This is a brief overview of using RSS with Sage-Too in Add-on for Firefox-3. If you don't have Firefox installed, you can do so now by navigating to mozilla.com. Once you have Firefox-3 installed, you can search for, download, and install Sage-Too. You can either do a search in the search engines for Sage-Too Firefox extension or follow any of the links that accompany this video.
Online activities like reading the news, blogs, watching videos, searching Craigslist, and a variety of other sites are aided by RSS. Sometimes you don't have enough time to do everything that you want to do. This was Bob's situation until recently. Bob took a couple of minutes to learn how to use RSS feeds. As a result, he is now a lot more efficient. This video will help you become a lot more efficient too. Because Bob is an avid reader, he checks the news in quite a few different blogs everyday. It can take some time. The content on the blog hasn't changed since his last visit; it makes for any efficient day.
Before RSS, Bob had to visit each site individually. All things set and done, it took Bob a lot of valuable time to get up speed with all of the sites that he frequented. When you use RSS, updates are given to you when they become available. That means you don't have to search each site. The news is brought to you. A lot of tools require you to scan the page and look for RSS feeds, not with Sage-Too.
Since Bob is at his computer now, let's go ahead and take a look and see what he is actually doing with Sage-Too. I can see that Bob is on the Today's Best Tools blog; let's zoom in and take a closer look. From this zoomed in view, you can see the Sage-Too Add-on in your Toolbar. It is kind of like a leaf. When you click it, the Sage-Too pop up opens in the same window.
Some of the major features of the Sage-Too Add-on is the ability to refresh all the feeds that are in your list. The feeds are located within all of these files. By clicking on Refresh, it automatically goes through, and it checks all of your feeds for updated content. You can add new files by right-clicking and selecting a new folder. For the page that you are on, you are able to quickly scan the page to discover if there is any feeds.
Sage-Too quickly scans the page, and gives you a list of feeds that are available on site. As you can see, I have two feeds available, one for my blog posts, and another RSS feed for the comments on the blogs. So we will grab the main blog post feed and add it to Sage-Too. You can view the feeds by clicking on the feed itself. You will see that the RSS feed brings in the data from my site, only that's in an XML view. Within an XML view, you can still click on the links. You just don't have the same styling of the page that you normally go to. At any point in time, you can go to the site by clicking the main heading at the top of the page.
To move your folders and files, you just click, drag, and drop. To open up each of the folders, you simply click, and all of the newest updated content of the feeds that you have on your list are presented to you. You can see that if I click on the Updated Feeds button, there is actually a lot more feeds that I am tracking in each folder. They just don't have the updated content.
Likewise, if I want to see all of the documents, all of the feeds that I have, I simply click here to toggle all folders, open and closed. You can save and move your feeds using an OPML document. It's just a file that you are able to import and export from one aggregator like Sage-Too to another.
Working with RSS feeds is really that simple. With practice and incorporating a few additional tools, you can easily manage data from thousands of sites across the web. Let's do a quick overview from a big picture perspective. RSS feeds are those little orange buttons that you find on the web, and they are really easy to work with.
An RSS feed is simply a document for carrying information. By leveraging RSS feeds, you can take a lot of data from the internet and use it to your advantage. Sage-Too is an aggregator or a collector of RSS feed, and you can save and you can export your RSS feeds as an OPML file. An OPML file is just a file and you can export and import your RSS feeds to a variety of aggregators around the web.
RSS feeds are just one more tool that you can use to increase your productivity and efficiency while working on the internet. This has been the Today's Best Tools screen cast. Thanks for checking us out on the web at todaysbesttools.com. Special thanks goes out to Dabbleboard for allowing me to use the online white-board. You can use it yourself for free, go to dabbleboard.com. Thanks for watching.
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