FileRSS browser was written by one of our members and is available for download. (104 Kilobytes) Therefore, St Davids in the Fields is unable to provide technical support for it beyond what is contained in these pages. By downloading it you use it entirely at your own risk. It is provided as a convenience to members who want to keep up to date with our events. But anyone else who may find it useful is welcome to use it.
RSS-Browser is meant as a "light weight" RSS Reader. So it is "crude" by comparison to some other readers. For instance, it does not allow you to place news feeds into categories, only gives one level of bookmarks and does not allow you to access your Internet Explorer "Favourites" (Other than to add pages to it). It's light weight nature will make it ideal for some but not for all!
The program is split into:
File
Options allows various options to be configured,
such as fire-walls. The list of RSS feeds can also be edited here. See options
for details.
Exit will exit RSS Browser.
RefreshBy clicking this all feeds are updated from the Internet. The application may "freeze" while it downloads all feeds. Don't click refresh again while this is in progress, or a second update will start as soon as the current one is finished!
Bookmarks
Bookmark Clicking on this will load the bookmarked
page in the Item Details area.
Go to Clicking on this will load the bookmarked
page in the Item Details area.
Delete will delete the bookmarked page from the
bookmarks list.
Back Takes you to the previously viewed item.
Forward Takes you forward to the next item again
if you have gone ack a page too many using the Back button.
Channel Summary will redisplay the channel summary in the
Item details area. Note the "Back" and "Forward" buttons will take you to normal web pages but not RSS feed summaries.
Print will send the currently displayed item to your printer.
Bookmark will add the current page to your bookmarks. If there is
already a page in your bookmarks with the same title, the new page will not be added to your bookmarks. Some sites
like Reuters sometimes give several stories the same title, but most sites don't do this.
URL Allows you to manually type in a URL. Press enter to load the page.
Current Item Indicates the currently selected item.
Channel This gives the identity of the
supplier of the RSS feed. clicking on this will display a feed summary in the Item display area. If a
item is currently selected from the feed. click on the channel will not give the feed summary, Use the
"Channel Summary" button in the navigation bar to do this.
Item indicates individual items in the channel.
Some sites may display a link to an RSS feed,
and by clicking and dragging this link over the list of feeds you can add the feed to your list.
Such links are often (but not always) indicated by a "RSS" or "XML" marker such as shown at the start of this paragraph.
Others might just display the location of the feed in text. In this case select the text, right mouse click,
select copy and then drag it over the feed list.
This is a stripped down Internet Explorer! Click on links and you will be taken to those links. A right click on a link or other part of a page has the same effect as it would in Internet Explorer. So you can add pages to favourites, save or even print them.