2009

The latest news from behind the scenes at Firefly

FeedMyInbox.com is a great free service that takes an RSS feed (like the ones that Firefly can generate) and sends you an update by e-mail up to once every 24 hours when the feed changes.

Don't forget, you can generate all kinds of RSS feeds from Firefly including

What's new in site (eg your entire intranet)
What's new in section (eg a department)
What's new in page and children
What's old (for webmasters to see what pages are out of date and might need updating)
Comments on page
My feed (customised, user specific feed controlled by user)

To see some of the available feeds in Firefly, just click the orange RSS icon in your browser, near to the address bar (works on Internet Explorer 7+ and Firefox).

And of course it'll work with all your non Firefly RSS feeds (eg BBC News) as well.

It's completely free. I've been using this service for a while and thought it would be worth sharing it. For feeds that require authentication (protected pages), you will need to put your username and password in the address you give eg http://myuser:mypass@server/test.rss - bear in mind you will be handing over your credentials to the guys and gals at FeedMyInbox.com (and although the service seems to work well, I can't personally vouch for them).