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Adding Your Feed Subscriptions Windows 7 Feed Headlines Sidebar Gadget

March 26, 2010 by bharath

If you are using either Windows 7 or Windows Vista, you might be knowing about a desktop sidebar widget called “Feed Headlines”.By default this gadget will show pre-loaded RSS feeds from various popular news and other websites like MSN, CNN etc.,.But have you ever thought about controlling these feeds adding your own feed subscriptions from your favorite RSS feed reader instead ??

That would be great, right? Here we are going to show how to setup your “Feed Headlines” gadget to show feeds from your feed subscriptions (using OPML file) :

Pre-requisite: An OPML file exported from your RSS feed reader

Step 1: Open your Internet Explorer (possibly Internet explorer 8), find a button called “Favorites” and click on it to expand its options.

Step 2: As shown in the following screen shot, find “Import and Export” option from the menu.

Step 3: Choose the option “Import from a file” in the next window.

Step 4: In the next step, you will be asked “What would you like to import? ”, select the option “Feeds”.

Step 5: Now locate the “OPML” file that you have got from your favorite feed reader.(Read the guide to export as OPML from feed readers).

Step 6: Select a destination folder for your imported feeds and click “Next”.

Step 7: Now you have successfully imported your feed subscriptions from a feed reader.

Step 8: Go to your Feed Headlines gadget and choose the feed subscriptions folders from which you want your gadget to display feeds.

That’s it from the settings side, now go check your feed headlines gadget, which is supposed to show feeds as shown here in the following screen shot.

This is a simple and straight forward process.However if you face any difficulties while doing this, let me know through your comments.

[How-To] Exporting Your RSS Reader[Google Reader & Other] Feed Subscriptions As OPML File

March 23, 2010 by bharath

This isn’t our conventional ‘How-To’ article, but still some readers who are just beginners of RSS feed readers/ aggregators may want to know these little things about importing/ exporting feeds in OPML format.

OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language.This is now being used for exchanging list of web feeds between various web feed aggregators.In this small tutorial, we are going to explain how exactly this importing and exporting via OPML is done.

Importing / exporting feeds in Google Reader:

Navigate to “Import/Export” tab under settings

Now here you can find options to export your subscriptions as an OPML file or import your existing subscriptions OPML file.Isn’t it simple ??

FeedDemon & RSS Bandit :

FeedDemon is the popular RSS feed aggregator for desktops which supports synchronization with Google Reader.

Importing and exporting feed subscriptions as OPML files is a lot easier in these readers.You can directly access “Import Feeds/ Export Feeds” options under “File” menu.

Similarly in Rss Bandit, you can Import Feed or Export feeds from the “File” menu,or suing shortcuts Ctrl + I or Ctrl + E.

Is your operating system is Windows 7/Windows Vista? If so, you can use “Feed Headlines” gadget show feeds from your feed subscriptions.Stay tuned to this blog to know how to do it.

Disable Ads in FeedDemon Reader In Easy Steps

April 17, 2011October 15, 2009 by bharath

FeedDemon the most popular desktop RSS reader has many good features to boast of but from the time since it became Ad-Supported (from the version 2.8) free RSS reader, ads have started rolling on the left corner of the client .The user has to purchase a serial to completely remove those ads which are annoying at times.

If you are looking for a way to at least stop those ads too keep rolling in your FeedDemon, here’s a workaround:

FeedDemon uses Deck Network Ads which runs through the server northmay.com, so all we need to do is to deny access to northmay.com from your computer.This can be done in many ways, though the much simpler trick would be to add the following URLs in the ‘Restricted Sites’ option in Internet Options that are present under settings in Internet explorer

(This works since FeedDemon uses IE to connect to the internet)

URL:

*.northmay.com

The result would like this:

Let me know if anyone is facing problems with this or also do post a comment here, if anyone has a far better idea than this, your suggestions are welcome.

Alternative: As mentioned earlier. FeedDemon has come up with these ads only from Version 2.8, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get FeedDemon stable version 2.7.

Final Word:As, Nick Bradbury of FeedDemon says this software needs support from people and Techrena urges all FeedDemon lovers to do the same and without that support we may not see our favorite reader anymore..

Download FeedDemon 3.0.0.10 Beta 1b Free RSS reader

April 17, 2011April 5, 2009 by bharath

FeedDemon, the most popular Windows RSS reader / News Aggregator version 3.0 (in Beta) is available now for download.A lot of new features like built-in Twitter support and built-in short URL maker are included in it.Please note that as this is not the final release of FeedDemon 3, it is more likely to have bugs while running.

Download FeedDemon 3.0 Beta 1b (Build 3.0.0.10)— (4.10MB)

Note:Before you may install FeedDemon 3 Beta 1B,you may want to back up your version 2 [as this 3 beta version has lot of bugs in it] feed data.You can do this by selecting File > Manage Cache > Backup, then choose your desired backup location.

Please visit Feed Demon Beta Developer site for more on it.