Monday, February 27, 2012

How to set up to receive RSS feed?

If any website has a RSS feed, it is possible to set up a mechanism to receive the feed automatically Here are several methods to setup the feed.

IE8 - other version should be similar

  1. Navigate to a site that has RSS feed.
  2. Click View on the Menu Bar, move down to Toolbars. Make sure the Command Bar is checked.
  3. Click View on the Menu Bar again and move down to Toolbars. Make sure the Favorite bar is checked.
  4. Next to the Home icon (a house picture) on the Command Bar should be the RSS button.  The Commend Bar is located right above the browser window at the same level as the tabs.
  5. Click the small downward arrow next to the RSS button will bring you as list of pages. Choose the page with the word 'Feed' on it.
  6. On the bottom of the yellow box (the box on the top) click 'Subscribe to this feed'.
  7. Enter the name of the site.  Create in the default folder 'Feeds'.  If you like, you can also check the 'Add to Favorite Bar' box.  Click Subscribe button.
  8. To verify, click the Favorite button (the one with a star and the word Favorite).
  9. A window will open with three tabs.
  10. Click the 'Feeds' tab will show you all the feeds you subscribe to.
  11. Click the one you are interested.

Firefox 10.0.2 on Apple PC - Others might be the same

  1. Navigate to a site that has RSS feed.
  2. On the Menu Bar click Bookmarks.
  3. Move down to 'Subscribe to This Page' and choose the feed that you are viewing.
  4. A new window will appear.  Click the 'Subscribe Now' button to use the default: Live Bookmarks.
  5. Decide where you want to place the RSS feed.  Suggest to use Bookmarks Toolbar.

Safari

  1. Navigate to a site that has RSS feed.
  2. Click the RSS button on the right side of the Address Bar and then click the feed.
  3. This will bring you to the feed screen.
  4. Click the + sign on the left of the Address bar.
  5. Click the up/down arrow on the right side of the box next to the word Safari.
  6. Select the Bookmark bar and click ADD.
  7. The feed is now added to the Bookmark bar.

Apple Mail

  1. Click File on the menu and select 'Add RSS Feed'.
  2. Check the 'Specify the URL for a feed' radio button.
  3. Type in the RSS feed URL from the site.  This is usually www.siteaddress.com/feed.
  Visit our site at vegi.ws

No comments: