Thursday, October 04, 2007

RSS feeds


I subscribed to Bloglines some time ago but seldom remember to go over and see what is there. This results in big numbers of unread posts. That is why I prefer Firefox or Opera, both of which embed the feed right into the browser.

Bloglines now has a new and improved and beta version which I just looked at today and quite like. It is designed for Firefox, not Explorer but it offers several improved features than can be seen even in Explorer. In the words of Gary Price:

+ Look for the personalization options by clicking the
“Settings” link in the header near the top of the page.
+ You can now choose
between Bloglines Classic or Bloglines Beta mark read behavior. You can either
mark individual posts as read or mark the entire folder as read. This is
something many people asked for.
+ Since the Bloglines beta offers various
views, “Remember View” will do just that by simply selecting the view you prefer
for each feed. The current default is to have all feeds stick with one view.
+ CSS Support. If the publisher uses Cascading Style Sheets in their page
design Bloglines will show them by default. Again, all of these options under
the “Settings” header.
+ Also look for two settings specifically for iPhone
users.
+ Finally, Sorting Feeds. You’ll notice this is no longer a global
preference available from the settings page. Now when you click sort Oldest/Sort
News is changes the sorting view for all feeds

(http://www.resourceshelf.com/2007/10/02/bloglines-beta-roll-out-continues-open-id-support-more-personalization-and-new-mobile-version/)

1 comment:

23 Things Staff said...

I'll have to try out the "feeds in browser" idea at home in Firefox. Thanks for the tip.