Apple has turned Safari, the Mac OS X Web browser, into an RSS reader. Here’s how life with Safari works. Any time you see an RSS logo appear If you click the RSS button, you enter Safari’s RSS-reading view: a scrolling "front Now here’s where it gets interesting. Exactly as in Firefox, you can If you drag several of these bookmarks into a single bookmark folder But wait, there’s more! Suppose you now search this master page for something In essence, you’ve now built yourself a self-updating, personal clipping We’re not sure we understand all that, but we are raring to try, especially from an Pogues article on the new Mac OS – Tiger<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The browser wars refuse to die. After being a very satisfied two-year monagomous relationship with Safari, recently we have been having an on-again, off-again affair with Firefox. Now Safari, perhaps aware that her sheen and sparkle had started to fade, … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/28pogue.jpg\")
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\n wars refuse to die. After being a very satisfied two-year monagomous
\n relationship with Safari, recently we have been having an on-again, off-again
\n affair with Firefox. Now Safari, perhaps aware that her sheen and sparkle
\n had started to fade, has come back with a vengance by embracing today’s
\n sexiest new technology – RSS! Check it out:<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Combining RSS with the browser makes overwhelming sense, because you
\n don’t have to flip back and forth between the headlines in one program
\n and the full articles in your Web browser. (Firefox, an outstanding free
\n browser for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, integrates RSS feeds in a very
\n similar way, although without as much flexibility as what you’re about
\n to read.)<\/p>\n
\n in the address bar, Safari is telling you that you’ve stumbled onto a
\n Web page that offers an RSS feed. (That’s handy, because it’s not always
\n easy to tell if a page does or not.) Of course, you can also seek out
\n RSS sites using Web sites like Feedster.com and Technorati.com.<\/p>\n
\n page" containing all of the tidbits (articles, blog entries) from
\n that Web page. A clever Article Length slider expands or shrinks all
\n entries simultaneously, from full-length articles, with photos, to headlines
\n only. Searching and sorting controls await at the right side.<\/p>\n
\n bookmark this RSS feed. From now on, your Bookmarks menu (or Bookmarks
\n bar) lets you know how many new articles have been published on the Web
\n site you subscribed to – you’ll see, for example, "NYtimes.com
\n (7)" – so you don’t waste time visiting pages where there’s nothing
\n new.<\/p>\n
\n – because they’re all on one related topic, like tech gadgets – you gain
\n a new option: a View All RSS Articles command that sprouts from that
\n folder. Now ALL of your RSS subscriptions appear on a single, neatly
\n consolidated page. On my Safari bookmark bar, for example, I have a folder
\n called Tech that shows me, at a glance, all the new entries from Engadget,
\n Gizmodo, NYTimes.com\/tech and, of course, my own Pogue’s Posts – all
\n on a single page.<\/p>\n
\n that interests you: "Treo," or "HDTV," or whatever.
\n Safari hides all entries except those that match – and now you can bookmark
\n THIS page.<\/p>\n
\n service. With one click, you make Safari display all the articles, from
\n the Web sites you consider relevant, that pertain to a topic that interests
\n you. It’s a fantastic way to keep tabs on a sports team, movie star,
\n company or whatever.<\/p>\n
\n since our Manila RSS aggregator has been misbehaving something awful
\n lately….<\/i><\/p>\n
\n email from David Pogue<\/a> <\/p>\n