How to subscribe to an RSS News feed

RSS feeds are amazing! Why do I say this? In the early 90’s if you wanted new sent to you most people subscribed to mailing lists. People quickly found that if you were subscribed to several lists your email could become out of control.

Enter RSS Feeds.

RSS feeds allows a user to “jump” on and start receiving passive news alerts. It also allows you to get content without having to look at ads on the original webpage. Another amazing feature is if you find the info is no longer relevant to you anymore it is easy to remove yourself from it because you control what RSS feeds you want to read. If you were part of a mailing list it can be very hard getting off of it and even then sometimes you never know who now all has your email address.

Today I will be showing you how to add the Jared Heinrichs Blog to several programs. Please feel free to use what ever you want.

Internet Explorer

Go to: http://jaredheinrichs.com/feed

Click on “Subscribe to this feed”.

Click Subscribe.

To read the feed just click on the Favorites Menu. Then click the “Feeds” tab. Click on “Jared Heinrichs”.

Firefox

Very much like IE go to the http://jaredheinrichs.com/feed page.

Click Subscribe Now.

To view the feed just click on “Jared Heinrichs”.

 

Google.com/ig

Go to “http://google.com/ig”. Sign into your google account. If you don’t have one you should create one if you want the feed on multiple machines.

Click on “Add stuff”

Click on “Add feed or gadgette”.

Enter “http://jaredheinrichs.com/feed”

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