Good evening chaps. In a continuing effort to streamline things on these here interwebz I have been trying to consolidate the communications into as few applications as possible.
I have lately been exploring the Google angle. I have a Gmail account but don't do a lot of emailing. I bring this up because the service also supports audio/video chat features(I made another posting last week about Google Talk) and the Google Reader function. I know there is a certain thought process on the web that says "enough Google is enough" sort of thing. Too much information about you in one person or company's hands is probably not a good thing. So I am exploring this but making no commitment to it.
One thing I have never really gotten a hand on is the whole RSS experience. I use it from Firefox via the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder". I do not activate the toolbar to save screen space. What I do is access if from the Bookmarks menu. It is pretty handy. You can scroll over any feed in the folder or a subfolder and it will give you a headline of sorts. If you like it, you click on it and it takes you to the site to read it. One thing I like about this is that I do NOT get five thousand article headers downloaded to a reader of some sort. I only mention the Google reader since it is available from the Gmail interface with a click. I recently checked it and found it had sort of grabbed onto some of my Badger and Blade RSS feeds. They were about a year old and between them and another subscription, there were 659 article headers to sort through.
What is most aggravating about this is I cannot find a way to delete these old articles from the reader. What a pain. How and why would you EVER want to sort through all that mess? Can you imagine how many headers you would have if every RSS feed from B&B was in there every day? I am probably just too dumb to figure this out but it is the same reason I ditched Opera browser. It grabbed my RSS subscriptions via Import from Firefox and it downloaded THOUSANDS of article headers. I could not make heads or tales of them. I finally deleted them all somehow and uninstalled Opera to boot.
I have searched quite a bit but cannot find a tutorial that really explains how to manage the "read" or old articles in these readers. Just a bit confusing to me really. Thanks for any help.
Regards Todd
I have lately been exploring the Google angle. I have a Gmail account but don't do a lot of emailing. I bring this up because the service also supports audio/video chat features(I made another posting last week about Google Talk) and the Google Reader function. I know there is a certain thought process on the web that says "enough Google is enough" sort of thing. Too much information about you in one person or company's hands is probably not a good thing. So I am exploring this but making no commitment to it.
One thing I have never really gotten a hand on is the whole RSS experience. I use it from Firefox via the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder". I do not activate the toolbar to save screen space. What I do is access if from the Bookmarks menu. It is pretty handy. You can scroll over any feed in the folder or a subfolder and it will give you a headline of sorts. If you like it, you click on it and it takes you to the site to read it. One thing I like about this is that I do NOT get five thousand article headers downloaded to a reader of some sort. I only mention the Google reader since it is available from the Gmail interface with a click. I recently checked it and found it had sort of grabbed onto some of my Badger and Blade RSS feeds. They were about a year old and between them and another subscription, there were 659 article headers to sort through.
What is most aggravating about this is I cannot find a way to delete these old articles from the reader. What a pain. How and why would you EVER want to sort through all that mess? Can you imagine how many headers you would have if every RSS feed from B&B was in there every day? I am probably just too dumb to figure this out but it is the same reason I ditched Opera browser. It grabbed my RSS subscriptions via Import from Firefox and it downloaded THOUSANDS of article headers. I could not make heads or tales of them. I finally deleted them all somehow and uninstalled Opera to boot.
I have searched quite a bit but cannot find a tutorial that really explains how to manage the "read" or old articles in these readers. Just a bit confusing to me really. Thanks for any help.
Regards Todd
