How to add Podcast RSS feeds to the NewsFeed Launcher
Podcast RSS feeds can be added to the NewsFeed similarly as other non Podcast RSS feeds in the new 24.0.0 version.
Adding new Podcast Feed using its RSS Feed URL
- Firstly, you need to find the feed’s URL:
- Find the RSS URL on the news website
- Search for a podcast on your favorite news site
- Find the RSS icon on the podcast’s page. It looks something like this:
- Tap on the RSS icon. On the opened page, copy the URL from the browser.
- After you have the RSS URL:
- Go to “Settings”/“RSS”/“plus button” in the NewsFeed Launcher
- Insert the URL into the RSS URL field
- Tap on the “Check And Add” button
Adding new Podcast Feed using SoundCloud channel URL
- Search for your favourite channel on SoundCloud
- On the channel’s page, click on the share button, than copy the sharing url
- Go to “Settings”/“RSS”/“plus button” in the NewsFeed Launcher
- Insert the URL into the RSS URL field
- Tap on the “Check And Add” button
Adding new Podcast Feed using Apple Podcast sharing URL
- Search for your favourite Podcast channel
- in the Apple Podcast app on an apple device, then on the channel’s page, click on the sharing button, then share the channel’s link with your Android device (via e-mail or something else)
- OR on the web, than get the sharing URL from the channel’s web page. (the sharing button is visible only in the desktop mode)
- Go to “Settings”/“RSS”/“plus button” in the NewsFeed Launcher
- Insert the URL into the RSS URL field
- Tap on the “Check And Add” button
Notes
- Spotify links are not RSS feeds, and Spotify nor provides Podcast RSS feeds, so their links will not work.
- The SoundCloud & Apple Podcast URL may not work for some channels.
New default icon pack change request in the NewsFeed Launcher
With the newest NewsFeed Launcher version 20.0.0, third party icon packs now can request to be the selected icon pack.
This can be possible via a similar method as in another launchers.
Example code:
class ExampleActivity extends Activity {
...
private void onApplyIconPackClick() {
String selfPackageName = getPackageName();
Intent request = Intent("hu.oandras.newsfeedlauncher.APPLY_ICON_PACK");
request.setPackage("hu.oandras.newsfeedlauncher");
ComponentName component = new ComponentName(
"hu.oandras.newsfeedlauncher",
"hu.oandras.newsfeedlauncher.customization.ApplyIconPackActivity"
);
request.setComponent(component);
request.putExtra("package", selfPackageName);
startActivityForResult(request, REQ_CODE);
}
...
}
How to setup weather forecasts in the NewsFeed Launcher
The app uses the OpenWeather OneCall API to query the weather forecast data. To view weather forecasts in the app, follow the following steps:
How to import your RSS feeds from Feedly into the NewsFeed Launcher
An OPML file can contain multiple RSS feed urls in xml format, these files can make super easy to move your RSS subscriptions between your RSS applications.
NewsFeed Launcher also supports the OPML file format, so these files can be easily imported.
How to find the RSS URL of a website
This article describes, how you can search a RSS URL of a website, what you can use in the NewsFeed Launcher or other RSS reader application.
Most of the time you need to search a page in your web browser (Chrome, Firefox etc.), where you can see similar structure as the following examples:
Time machine exclude list for developers
Backuping the following folders can eat up hundreds of gigabytes on the backup storage, and can cause significant performance reduction if the backup drive is a HDD (some of them can contains millions of files).
- /Applications/Xcode
- /Applications/Xcode-beta
- ~/.gradle
- ~/.npm
- ~/.composer
- ~/.cocoapods
- ~/.android/avd
- ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/Toolbox/apps
- ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application Cache
- ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
- ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport
- {path to a node project}/node_modules
By removing these folders from the backups and excluding them in the System Preferences, the backup process can be faster and will consume less storage space.
Updater can’t detect DataTraveler Locker+ G3 (DTLPG3)
Nor the Windows, nor the Mac OS firmware updater contains device product IDs for every variant. Such as the “DTLPG3_Mac_Updater.zip” and the “DTLPG3 Updater with El Capitan Fix.zip”.
For me the device productID is same as the DTVP (DataTraveler Vault) drive’s productID.
The trick is to make the firmware updater (Mac OS variant) to work:
- Find your DTLocker+G3’s productID in the System Information app, under USB.
- Change the ‘productID’ in the following file, to your drive’s one:
DTLPG3_Mac_Updater.app/Contents/Resources/devicePersonalities.plist
Ex: My drive’s product is 0x160D, so I changed the ID from 0x169D to 0x160D. - Run the firmware updater app
After this modification, the updater can find and reflash the drive.
The latest updater can be downloaded from the Kingston’s website here: https://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/products/dtlpg3
With this update the drive can be used with the latest MacOS Catalina.
ZTE/MTN MF831 – Unhide Port Forward and DMZ settings
1. Plug your stick to your Mac/PC and enter the following url in your browser:
192.168.0.1/goform/goform_set_cmd_process?goformId=USB_MODE_SWITCH&usb_mode=6
You will get: {"result":"success"}
2. Open the Terminal/Cmd and test the connection with
adb shell
. If you get the shell, type exit
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Patched UEFI-BIOS for HP G62-A30SH
The Mac OS Mavericks runs great on this laptop, but to get the wlan work, the original wifi card must be replaced.
The UEFI firmware prevent to start with other card than the original, which thing already made a lot of headaches to hp users.
I patched the firmware, and with an also patched flasher, I been able to overwrite the ROM with the modified version.
You can download the modificated files from here => sp54846.zip
Create vmdk from disk/dmg/sparsebundle
- Open your disk image
- Unmount all partitons, but do not eject the drive/image.
- Open the Terminal app
cd /Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/
- Get your disk number with
diskutil list
./vmware-rawdiskCreator create /dev/diskx fullDevice ~/Desktop/hdd-link lsilogic
./vmware-vdiskmanager -r ~/Desktop/hdd-link.vmdk -t 0 ~/Desktop/hdd.vmdk