updated. &nbsp;It&#8217;s read by news reading programs. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a way to always keep up to date with the latest. &nbsp;Some programs that read news feeds include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curiostudio.com\/\">GreatNews<\/a> (I use this a lot)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics\">Thunderbird<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Live_Bookmarks_-_Firefox\">Firefox<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/ie\/features.mspx\">Internet Explorer<\/a><\/li>\n<p>And of course online services like:<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\">Google Reader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/my.yahoo.com\/\">My Yahoo!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloglines.com\/\">BlogLines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One more thing, and this is really nifty. &nbsp;You can use <a href=\"http:\/\/pack.google.com\/screensaver.html\">Google Photos Screensaver<\/a> to automatically add our most recent photos to your screensaver! &nbsp;I had a little trouble getting this to work with the normal album screensavers, so just to make things more complicated, I made a new feed just for use in the Google Photos Screensaver. &nbsp;Use this one:<br \/><center><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=rss.Render&#038;g2_name=Latest+photos\">Feed for Google Photo Screensaver<\/a><\/center><br \/>The screensaver will show the latest 50 photos (I think!), along with the titles. &nbsp;You can click a link to go directly to the photo online to read the description.<\/p>\n<p>Now you have more information than you ever wanted. &nbsp;But if you want to learn more about news or web feeds, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/News_feed\">this article on Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t know that our photo gallery had its own RSS feeds. &nbsp;Actually, you can be excused, because for a while the feeds disappeared. &nbsp;I went looking for them today, and discovered they were missing, and reactivated them. 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