Friday, February 20, 2009

RSS Feeds teaches an old dog new tricks

RSS Feeds teaches an old dog new tricks. So far taking computer courses in University has taken up a lot of my time, with that said now having knowledge of RSS feeds has allowed me to keep reading the information I wish to read as well as the text books I don’t want to read . RSS feeds are simple to access and even add on your Google home page one of the easiest way is just by clicking on add a subscription on the top left side of your Google account page another easy way is to have Google toolbar and click on the orange RSS feed on the right hand side of tool bar it will then take you to the page you wish to subscribe to and then a simple box will appear that says "Subscribe to this feed in Google Reader" and yes it really is that simple The third way in which you are able to add an RSS feed to your Google Reader is to access your account page, choose Reader from the options on the screen, when you have entered your account reader page, click Subscription on the left hand side of the page and use the drop down menu to ADD a Subscription, enter in the link to the page you would like to view and as simple as that the process is complete.

This is such a simpler way to surf and access my favourite sites that I find I am using the Google Reader more and more watch day, before I became accustomed to entering my Google reader site I would be accessing multiple web sites and blogs each time I went online using my Favourites list in internet Explorer, which can be a very time consuming process since I am not able to access the internet via high-speed at my home, Dialup is painful on the best of days but when you compound the wait of using dialup access with the number of times I would access a page to find that no new information had been added, I found it could become very frustrating to surf the internet. Now that I have setup my favourite links to my Google Reader page, and it updates as these links are updated, I am saving hours of my time by just accessing the one page to get to the sites I frequent. This is leaving me more time to spend looking at new topics and finding new sites to view and study.