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BeClan is Zeta's most important developer community. A place where developer together can discuss and solve their problems.

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Rich Site Summary (RSS) is an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web, also known as syndication.

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Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a commonly used as a backend format for articles and other publications. For more detailed information on RDF files, you might want to go directly to the official page on RDF files at the World Wide Web Consortium.

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A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger". Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.

TheNewsSniffer

TheNewsSniffer is a Deskbar replicant showing you newsfeeds from your favourite news sites. The formats are used to make a subscribable list of recent updates or items from a news or blog feed:

In feeds there are added by default three important sites for the Zeta community.

To add your own feeds, simply choose New feed..., and add the name of the site in the field for Syndicate Name and the URL to the feed:

Depending on your Internet connection, you should set the Check Interval. By default it is set to 10 minutes. If you have added several news feeds to TheNewsSniffer, you should concider setting the application to check for news updates more often.

In the Preferences you can also change the colors on the text and the background to better fit your wallpaper. By default the color on the text is black and the background white.

TheNewsSniffer will only show the news update once. The next time you start Zeta, the application will only show news updates posted after the last time you ran the computer. The feeds are presented in the bottom of the screen. By clicking on the headlines, your default Internet browser will load you the whole news update.

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