Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Power To Change Your Life - RSS Feeds

While this is primarily a food blog, from time to time, I will let you know about things that are so important that I just can't help myself from telling everyone I know (and those I don't).
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Here's an example...
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What if I told you that there was something incredibly simple that you could do that would accomplish the following:
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1) Make sure you never miss an article on your favorite website (this one, perhaps?)
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2) Conveniently organize all the websites you read
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3) Save you at least 25% of the time you normally spend checking your favorite sites

My friends, all this can be accomplished, completely free, in about 30 minutes.

The amazing application that will change your life is called an RSS Reader. Basically, it functions as a single space in which you can view all the websites that you read. When an update is made to the website, your RSS Reader will update itself and list that new article as unread.

To set up the reader, simply go to https://www.google.com/reader and fill out your settings. There are many other competing RSS Readers, but this one is clean and easy to use.

From there you can head to all the websites you enjoy reading and click on the orange icon that automatically subscribes you to the RSS feed. You can also find RSS feeds through Google Reader itself by using the search function. Unless you are a particularly voracious reader, the entire process will take you about 15 minutes.


Your new best friend

I promise you that after a few days of going to your RSS Reader to view websites, you will wonder why you've been wasting your time all these years typing in URLs.

Trust me on this one, I wouldn't bother writing about it if it weren't incredible.

You can even subscribe to this blog. Just click on the links in the upper left hand corner and choose your RSS Reader.

1 comment:

Craig said...

Welcome to 1999.

Did you know you can read the comment on your blog over RSS?

Here you go:
http://edacious1.blogspot.com/feeds/2925149798244975376/comments/default