What in the world are you talking about? We’ll I’m telling you that I truly love your blog-thoughts and I’m going to read you consistently.
So, mac friends, I ask you…Do you use the RSS feature in your mac Mail yet?? I just figured out the “show in inbox” feature several months ago and I’m loving it – so I thought I would share with my other mac family members who are dog paddling their way through the Mac’lantic like me, how all this really works.
RSS, u may know is just a simple way of saying “what’s new on this site” or “keep me informed when they post something new here.” Well, I tend to forget to go check out all my pal’s blogs and I often find myself playing catch up and reading the last 30 posts of my bestie’s life journey…omg, You had a baby? What???
I am, however, in the religious habit of knocking out that little RED number above my mac mail eagle-soaring inbox. So, I thought to myself, I wish there were a way I could just get my friends new posts into my inbox, since it’s “sooooo much trouble” now to actually click that bookmark link in my browser….so once again, the Mac’lantic life-savers came to my rescue.
I’m using Firefox (but Safari has this built in feature as well) – just go to your favorite website, like your daily news, or your favorite friends blog, and click the little blue RSS button on the right side of the web address box (or you can click ‘Bookmarks,’ then ‘Subscribe to this page’). The button looks like this in Firefox:
A drop down box appears with options, just click “Subscribe to RSS” (not sure yet if it matters which one, but I choose RSS 2.0). Click “Specify a Custom Feed URL” – the URL (or link) should already be listed in the box…THEN, this is the fun part, make sure the BOX is checked “Show in Inbox.” And Voilà! You’re done!
Now go open that little eagle-soarin’ Mail application, select View, Show Mailboxes. Look down the list in the box on the left to see the RSS folder. Open it, and you shall see your new pal’s blog, with most likely the last 10 – 20 posts (and they should have popped into your Inbox as well.) IF you want to just READ the blog post in the RSS folder instead of your inbox, right-click on the RSS box for that feed, and simply uncheck ‘show in inbox.’ happy RSS’ing.
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