PadCaster 1.0 review

PadCaster is a command line tool that converts MacPAD application description files to RSS 2.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 23K Developer: Ken Ferry Price: $0.00 Updated: 27 Mar 2006

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PadCaster is a command line tool that converts MacPAD application description files to RSS 2.0 feeds. A MacPAD file describes one application. Thus, the feed PadCaster produces provides RSS software update notifications. Fraser Speirs coined the term Appcast for such feed.

For developers, this is a convenient way to offer an RSS update feed for your software. For users, this lets you create and subscribe to RSS feeds for applications that support MacPAD. This requires an aggregator that can use scripts as feeds, such as the excellent NetNewsWire 2.

What's New:
Template tweaks.