Apprise on AIR

With each passing day the popularity of aggregators are soaring to new heights. For the uninitiated, Aggregates are like personal newspapers that are being used to create an information space where user gets instant updates and information by syndicating the web contents like news, views , blogs, even MP3 songs (Podcast). Apprise is one such RSS aggregator, a web application for AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) which packs in quite a punch.

Apprise comes across as a rather useful utility that can one learn within minutes. It provides the platform to publish data (feed) which is being aggregated e.g. news from yahoo, stock update from some other website. To start the process click on ‘add feed’ button. In the dialog box “feed URL” insert one hyperlink or more. And click on “add” button. This process creates feed. One can refresh and unsubscribe (delete) the feeds. User has to validate the feed which appears as “XML script in “Feed Validator” in internet explorer before being published. One can also post summary and associated web links for a feed. The code for the application is also freely available to download and once access it by visiting the following link http://code.google.com/p/apprise/