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How To Use Rss Feeds! A small tutorial on RSS feeds usage

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Hi all.

RSS feeds are the new trends in the Information Technology Field!

 

What IS RSS:

 

RSS is a protocol, an application of XML, that provides an open method of syndicating and aggregating Web content. Using RSS files, you can create a data feed that supplies headlines, links, and article summaries from your Web site. Users can have constantly updated content from web sites delivered to them via a news aggregator, a piece of software specifically tailored to receive these types of feeds.

 

More details Some More

 

How To Read Those RSS Feeds on IE7

 

You can find one Orange button on IE7 like this Posted Image

If the site does not have any RSS feeds, that will appear as gray Icon only!

Click on that Icon on toolbar of IE7 if its in orange Color:

 

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That will display the formatted RSS feeds page (XML format) with latest posts in IE7 window, like this

 

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Click On that "Subscribe To Feed" link on top. That will open one window Like this!

Click "Subscribe" button on the window!

 

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That will add the feed link to the Feeds window!

You can read the latest posts by simply selecting the feed on this window!

 

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How To Read RSS Feeds on Firefox!

 

 

Firefox 1.5.0+ needs some extensions to read the RSS feeds!

But Firefox 2 has some built in RSS feeds reader!

Im now saying about Firefox 1.5!

 

Here Two methods are there! Either use Firefox Live Bookmarks or install Some extensions for that one!

 

If you go for Live Bookmarks tool, Open the site with some RSS support!

Click the RSS feed Icon on addressbar Posted Image

 

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Then select One folder and press OK

 

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The Latest Feed with latest Topics List can be found there at Bookmarks

 

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< As there is some limit for inserting the images to the post, I'm not going to edit the above post! Sorry for double posting :P >

 

Here is the methods to read RSS feeds using Extensions on Firefox!

The following are the famous RSS Reader extensions!

 

Try to install any one of them:

 

Sage

infoRSS

(Many RSS extensions are there! I prefer to use Sage, as it is the simplest One :P )

 

After installing Sage, pressing Alt+S will open Sage window like this:

There you can view Latest news from Sage!

Select Options>> Manage Feeds List

 

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That wil open Sage Bookmarks window like this! Click "New Bookmark"

 

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Enter the feed url there in the window and press "Enter"

 

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Thats all friends!

 

You can view the latest feeds by Opening the Sage window and clicking the new Bookmarks link like this:

 

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Google Reader

 

 

A new Tool From Google! Google Reader!

Here is the site link: https://www.google.com/reader/about/

Here als you can read the RSS feeds!

You only need a Google Account!

SignIn with The Google ID and password!

That will show Google Reader like this:

 

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Click the + symbol on that Add subscription link!

That will open one testbox like this

 

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Enter the main URL there! That will search for the RSS feeds in that page and will automatically adds them to the RSS reader!

You can preview the latest posts in the site by clicking the Site heading itself!

 

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