ListGarden description
The ListGarden program is a tool for manually creating and maintaining RSS feeds

ListGarden was designed as an application which will help you to manually create and maintain RSS feeds. It is an easy to use open source authoring tool operated with a browser interface that can run locally on a computer running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, or accessed remotely through a web server. The resulting XML file may be stored locally or automatically copied to a remote web server using FTP.

It is useful for RSS feeds that need to be maintained without an automatic system that has built-in RSS generation capability. It can be used for RSS feeds that are change logs, event lists, lists of physical objects, or post lists of podcasts and manually authored weblogs. (Automatic systems with built-in RSS capability include most weblog authoring tools and some content management systems.) The program requires no knowledge of XML or the RSS data format, and is tuned for quick additions of new items and simple editing.

ListGarden can produce an optional companion HTML file for human browsers to read. It also has basic list-maintenance functions making it useful as a simple list manager. The RSS XML and HTML files can be uploaded to any web storage. Most ISPs like EarthLink, Comcast, and Verizon provide basic web hosting storage to their customers that can be used to hold RSS XML and HTML files, so you can publish lists even if you don't have a main website.

For Microsoft Windows systems, ListGarden is available as a single executable file that can automatically launch a browser to control it when run. Clicking the "Quit" button on the screen exits the program. You can also control it from an icon in the system tray.

Here are some key features of "ListGarden":

· Creates and maintains RSS feeds
· Produces both XML and optional human-readable companion HTML
· Runs either on your PC or on a web server
· Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
· Open source
· Requires no knowledge of XML or the RSS data format
· Tuned for quick manual additions of new items and simple editing
· Supports enclosures
· Podcasting
· Change logs
· Notification of additions and updates to traditional websites
· Companions to email newsletters
· Event Lists
· Alerts, announcements, and ongoing status
· Notification of the arrival of new products in a store
· Maintaining simple online lists accessible as both XML and HTML
· News website headlines
· Experimentation with RSS
· Use within a corporate firewall for internal websites


Requirements:

· Windows 98 and above
· 64MB RAM
· Internet connection if uploading result with FTP
· 2.5MB disk space (1.1MB for the executable, another 1MB or so for the temporary extracted files)