RSS is the acronym for Really Simple Syndication, a format used most often by websites that update frequently, like blogs or news sites. There are many different programs you can use to subscribe to and keep track of RSS sites, but Safari comes with an RSS reader built right in, so you don’t have to use a separate program if you don’t want to.
When you visit a website that uses RSS, Safari will display the RSS symbol in the address bar. If you want to view the RSS feed, just click the icon and the feed will appear in your browser window. You will see the total number of articles in the feed in the upper-right corner of your screen and the number of new articles.
In the right sidebar you will see a variety of options pertaining to RSS. First, you can use the slider to select how much of an article appears in your feed. If you just want a small portion to appear, move the slider to the left. For the full article, move it all the way to the right. You can also make a selection under the Sort By heading to sort your articles by title, source, date, or most recent.
Use the Recent Articles options to select articles from a certain date or range of dates. You will find the original source of the article listed under Source. Under the Actions heading you will find options that include updating the RSS feed to see any new articles that have been posted since you opened the feed, sharing the article with someone via e-mail, subscribing to the feed yourself by e-mail, and bookmarking the feed.
You can bookmark RSS feeds just as you can with regular websites. Save the bookmark to your Bookmarks Bar. The number of unread articles in the feed will appear next to the name of the bookmark.
You can access the RSS tab of Safari’s user preference to set how often it checks for new articles in your RSS feeds. You can also tell Safari to mark new articles in a different color so that you can easily tell them apart from your previously read articles.
As mentioned before, there are lots of different browsers that you can use on your MacBook; you don’t have to stick with Safari if you don’t want to. Two other popular browsers are Mozilla’s Firefox browser and Google’s Chrome browser.
To download a new browser, you just need to visit the associated website and download the version for Mac OS X. When you click Download at one of these websites, you will be asked to agree to the Terms of Service for the browser. Read them if you like and then accept them if you want to download the browser. You will then start the file transfer. You can choose to save the file and then open it or to open it upon download.
Run the file, and the installation application will launch and guide you through the setup process. Once you have installed the new browser, you can launch it from the Applications menu or pin it to the Dock for easy access.
There really isn’t too much difference between browsers. They all operate in more or less the same way, with an address and search bar, bookmarks, and preferences. Some come with slight variations on standard features, and all of them look slightly different. It hasn’t been proven conclusively that any one browser is faster than any other, so choose your browser based on any unique features it might offer and its aesthetics.
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