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RSS or Really Simple Syndication feeds
bring automatically updated information straight to
your desktop. You can monitor news, blogs, job listings,
personals, and classifieds using simple software to
subscribe to articles distributed by many of your favorite
Websites. ewineasia.com is pleased to make a RSS feed
available to keep you updated of our latest wines and
products. ewineasia.com offers feeds updating you of
our new wines, accessories, books and our forthnightly
new featured wines. You can easily identify website
providing RSS feed by a small button that looks like
 or  . However, if you click one of these links, you will
most likely get a page full of code in your browser.
To properly read the feed, you need an RSS reader. Here's
how to get and use one.
1. Get
a RSS Reader
You need to download
a RSS reader in order to read your news feed. You can
download RSS reader from the list of RSS reader. There are two main
types of RSS reader. Standalone applications are simply
programs that process RSS feeds for you. The advantage
of a standalone is that it is a new application that
you can populate as needed. The disadvantage: it's one
more application to have open on your desktop. The other
type is the plug-in. This application works within an
existing program such as Microsoft Outlook or Internet
Explorer. The advantage of having RSS work with an existing
application is that you are likely to have Outlook or
IE open already, so the reader becomes a new component
of that application. The disadvantage is that if you
have a lot of e-mail folders or bookmarks already established,
you may not want to overload your application with daily
feeds of new information.
2. Add channels and channel group
Most RSS readers come preloaded with
a bunch of channels, but you will want to add your own.
Most programs allow you to create new channel groups
to organize your channels. To add a channel, for example,
click on in ewineasia.com RSS page. Right-click or use CTRL+C
to copy the URL from the address bar of your browser,
which should show a page full of XML code. Go back to
your newsreader, choose the category where you want
the new subscription to live, and select New or New
Channel from the File menu. In most cases, the URL you
copied should automatically be pasted into the URL field
in the New Channel wizard. If not, you can cut and paste
the URL yourself.
3. Customize
When you accumulate
lots of articles from your various feeds, it can become
difficult to find specific information. Fortunately,
newsreaders include useful tools for finding articles.
A Filter tool will show only articles that contain a
keyword you specify. This may also be labeled Search.
Some readers include
the ability to set a watch, an automatic search through
all your incoming feeds for a specific keyword. For
example, you could enter wine as a watch. If any article
in any feed you subscribe to mentions wine, the article
will be included in the Watch list. To set a watch,
open the File menu, choose New, then select New Watch.
Enter a title for it in the dialog box that comes up,
then enter a search term in the keyword field. Click
Add to put the search term into the keyword list. Click
OK, and your watch will be active, and it will appear
in the Watch list in the left panel. The Watch panel
shows how many articles have come in with each keyword.
Click any of your watches to see the articles it has
caught.
4. Prune your feeds
Eventually, you'll
probably end up with more feeds than you want or can
read regularly. In most readers, to delete a feed you're
no longer interested in, you simply delete its title.
Then your RSS reader won't seek out that information
anymore, and you won't get any content from the publisher
unless you go to its site or resubscribe to the feed.
The above article
is adapted from cnet.com.
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