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Understanding RSS in Safari « aGEEKspot — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:14:13 +0000

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By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:11:01 +0000

@Matt
Readers, I had some off site emails with Matt, to narrow this down. Turns out, his mouse software programs a mouse button for going back in Safari.

This back feature was being unreliable when certain sites would take the cursor focus and put it into a search box or field.

My suggestion is to program the mouse button to use command-] as back, and tell it to do so only in Safari, which should allow the back button to work in all cases.

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:06:10 +0000

@Lee C, We are not suggesting you drag the RSS icon, let me repost the relevant portion:

A good place to start is with this site. Click on the blue RSS icon in the URL bar, and you will see the slimmed down RSS version of our site. You should also see the URL change to “feed://osxhelp.com/feed/”. To the left of the URL, right to the left of the “f” in “feed” is an icon. Not all icons on every site will be the same. Drag that icon into the RSS bookmark bar folder. You will be asked to give it a name; in this case, keeping the default of OS X Help should be fine.

So, the idea is that just as you drag any URL into a bookmark bar folder, drag the feed URL in there as well.

If that is not working for you, simply bookmark the RSS page, and when Safari asks you where you want to store that bookmark, simply select the RSS folder you made.

You may also want to review this post on the bookmark bar.

Please let me know if that is not clear.

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:59:04 +0000

@Bill Ruth, the general idea is that readers start at the beginning of the site and work their way to the most current post. It is something we say at the very top of the site.

I should have linked to the article though.

For other readers, if you need to manage or otherwise make changes to your RSS feeds in the bookmarks bar, simply go to your bookmark manager, and locate the item and press the delete key.

We will get to mail.app shortly, and cover in brief, RSS in email as well. Thanks for the comments

By: Bill Ruth

Bill Ruth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:07:09 +0000

Apple posted a Quicktime movie tip recently on how to in set up RSS in mail.

http://www.apple.com/business/theater/#rssinmail?sr=hotnews.rss

By: Bill Ruth

Bill Ruth — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:00:52 +0000

I know we have to build on what we learn…but it is also helpful to have each of your learning modules to be a complete, stand alone article. ie: you said you can delete any RSS feed from the (the four examples you gave) if we didn’t like them, but you didn’t explain how to in your article. I made a goof and needed to delete one. I finally figured it out , but a new reader would not have that information. you left us hanging on that tip. Thank’s for ALL your helpful tips.

By: Jim Russell

Jim Russell — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:50:25 +0000

iPhone users will find that synced (and new) rss feeds are processed for them by .mac reader. Neat.

By: Don McD

Don McD — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:57:15 +0000

great article, I finally have a beginning knowledge of rss feeds.

Thank You
Don

By: Lee Cabana

Lee Cabana — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:20:09 +0000

Help! I’ve been following your directions on RSS, but have hit a wall when you say “drag the RSS icon to the RRS Bookmark folder”. When I grab it, the RRS folder is no where to be seen. I can’t figure out how to have both the bookmark folder and the RRS icon to appear on the desktop at the same time!

By: WetcoastBob

WetcoastBob — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:08:03 +0000

Thank you for this. RSS is one of the things I have not had the time to deal with. Now I get it and it should help with the 20+ sites I hit as my “Daily Read”.
Your site is a God send. I recommend it to everyone “mac” that I know.

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:19:14 +0000

@M T Meee, thanks for telling others about the site, we really appreciate it.q

By: M T Meee

M T Meee — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:29:23 +0000

Another great column. I keep to them all as Macintosh refreshers.

Please keep them coming, Scott.

I am based in Australia and have sent your URL to other Mac users here. Thank you.

By: Matt Nikos

Matt Nikos — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:10:28 +0000

Sorry to post at the bottom of your most recent (and elegantly helpful) column regarding how to use RSS, but one thing having nothing to do with RSS continues to baffle me:

Sometimes when I’m on a website and I click on a link, I can’t seem to figure out how to get back to the link I just left: on some occasions I just click the ‘back’ button on my mouse (or the ‘BACK’ arrow at the top of the page); other times, I have to click the red ‘CLOSE’ button at the top of the page. Obviously, if I click the red ‘CLOSE’ button when I was supposed to click ‘BACK’, it shuts down the whole mess and I have to sign back on and find my way back to the website I was on. Frustrating!

For me personally, I’d love to always be able to click my ‘back’ button on my mouse, but I’d be happy with being able to do it either way, as long as it works the same each time.

Thanks for any insight you can offer. Also, is there a better place to post unrelated questions than at the bottom of the most recent column? I hate to be a hijacker!

By: Matt Nikos

Matt Nikos — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:57:43 +0000

Scott, this is really awesome. I understood parts of it before, but only enough to be dangerous. Now I think I get it. Thanks so much, and thanks for being so eager to address issues we ask about!

By: Judie

Judie — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:53:49 +0000

Thank you, Scott! I had NO CLUE about what RSS was, and now I do. I’m going to make use of it - baby steps *G*. I can’t wait to get on track with this - it should expand my use of the internet.

Judie