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__license__   = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2010, Darko Miletic <darko.miletic at gmail.com>'
'''
db.tidbits.com
'''

from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe

class TidBITS(BasicNewsRecipe):
    title                 = 'TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us'
    __author__            = 'Darko Miletic'
    description           = 'Insightful news, reviews, and analysis of the Macintosh and Internet worlds'
    publisher             = 'TidBITS Publishing Inc.'
    category              = 'news, Apple, Macintosh, IT, Internet'
    oldest_article        = 2
    max_articles_per_feed = 100
    no_stylesheets        = True
    encoding              = 'utf-8'
    use_embedded_content  = True
    language              = 'en'
    remove_empty_feeds    = True
    masthead_url          = 'http://db.tidbits.com/images/tblogo9.gif'
    extra_css             = ' body{font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif} '

    conversion_options = {
                          'comment'   : description
                        , 'tags'      : category
                        , 'publisher' : publisher
                        , 'language'  : language
                        }

    remove_attributes = ['width','height']
    remove_tags       = [dict(name='small')]
    remove_tags_after = dict(name='small')

    feeds = [
               (u'Business Apps'              , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/business.rss'     )
              ,(u'Entertainment'              , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/entertainment.rss')
              ,(u'External Links'             , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/links.rss'        )
              ,(u'Home Mac'                   , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/home.rss'         )
              ,(u'Inside TidBITS'             , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/inside.rss'       )
              ,(u'iPod & iPhone'              , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/ipod-iphone.rss'  )
              ,(u'Just for Fun'               , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/fun.rss'          )
              ,(u'Macs & Mac OS X'            , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/macs.rss'         )
              ,(u'Media Creation'             , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/creative.rss'     )
              ,(u'Networking & Communications', u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/net.rss'          )
              ,(u'Opinion & Editorial'        , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/opinion.rss'      )
              ,(u'Support & Problem Solving'  , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/support.rss'      )
              ,(u'Safe Computing'             , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/security.rss'     )
              ,(u'Tech News'                  , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/tech.rss'         )
              ,(u'Software Watchlist'         , u'http://db.tidbits.com/feeds/watchlist.rss'    )
            ]