Want to know when something new shows up?

May 5, 2008

I know that you all want to know the very minute that something new (a post, gallery, or comment) shows up on this site. Unfortunately, I’m not going to send out a mass email to all of you whenever that happens. But fortunately, this thing called rss does it for me automatically. All you have to do is click the “RSS” link over there on the sidebar under the “Meta” heading. Then you can pick your favorite feed reader and voilĂ , now you know whenever there is new stuff.

If you have no idea what a feed reader is, I have three simple steps for you:

1. Download Firefox (unless you already have it of course).

2. Open the news page in Firefox and click the RSS link. (Because I changed my feeds around, you actually should click the rss icon in the address bar. It’s the blue box:

Click this to Subscribe.

3. In the drop down box that appears right next to the text “Subscribe to this feed using,” choose Live Bookmarks and then click the subscribe now button.

4. A dialogue box will pop up asking you what you want to call this bookmark. Type in something catchy that you will remember and click Add.

That’s it. Okay I lied, there were four steps, but was it really that complicated? Now you have a button on your bookmarks bar called whatever catchy phrase you named it, and when you click on it, it will show you the newest stuff from this website.

PS: Now that you have Firefox, you should start using it instead of Internet Explorer. If you want to know why, just check this book out from the library.

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One Response to 'Want to know when something new shows up?'

  1. By Jessica on May 9, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    That is real interesting. I’ll have to try it out. Thanks Parker!

    –Jess–





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