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Bane
02-17-05, 04:59PM
Did you know that you can list the latest posts on NCT in Trillian Pro?

Doing so is pretty easy, and a tutorial follows to show you exactly how, step by step.

First you'll need Trillian Pro. You can purchase it at http://www.trillian.cc/ but for the purpose of this tutorial we will assume you have it already.

Second you will need the News Plugin (http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/item_download.php?id=140).
This will allow you to download RSS feeds from various sites, including NCT. Simply download the software, close Trillian, and run the executable file.

Once you have the plugin installed you will need to configure it to display NCTs feed. Doing so is pretty straightforward. Open Trillian and enter your preferences menu. You can do so by selecting Trillian from the menu, then Preferences. From here you will want to click on the Plugins option.

In the Plugins display click the checkbox next to the News 2.0 by Crulean Studios option, then click on the News 2.0 by Crulean Studios words. The background should change and a button will pop up that says Change. Click this.

In the popup you will want to click the Add Custom Feed button. Then fill out the form as follows:

Title: No Chick Trix
Server: www.nochicktrix.com
Location: forum/external.php?type=RSS

The rest can stay default. Simply click the Save button, then OK in the News window, then Close the preferences window.

The last 10 posted topics should now show up in your My Web section. Enjoy!

JakeD
02-17-05, 05:08PM
What if I don't want to pay for Trillian Pro? Will you take me to Juarez? Where we can enjoy a sunny evening on the beach drinking mai tais and chuckling at Luis, the bumbling yet comedically adorable cabana boy?

Bane
02-17-05, 05:11PM
Then you can also do the same in FireFox with Live Bookmarks. Just click the little ribbon in the lower right corner (or whatever it is on the default skin), and it will add a everchanging bookmark folder that will have the last 10 threads bookmarked inside.

Luis is mine bitch.

Boozer
02-17-05, 05:21PM
Is trillian and FireFox the only things you can do that with?

whitecrow
02-17-05, 05:55PM
succumb to teh fox, boozer....resistence is FUTILE!

Evilpoptart
02-17-05, 09:00PM
jake if you want "Teh Pro" 3.0, lemme know, we can fix that problem

Bane
02-17-05, 09:04PM
Boozer, there are other RSS Readers on the market. I use feeddemon, but if you need a free one you could try Pluck or any of the others listed http://www.download.com/RSS-Tools/3150-9227_4-0.html?tag=dir

Unforgiven
02-17-05, 09:58PM
Is trillian and FireFox the only things you can do that with?

Damn near everything has a RSS reader nowadays, actually. Trillian, Firefox, specialized programs that just do RSS, Mail clients, etc