RSS feeds question

Scott spbz at cox.net
Sun Dec 11 09:21:53 MST 2005


Mozilla Thunderbird has the ability to parse and display RSS feeds as 
well.  File->New Account->RSS News & Blogs->Next->Account 
Name->Next->Finish  Now in the left pane is a new entity called 'News & 
Blogs' unless you named it something else.  Click on it will reveal 
settings on the right pane.  'Manage subscriptions' is what you want, 
click on 'Add' and enter the url to the feed in the 'Feed URL' and click 
'Ok'.  It should then proceed to connect and get the feed.  Now you can 
go back to the left pane and click on it and read the entries as if they 
were email.  It works great with syndicated photoalbums too, like those 
on livejournal and gallery/gallery2-based albums, among others.

-Scott

Matt Alexander wrote:

> Kevin wrote:
>
>> On 12/10/05 9:46 PM, "Alan Dayley" <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I am behind the times on RSS and Atom feeds so I am confused by this.
>>> What tool does one use to get and read RSS feeds?  Is this not a
>>> Firefox/Browser function?
>>>     
>>
>>
>> There's probably an easier way, but here's what I did in Firefox 
>> 1.0.7.  I
>> right clicked the RSS 2.0 icon and selected "Copy Link Location".  I 
>> went to
>> the Firefox Bookmarks menu and selected "Manage Bookmarks".  I then 
>> selected
>> "New Live Bookmark" from the File menu.  I pasted in the URL and 
>> named it
>> PLUG.  Now I have a bookmark named PLUG that is actually a menu 
>> populated
>> with the PLUG news items.
>>
>> ...Kevin
>>
>>
>>   
>
>
> Yep, this is handy for sites like Slashdot.  You can have a live 
> bookmark in your personal toolbar and click on it to see the current 
> slashvertisements, I mean, umm, articles.
> ~M
>
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