List of Feed Aggregators / RSS Readers Supporting HTTPS/SSL & HTTP Authentication

October 8th, 2008 In my previous article I have already discussed about how to use the Online Feed Aggregators to view the password protected Feed with username and password. Now the next thing that should come to your mind is how do they actually fair in maintaining the security of your account.

February 2nd, 2004 One of the reasons I moved out from blogspot, to my own server, was because I couldn't create a RSS Feed of the blog easily. Today I found that blogstreet provides a simple way to do so.

October 7th, 2008 Online feed readers are the latest evolutions in the world of information and news sources. It is developing by leaps and bounds and that day isn't far off when online feed readers will be as essential as your newspaper or careergraphs.

June 12th, 2005 With the rapid proliferation of RSS Feeds and offline aggregators it is presumable that virus writers will try to exploit this avenue to spread the virus. But the question is whether it is feasible? In short technically a resounding YES.

August 26th, 2006 Comprehensive List of WordPress 2.x Rewrite Rules: Note 1: The built-in rules are provided to guide you in writing your own fancy rules. Note 2: In case you are wondering anything before and including the '?' is ignored in match.

October 20th, 2005 I wouldn't re-hash popular arguments for / against providing full RSS feeds here. I would just like to point out a simple capability with most RSS readers, I have tested with, that can be leveraged to keep both camps happy.

June 16th, 2005 Recently there has been a plethora web based aggregator sites. Some of them like diabetologica blatantly displays the full content from the feed.

July 24th, 2005 Tuesday is the most active day in RSS; Saturday least active. - Our initial observations of the data point to Tuesday being the most active day for viewership, feed retrieval and click-throughs.

November 30th, 2005 LifeHacker is a nifty blog in Nick Denton's blogomerate (blog + conglomerate) which provides interesting tips for computer users. So here is my tip for LifeHacker users (and other readers of Gawker Media), LifeHacker style.

July 6th, 2007 Java provides a super simple, yet hidden from plain view, way to do basic authentication of HttpURLConnection / URLConnection. Before making a connection add the following lines of code: final String login ="..."; final String password ="..."; Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() { protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() { return new PasswordAuthentication (login, password.toCharArray()); } }); This sets your default Authenticator which is called whenever authentication is required for any URLConnection.

July 13th, 2006 We are working to provide a better mailing list for our blog readers who prefer to subscribe by email. The current provider bloglet.com is unreliable at times.

June 11th, 2005 I was initially providing excerpted feeds only. However I switched over to full feed format.

October 8th, 2008 Simple Thoughts now has a working Subscribe-by-email facility. Unlike many other blogs which provide this facility, we do not use FeedBurner.

August 29th, 2008 Please share your experience with Google AdSense for Feeds. My experience is pretty dismal so far.

June 8th, 2006 Using cURL (in PHP) to access https url is often not as simple as using the proper url. Using it for authentication is also not very clearly documented.