Rawdog With Plugins… at Robert Pogson

Chuckle. After a bit of tweaking and browsing I have installed and configured a plugin that makes rawdog feed-reader do what I want, almost. It’s good enough to replace Google Reader.

The plugin that does the trick adds a sidebar index so that I get displayed only the feed upon which I click. I also reordered my feeds so that my early-rising sites are more likely at the top. This works for me:

The plugin that works for me is sidebarfeedwise

It’s pretty cool. rawdog itself is in the Debian repository. It helps to use the stylesheet from the package… which you can copy into your ~/.rawdog directory. Enable plugins and change the template in the config file and we’re all set up.
~/.rawdog$ head config
plugindirs plugins
template sdTemplate.html
feed 3h http://www.digitimes.com/rss/daily.xml
feed 3h http://feeds.feedburner.com/muktware/feeds
feed 3h http://www.h-online.com/grand-atom.xml

I showed how to add in a long list of feeds exported from Google Reader last time. I just put
15 * * * /usr/bin/rawdog -uw with my crontab -e command and point my browser via a bookmark of
file:///home/pogson/.rawdog/output.html and I am in operation.

Cool. I get more or less the behaviour of Google Reader and no chance that some corporation will clean house or jerk my feeds around spoiling my day in July or any month. Rawdog is FLOSS, too, so it can be tweaked infinitely if there’s anything fancier to be done.

I recommend Debian GNU/Linux. You can make your PC more useful/productive/reliable and compete with the big guys for a fraction of the cost.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.

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1 George Hostler Mar 20th, 2013 at 9:36 am

I’m glad to see Robert, you were able to find a suitable work around from FOSS, excellent.

In a similar vein, overall I have been using Gimp to edit photos for posting on the Internet. Some blogs and forums have restrictions to file and pixel sizes, so I am able to easily crop, adjust exposure, correct tonality, downsize to smaller pixel resolutions (i.e., 640×480 and 800×600), and etc.

Also I find Audacious an excellent tool from my netbooks as portable play systems for downloaded video sound tracks and MP3 files through my Behringer keyboard amp as backing tracks for doing saxophone solo play and improvisation.

FOSS does certainly fill niches for Linux.
2 dougman Mar 20th, 2013 at 2:19 pm

GIMP, kicks ass.

I saved one company a few thousand dollars, by showing them what GIMP was and how to use it.

I tend to like VLC for videos and Clementine for music.