RSS with Firefox

I guess alot of people haven’t really bothered about RSS or ATOM Feeds on websites, and I didn’t either – until today.

I got interesting of learning who to make an dynamic RSS feed through asp.net and I started to read all about it. I finally made an RSS Feed from a MSSQL database to an XML file and posted it on one of my works websites. But that’s not what I’m going to talk about today, I just want to share how much I started liking RSS Feeds.

This little Icon appears everywhere on the web and it’s a great feature, you will always stay updated on all your favorite websites. It does sound a bit too much, and a bit fanatic to be updated on ALL your favorite sites but with the right tools it’s easy to separate the relevant info from the irrelevant.

Have you never used an RSS Feed,
here comes a quick guide. Checkout for the RSS Icon, klick it. The RSS should appear in order of posts with the recent updates from the website. Click the subscribe button at the top and add it to your favourites. That’s it! The really cool feature is that it will update automaticly and you will always get the latest info. To check it out you can view my RSS feed.

Handle your RSS Feeds with Firefox add-ons.
After a while when you have added alot of RSS feeds it will get a bit messy in your favorites. This is where a good add-on comes in handy. There are some add-ons for FireFox on their add-on page for RSS feeds and I have tried a bunch of them.

My favorite is Sage, a good stable add-on. It’s easy to import your RSS-map. It’s easy to see when your RSS subsriptions is updated and to see all the posts in the RSS Feed. You can also change the apperance on the RSS to your custom style (CSS) or download any of the skins from Sage’s website.

Download Sage:
Sage website
Mozilla FireFox add-ons site

Finally
Well that’s it for me, I hope this will help you a bit in the RSS jungle and gets your web experience alot easier.
A Howto is coming up on creating RSS Feeds for your website in asp.net C#, stay tuned :D

Firefox

Why Firefox is the best browser in the world!

Some people asks me what browser I use and the answer always is “Firefox because it’s the best one”. Because I’m a web developer firefox is the only browser reading Cascading Style Sheet code the right way unlike InternetExplorer who cant read it at all (feels like it anyway). Mozilla Firefox has always been the browser everyone else wished they had developed first. Opera is also one good browser though there is a paid version and a free version and I just don’t like the idea of paying money for my browser.

I need a customizable browser and the only good one i Mozilla firefox. It has always been a milestone i browser dev. Just look at IE, on latest version 7 they started using tabs, and i just has to be because firefox used it for centuries and finally IE developers are starting to be more exact on the Cascading Style Sheet reading.

But I cant understand why people run IE as their primary browser, when you can run Firefox and customize it to perfection. So for you running IE, download Firefox and try these add-ons. And for you already using Firefox, try them out if you not already are using them.

- Firefox download site (www.firefox.com)

- ScribeFire (download here)

I’m using ScribeFire right now to post this blog message on wordpress. You can use it for costom blogs or other known as well.

- Dictionaries, Select your language (download here)

This is the best thing about Firefox for people like me, bad spellers. I’m from sweden so I got the swedish dictionary and the English dictionary so I can spell this blog a bit better :D.

- Download Statusbar (download here)
I just love this one, In ordinary when downloading a file from the web with Firefox a window pops-up where you can watch the download status, open the file or delete. But this add-on puts the “dl popup” in the statusbar so you don’t get the annoying popup and have full control over the download.

-Speed Dial (download here)

This is a nice add-on too. It’s a speed dial for websites. When you open a new tab, this speed dial screen opens as start page where you can have your nine favorite websites for fast and easy access. It’s perfect for me because I need too use the same web pages a lot of time, so this is really a time saver.

There is a lot of nice add-ons out there and when i find some other great ones i’ll post it here. Good luck with customize your favorite web browser.