Yesterday I posted about some of my favorite blogging tools that I couldn’t imagine living without of which FeedDemon was right up there at the top of the list. As with any good tool though we are always looking for ways to improve it to make our work even easier.

Now as feature complete as FeedDemon is there were a couple of things things that I felt were missing that while they weren’t deal breakers they sure would simplify my workflow just a tad. The main one being the addition of of things like action buttons for services like reddit and StumbleUpon. Little did I know how easy implementing them would be but my morning mail held a comment from Nick Bradbury; the author of FeedDemon, that what I was looking for was a simple as a couple of lines in an XML file. For a hint on how it was done he pointed me to a post by Glenn Slaven who had posted a snippet of code that connected FeedDemon to the new Instapaper bookmarking service.

So following Glenn’s example here are two sample for hooking FeedDemon into posting to reddit and StumbleUpon. Now the first sample is geared more to posting to the custom Elite Tech News reddit of which I am a part of so your XML code may have to be adjusted to fit your own needs. Anyway on to the reddit XML code:

   1: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

   2: <fdsendto template=”http://reddit.com/r/l33t/submit?url={url}&title={title}” service=”Elite Tech News Reddit” />

Place the above in a file saved with an *.xml extension - mine was saved as etn_reddit.xml - and place it in the FeedDemon\Data\SendTo folder.

For the StumbleUpon XML code you should have the following:

   1: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

   2: <fdsendto template=”http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url={url}&title={title}” service=”StumbleUpon This Post” />

This is also saved to the FeedDemon\Data\SendTo folder as a file with an *.xml extension.

FeedDemon will need to be restarted; or at least it was in my case, before these to new options will be accessible from the Send To icon which you will find as part of the icon set just under the post title:

So with a few minutes reading and a couple more getting the code in place FeedDemon once again maintains its place as an indispensable tool and the browser gets closer to permanent retirement.

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