Receiving Free RSS Feeds To Your Desktop
To fully utilise RSS feeds, you need to be able to receive and interpret
them. To do this, you need a Feed
Reader. Following this link will take you to a web site from which
you can download a free Feed Reader. This tutorial focuses on adding a
link for the reader to feed from.
It is assumed that you have downloaded and installed the Feed Reader.
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Start the program. You should see a dialog similar
to that shown below.
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| 2. |
To add a feed, click on the 'New Feed'
button.
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| 3. |
This will bring up a new dialog, into which you will paste the feed url that the supplier
of the feed will have given you.
After pasting the feed URL.
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| 4. |
Click on the <Next> button.
You will see the following
Type in a name for the feed, and click on the <Finish>
button. |
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If at a later stage, you want to edit the details for this feed,
then, locate the feed in the program dialog, right click, and a drop
down will appear.
Click on the 'Feed Properties'
option, and edit the details. |
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Your feed will be updated and the information will be listed in
the right hand pane for you to view, under the Date and Headline headings.
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| 7. |
You can refresh the feeds by clicking on the 'Update'
button.
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Other RSS Tools
RSS Tool used for receiving content to
your web site.
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