September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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304 switching to the mac: the missing manual
Tip: If the feed you want isn’t part of System Preferences’ repertoire, just add the feed to your Safari book-
marks and relaunch System Preferences.
Make feeds open automatically
As described on page 298, you can easily set up any favorite Web site as your home
page, the page that opens automatically whenever you start Safari or create a new
window.
It turns out, though, that you can also make an RSS feed—or a list of feeds—your
home page. Open the feeds you want, choose SafariÆPreferences, click General, and
click Set to Current Page.
If you started by opening a list of local, national, international, business, and sports
news feeds, you’ve just made yourself a great imitation of a newspaper, but tailored
to your interests. Plus, articles in this Safari-newspaper arrangement are timelier than
anything you could read in print—and they’re completely free.
Tip: To find more RSS feeds, visit a site like www.feedster.com, or just watch for the appearance of the blue
RSS button in the Address bar.
By the way, Safari isn’t the only RSS reader for Mac OS X. If you catch the RSS bug, you might want to try a
program like NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/), which offers a more advanced layout and
many more options.
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(America Online Instant Messenger), ...
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