metaRSS info blog : Tips

Flickr photo enclosure feeds

Alan — Wed, 17 May 2006 12:30:37 +0000

Everybody knows where to find their Flickr feeds (at the bottom of every page) but what you are missing is that those feeds can have image enclosures too!!!
All you need to do is to change the format at the end of the feed URL:
http://flickr.com/feeds/......&format=rss_200
Change the format to rss_200_enc:
http://flickr.com/feeds/......&format=rss_200_enc

And voila! i.meta RSS will present it to you adequatly.

Video enclosure

Alan — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:44:35 +0000

metaRSS Chicklet maker

Alan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:04:15 +0000

With metaRSS Chicklet maker you can easily make a Chicklet/Button to place on your blog or website for a one click subscription to i.meta RSS .

You can also get the code for a simple Chicklet link and show your support:

Image enclosure enhancement

Alan — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:00:20 +0000

Feeds with image enclosures are already supported by i.meta RSS but now, thanks to a modified version of Tom’s zap_imgpop plugin for Wordpress, you get a better experience.
With a click on the camera icon you get a neat popup layer with the image zoomed to the size of your browser with the possibility to get the real image size as well.
Try it on the picture below.

Keyboard shortcuts

Alan — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:09:14 +0000

Keyboard shortcuts can be very useful, so if you like to use them please check the accessibility page and find out about all the shortcuts for i.meta RSS .
For example to Add a feed use ALT+ t to Delete a feed use ALT+ d for options ALT + o and to increase font size ALT + z to decrease ALT + x.

The links colors

Josée — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:58:19 +0000

When a title of a new article appears in your i Read :: it is in blue color no matter what color Theme is used. Themes can be changed from the Theme menu. You will notice on the left side of each title appears a letter “d” for Day(s) which indicates number of days since the publication of the article. So for 0 and 1 day, the title will remain in blue color, from 2 to 7 days it will appear in black and for those more than 7 days old the title color will become gray.

Once you click on a title it will be highlighted in yellow color until the next page reload then the highlight will become gray.

RSS for all!

Josée — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:48:40 +0000

No need to be an advanced surfer to use i Read :: . We received some questions lately about the entry page.
After logging in, the first page will show The latest headlines from all the feeds added to your i Read :: . These titles will be up to ten by default, but it is possible to change there number from the Preferences menu. In order to see all the titles from a particular feed you can either click on the i Read :: button from the top menu or on any Category button to see all feeds in that category. The categories can be created when adding or editing a feed.

Using the Bookmarklet with iRead

Alan — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:49:35 +0000

The easiest way to add feeds is through the use of the + iRead Bookmarklet.
After logging in to your i Read :: select from the Add menu “Generate Bookmarklet” and ‘click and drag’ the link to your tool bar. While navigating and clicking on that Bookmarklet link, it will fetch every RSS/Atom feed on the opened page and adds it to your i Read ::

If there were several feeds found you select or deselect a feed by clicking “OK” or “Cancel” on each prompt, there will be only one feed added each time. To add another feed from the same page re click on the Bookmarklet again and select the other feed to add. The added feeds will end up in a category called metaCat, you can change it later on if you like.
Not all sites have their feeds ready for autodiscovery so in those cases you have to add that feed manually.

Do not use this Bookmarklet on a publicly accessed computer as anybody using it will be adding feeds to your i Read :: .

If you had already added the Bookmarklet before today, we suggest you adding it again as this is a newer and better version.

Adding feeds

Alan — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:13:07 +0000

Once you’re logged in, adding a feed is as a easy as clicking on the large plus button from the upper right menu and pasting the feed URL, you can also select or create a new category for this feed.

If you didn’t find the feed’s URL, try adding the website URL. If the website has a feed i Read :: will get it and add it as long as the feed is ready for auto discovery, otherwise you get a message and you have to add it manually.

With the second link from the plus button menu you can bulk add feeds through an OPML file. While importing your file all the feeds will be added in the same category called “metaCat” unless the OPML file specifies a set of categories.
Each feed can be changed anytime into any other category.

How to place a RSS feed on your page

Alan — Thu, 19 May 2005 17:33:45 +0000

To place your RSS feed produced by i Feed :: on your website in a way to be automatically detected by a news reader, is an easy task if done properly.

You need to just place a regular link somewhere on your page where it can be seen and to place in the … section of the page a link like this one:

That’s it.