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Today's RSS power user tip is a modification of a [Lifehacker tip][1] I ran across recently. Some information, like job and apartment listings is extremely time sensitive, miss an announcement and you could miss out on that rent-controlled beauty in the East Village.
The Lifehacker article linked above outlines how to get RSS feeds for Craig's List searches. Just enter your search criteria and look for the RSS link at the bottom of the page. Of course you need not use Craig's List, any similar service that offers RSS feeds for searches would work as well.
But rather than refreshing your news reader obsessively, why not just use [Yahoo's Alerts][2] or a similar service to send those messages to directly to your phone so you can find out about new apartment listings even when you're away from the computer?
To use Yahoo Alerts just login to your Yahoo account and head to the alerts page. Click the "feed/blog" category and paste in the url from Craig's List.
If you haven't already, set up your Yahoo Alert's account to send messages to your mobile phone. Enable your new feed to send SMS text messages and you're done. Using Yahoo Alerts you can limit the number of messages that get forwarded to your phone since, depending on your mobile plan, this may cost a bit of money.
Now you can get new apartment listings (or job leads or any number of other things) even when you're away from your computer.
[1]: http://www.lifehacker.com/software/top/technophilia-craigslist-for-power-users-204312.php "Craigslist for power users"
[2]: http://alerts.yahoo.com/main.php?view=splash_signup_signin&.done=http%3A%2F%2Falerts.yahoo.com%2Fmain.php%3Fview%3Dblogs "Yahoo Alerts"
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