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April 2005

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The Latest in Measurement and Control delivered to your Desktop Data acquisition and control news feed (RSS)

Display live measurement and control news in your own web pages, absolutely free! Or grab the news feed in any news reader or aggregator. If you already subscribe to RSS news feeds just add - http://www.windmillsoft.com/monitor.xml - otherwise read on for all the options.

With our RSS news feed you can receive live updates of all the data acquisition and control news. How you receive the news is up to you. You can choose to embed it into your own web pages, read it over the internet, use a special software application, send it to your mobile phone or have it delivered by e-mail.


Embedding News into your own Web pages

Just copy the javascript code below and paste it into one of your web pages. Shortly after news is added, it will appear on your site like in the box to the right. (If you would prefer to use php code, see below.)

If you would prefer a different look, just edit the javascript code.

  • To show more headlines edit &num=5
  • For a different text size edit &font_size=10
  • To open links in a new window, change the 0 to 1 in link_openblank=0"
  • To remove the descriptions below the headlines, change &desc=1 to &desc=0
  • To change the length of the descriptions, change &desc_max=60
  • To change the size of the text, change &font_size=10 (or, to set the text size to that of your stylesheet, delete &font_size=10)
  • To change the colour of the text, change &fgcolor=000000 (or, to set the colour to that of your stylesheet, delete &fgcolor=000000)

The example above uses Javascript. If you wish you can instead use PHP. Copy the code and paste into your php web page.


Using an Internet News Reader

With an Internet News Reader, you use a web browser to see your selected news feeds. There are several companies offering this service. For example, if you have a myYahoo account, you can add news feeds to your page there - click http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://www.windmillsoft.com/monitor.xml

Other options include:

Add to Google Google: http://fusion.google.com/
Feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/
eNewsBlog: http://enewsblog.com/
Get SCUBA news feed into Rocket Rocket: http://reader.rocketinfo.com/
Get SCUBA news feed into Bloglines Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/
Get SCUBA news feed into msnMSN: http://www.msn.com
Add SCUBA News to My Yahoo!Yahoo: http://add.my.yahoo.com/

Using a Software News Reader

A software news reader lets you download the news and then read it offline. Take a look at FeedDemon or Headline Viewer. You will need to add our news feed (http://www.windmillsoft.com/monitor.xml).


Receiving News Via E-mail

There are various services which will deliver the latest news to your e-mail account, including Feedburner, Squeet and FeedBlitz.

Feedburner
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Squeet
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FeedBlitz
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Receiving News Via Your Mobile Phone

You can receive RSS news updates on your mobile.

Mobispine is a free mobile feed browser .
Mobile Catcher is based in the U.S.

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