hi,
last time I checked fire fox did not use the windows news feeds. not sure
why because this is a standard to insure that all program sink subscription
data. so you would need to use internet explorer to subscribe to the feeds.
thunder bird will use the fire fox feed list and will allow you to view your
rss feeds in the manor I described for outlook and windows live mail.
this was the last time I checked. I am not a fire fox nor a thunder bird
user.
hth
Jim Grimsby JR.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Tekell
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 4:24 PM
To: jim grimsby Jr. ; gw-info
Subject: Sideline discussion on RSS from Re: We don't all use Twitter
Would using this method work well for a Firefox user though? I also
prefer off the shelf products whenever possible, but I also prefer to
keep the number of MS products on my PC to a minimum, an old deeply
ingrained prejudice that might be outdated I admit, and to use open
source or freeware/shareware products from smaller companies whenever
possible. I didn't move from AVG to MSE for my security application
until I became absolutely convinced that MSE was just too much better
in functionality, accessibility and in use of system resources to
continue to ignore it.
I have never even allowed any of the Windows Live updates to be
downloaded since they were first put up on the MS update page. For
that matter, I haven't even let the Search 4.0 update download on my
latest install of XP, though I did try it before the last time I had
to reinstall XP from scratch.
Unlike some who prefer to use a minimum of MS products, I am not
completely closed to giving their latest a try, after all the years
of being the person who had to deal with the fallout caused by
Outlook security problems experienced by everyone around me, I can't
bring myself to have anything with that name on my computer even
though I know they fixed the problems years ago, but other than that,
I am always willing to consider the options. The big issue for me is
whether going this way would force me to go back to IE as my main
browser. IE 8 improved things and 9 will probably improve more, but I
just find Firefox infinitely more responsive, flexible, and generally
superior in all the areas most important to me and the quirks and
bugs of Firefox bother me much less than those of IE, though that
might just be from me being more accustomed to them.
But whatever application or browser add on/plug in one uses, I really
think RSS is a major boon to blind users, I am subscribed to over 250
feeds right now and using this method allows me to access so much
more news, data, discussion and entertainment than I could ever
access if I had ten times as much free time as I have. I have gotten
to the point where I find interesting or useful sites that don't have
any RSS feeds offputting and have started emailing site managers of
such sites to request them. Oh, on top of all the other advantages
mentioned on RSS, as I said, I am subscribed to over 250 feeds, but I
don't have to check them every day. Unlike subscribing to an email
list, if I don't check my feeds for a time, the list of entries just
moves along without me, at worst I miss some entries by not checking,
while if I ignore what comes in from an email subscription, the
unread stuff piles up in my inbox.
Regards,
Chris
At 04:40 PM 2/23/2011, jim grimsby Jr. wrote:
well as for me I try to advise people to use off the shelf stuff verses
using a package created for the blind. so I recommend windows live mail
the older one not 2011 or outlook 2007 or higher. all articles are
displayed just like e-mail messages. one advantage to this is it makes the
forwarding of rss articles via e-mail quite simple. these clients use the
windows internet explorer news feeds section so it is quite easy to sign up
for the feeds you want and have them available within the client. have not
used it for a time but windows vista had a real neet rss gagit. very
functional. even though I prefer the mail style interface.
hth
Jim Grimsby JR.
Skype name: Jim.Grimsby
Skype number: 909-498-4711.
E-mail: [email protected]
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-----Original Message----- From: Chris Tekell
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:51 PM
To: Tom ; [email protected]
Subject: Re: We don't all use Twitter
Not to nitpick, but RSS isn't social networking. It is simply a means
to simplify the flow of information. I can understand folks not
wanting to get into Twitter, but to my way of thinking, RSS is
something inherently useful for the blind. As long as your feed
reader is accessible, you can get to all of the new news stories,
articles and even sale items on commercial pages without having to
dig through all of the drek on the sites' main pages. I wasn't
previously aware that there was a way to get a feed from someone's
Twitter feed though, learn something new every day. I recommend
WebIE's accessible RSS reader, it works as a two frame setup, the
first pane is a list of subscribed feeds and one only needs to press
enter to jump to the selected feed and update the list of stories and
entries. Then one only needs to hit enter on whatever entry one is
interested in and the article is opened in your browser. No need to
wade through all of the junk on the CNN front page, just a nice list
of all of the headlines, and when you are through, you shift tab back
to the list of feeds and find the next one you want to check.
I guess some people still prefer to do things the old fashioned way,
but personally, I prefer the ability to get to the real content quicker.
Regards,
Chris
At 08:04 AM 2/23/2011, Tom wrote:
I agree with the below comment!
Tom
** Message Separater **
>Come on, Aaron. It only takes a second to send your tweet to
>the list. I am another who doesn't want to mess with Twitter
>and I don't want the RSS feed either. We're not all into
>social networking.
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