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• Rssowl feed status icons install#

Isn't all described above too complicated? I don't think I have time for it", you may say. When it comes to computers things are easier done than said… The Wikidot Community maintains a list of recommended RSS readers - take a look at it. Otherwise clicking the orange icon will subscribe you in the browser's built-in RSS readers and most browsers do not have good RSS readers. (Somewhere in the "Options"/ "Settings" menu). Note that you must set your RSS reader to be the reader by default.

Notification happens according to the options of your particicular reader - usually a small pop-up window, sound alert, animation in the icon in the system tray, etc. This means that the address of the page has already entered into your RSS reader and the reader can track it and notify you when there is something new. When you click on it what happens is that "you get subscribed to the RSS feed of the page". Maybe you have already seen it but paid no attention to it. If the web page was made to support RSS this tiny orange icon: should appear next to the web address. Once you have chosen a specific "RSS reader" ("how do I choose which?" - will get to this later), downloaded it, installed it, adjusted its settings, you can go to a web page you would like to monitor for changes. :) The good news is that you need to do it only once and that once you do it, you'd never regret the effort.

Rssowl feed status icons install#

"Ough - so I'd have to download something, then install it, then adjust settings and so on…!?" - Yes. RSS is especially useful in blogs and forums because it can notify you as soon as someone has replied to a post of yours.Īnd how exactly do I get to know when something has changed in a page?įirst of all you need to have a type of program called "RSS reader". Instead of opening a page several times a day to check if there's something new, use RSS - it will check automatically per given time interval and play a sound and a pop-up window on your screen to let you know. new content was added or something was deleted or someone wrote a comment, etc. RSS is a thing by which you can know when a page has changed - e.g. What can I do with this? How do I use it? Do I really need it? Can't I do without it?