If you want to keep on top of news stories and new products, but don’t have the time to trawl the internet, web feeds are the answer. Web feeds enable you to take headlines from hundreds of sites and collect them in one place, so you can browse through your favourite news or information sources in minutes.
There are hundreds of web-based feed readers on the internet, but Internet Explorer 7 enables you to integrate your favourite feeds with your day-to-day activity. Here's how.
1. Getting Started
Log on to your chosen web site and check that it publishes a feed. If it does there will be an orange icon on the toolbar. Click this to add it to your feeds. If no feed is available, try our feed at windowsvistamagazine.co.uk
2. Subscribe
When you click the orange icon a new screen will appear with all the feed stories listed, so that you can check you’re signing up to the right feed. Click Subscribe to this feed and the feed will be added to the Favorites list.
3. View Services
Click the Favorites center icon, represented by a star. A submenu in this option called Feeds will show a list of the services you’ve subscribed to. These will appear in a list, and each set of headlines can be viewed quickly and easily.
4. Find Your Feeds
If you manage your contacts and diary using Microsoft Outlook 2007 , then the feeds are added automatically. In the Outlook items list is a subheading called RSS Feeds; expand this to find all your news sources.
5. Organise Stories
Outlook 2007 gives you even more power over your feeds than Internet Explorer 7. You have the ability to do keyword searches on the feeds to pick out stories with greater relevance. You can also sort stories into different categories.
6. Save In Folders
Using Outlook 2007 to view your feeds also means you can save stories into different folders. News items can be dragged and dropped into your notes folder or inbox. You can then email the story to a friend, or keep it for future reference.
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