含蓄的张扬

Since I was blogging on the msn space, it may be very convenient to just check out updates for new stuff over the live messenger. After this upgrade, to track the updates of my blog, obviously you cannot use the nice live messenger, however you can use one of your favourite rss feed reader. Many of the feed readers are already included in the browser like the smart bookmark of firefox or the free feed reader in maxthon. I think QQ also bundled one rss reader although I’m not one hundred percent sure. If you have never used a rss reader before, I would suggest you start using one, not only to track my and other people’s blog posts, but also very useful to get other updates of any information sources that supports rss feed. It’s very convenient as almost every site has rss feeds available. This blog post will give you a very basic guide of how to use my favourite rss reader — Google Reader.

First of all, you need to sign up for a Google Reader account here if you does not have one. After you have the Google Reader account and signed in, you will see an interface similar to the one below.

If you are a firefox user, subscribing to any site that enables rss can be extremely easy. When you enters the website that has rss enabled, you can see a little icon on the address bar as follow:

After you click on the little subscribe button and choose “subscribe to …”. You’ll see the interface that ask you to choose what application you want to use for the subscription, choose “Google” in this case, and then the site is automatically added to your Google Reader subscription.

If you do not use firefox, you may need to find out the subscription page yourself, look for the rss button on the website. The rss icon on my blog site is located here:

Click on this link and then copy the url in the address bar, which in this case will be “http://www.realstraw.com/blog/feed/atom”. Go to your Google Reader page, log in and click the add subscription button on the left side, and paste the rss feed address you just copied and click “Add”. Ok, you are done, now you could just tracking the updates using just Google Reader now. You can also do this for your favourite websites and tracking their updates.

Hope you will find this guide useful