ioperating: Look over there

We’ve made two small-but-important improvements in the Boyce Blog set-up. Look to the left, under the “iChat Status” button, and you’ll see categories where you used to see months. Click a category and you’ll see all of the blog entries that match. We’ve categorized every entry, so this should be pretty handy for you. This is a free upgrade.

We’ve also added an “RSS Feed” link. Click it and see what happens. If you get something that looks like the picture shown below, great-- we’ll keep going. (If instead you get something asking you about Mail, cancel and wait for the next installment.)

Notice that the RSS Feed version of the Boyce Blog gives you an article count (sort of interesting), a search field (very interesting), and an Article Length slider (very useful, and lots of fun).

Drag the slider to the left and you get something like this:

Drag it all the way to the left and you get something like this.

Click a story (in bold) and you’ll see the entire article, on the original website. Neat.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and it’s a lot bigger than the Boyce Blog. You will see RSS links on many sites, and you’ll see RSS buttons in the address bar of many websites. All you do is click. It’s a neat way to scan a lot of articles. Click one and you get the whole thing.

Here are a couple of examples.
Click the RSS button on the New York Times website...