Subscribe via RSS.If you don’t know what those links mean or what they do don’t worry. Here’s a simple guide to making your life a whole lot easier.
A feed reader is a program that sits and waits for messages. It’s similar to an email client but instead of waiting for mail it waits for updates on a web page. Feeds are links to information that your feed reader interprets so it knows where to go to fetch the new blog posts, web page updates or whatever else. To get a feed to work you need two things. A feed reader and a feed URL.
I like to keep things simple and have an external program to handle my feeds, you can get feeds right in FireFox but I think it’s messy and harder to find new post.
I use www.feedreader.com. Go there and download the software. After it’s installed a shiny new icon should appear in your task bar (It looks like a box). Open it up and simply drag the orange icon above into the window. Tada, you’re done. It may ask you to name the feed or some other trivial things but for the most part that’s it. Click OK and you’re done.
Now the feed reader sits quietly in the background and if there’s a new post it will inform you about it. This way you can stay right on the edge of all that’s new and good and don’t have to have a whole load of messy bookmarks for your favorite blogs!