Radar Wizard

News Radars (or RSS Mashups) are subject-specific RSS-based information channels. They allow aggregating the Web articles, news, blog and message board’s posts, press releases, bids, newsgroup’s threads, images, audio and video.

There are no limitations on the Radar’s subject. It can be as simple as “HD DVD”or a bit more complicated as “high-end HD DVD”or as complicated as“HD DVD or Blu-Ray” or even a bit weird as “HD DVD -Toshiba”. The Radars can be used to monitor a best deal on eBay, to see how is your competitor doing, to keep track of your industry’s most recent trends, to observe how the Web is buzzing upon a new music album, blockbuster movie or cool gadget’s release or just look for new job positions in your area. The list of Radars’ applications is very long to mention all of them.

However, you may ask - “It is all sounds good and all but how can I create these Radars, should I understand RSS or look for feeds all across the Web. I have no time for it or donâ’t know how to do it”.

We realized that you may have those preservations and delivered Radar Wizard - an online tool, which makes the Radars creation as easy as just regular Web Search.

All you need to do is specify a keyword or key phrase, which represents your Radars’ subject, choose Feed Type (News, Blogs, Video etc.) or All, generate and preview the feeds, select or unselect them, and then publish your Radar.

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The whole process will take no longer than a minute. The more detailed description of Radar generation is at Radar Wizard Help.

To see high resolution version of Radar Wizard tutorial, click here. We just recently added new features such as more advanced Selection Criteria, Firefox support, ability to add feeds to existing Radars, generating Widgets and new Feed Types (Message Boards, Amazon, Bids, Images, Torrents, RSS and Social Sites).

The service is free and all you need to do is to register.

Start using Radar Wizard now!

When your Radar is created, you can check it out on My Radars page. The Radar indexing to create Tag Cloud will be done within 24 hours.

If you want to add some other feeds, you can use Radar Admin tool (this tool also requires the registration).

If you have any problems with either tool or have any questions/suggestions, please contact our support.

Using Radar Wizard

Our Radar Wizard allows you to create or edit your own radar in seven simple steps:

  1. Nine types of feeds will be generated for your radar by default: News, Blogs, Web Search, Articles, Video, Amazon, Forums, Images and Bids. Select desired mix of feeds by checking or un-checking Feed Type checkboxes on the top of the page.
  2. Enter radar search keyword or phrase, e.g. swords or “archeological discovery”+ Greece , and click Generate button. Feed items will be displayed below in the preview pane.
  3. Review the results to ensure your selection criteria finds what you expect. You can modify search criteria at any time and click on Generate button again to refresh the results. You can also exclude unwanted feed types by un-checking a checkbox beside appropriate feed type in the preview pane.
  4. Once you are satisfied with the quality and relevance of returned feed items and you are creating new Radar, you could click on Publish New Radar button on the bottom of the page. A floating page for entering your radar description will be displayed.
  5. Enter radar name and radar description, and click on Save button. Congratulations, your radar is now created! Message appears. To access your new radar, click on My Radars link located on the top menu bar. You can also access your published radars from any RadarFarms page by clicking on My Radars links in the menu. Once the radar is created you can modify it’s description, add or edit RSS feeds, and attach them to your radar using RadarFarms administration module. To access it, click on My Admin link located on the top menu bar.
  6. If you would like to add the returned feed items to your existing Radar, click on Update Existing Radar button on the bottom of the page. A floating page for editing your radar description will be displayed.
  7. Edit radar name and radar description or keep them, and click on Save button. Congratulations! You successfully updated your Radar message appears.

Remember: Crrent Radar Wizard version doesn’t support Firefox browser.

There are two advanced features available to Radar Wizard users:

Advanced Selection

Advanced Selection feature allows you to create or edit your own radar using the following options:

  1. Including all the words – the return feed’s items contain ALL the search terms you type in.
  2. Including an exact phrase – the returned feed’s items contain the exact phrase you type in
  3. Including at least one of the words – the returned feed’s items contain at least one of the words you type in.
  4. Excluding all of these words - the returned feed’s items do NOT contain any of the words you type in.
  5. Domain with three (3) sub-options:
    • Any– no constraints on source of the returned feed’s items
    • Including – the feed’s items are returned only from one domain (e.g., www.cnn.com)
    • Excluding – the feed’s items are returned only from all sources but one domain (e.g., www.cnn.com)
      1. Open a page file where you want to install your editor of choice.
      2. Find a place in the HTML or PHP code where you’d like your widget to appear.
      3. Copy and paste your radar widget code below into the file and save it.

      • When you chosen the advanced selection options, click on  Generate button. Feed items will be displayed below in the preview pane. Review the results to ensure your selection criteria finds what you expect. You can modify search criteria at any time and click on Generate button again to refresh the results. Then you could add the returned feed’s items to your new or existing Radar (see item 4-7 from Radar Wizard help above)

      Remember: At least one Including condition should be filled in.

      Widget Generation

      Radar Widget is a snippet of code that can be embedded in any HTML or PHP page on your site or blog to display fifteen (15) most recent items from your radar, which is hosted on RadarFarms:



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