Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:38 AM
If you have Outlook 2007 installed, you already have a built in RSS feed aggregator. I used to rely entirely on Google Reader for my feed, but I’ve grown to love the convenience of having my email and RSS feeds in one interface.
Setting it up is stupid simple. First, there’s the blatent RSS folder that’s part of the treeview in Outlook 2007:
Right click and select ‘Add new RSS feed’
Put in the URL of your favourite blog…
And voila! Instant information goodness delivered straight to your Outlook!
Now, I did run into a few ‘gotchas’ with using Outlook as my RSS feed.
For one, Outlook isn’t as forgiving about the URL’s you use for adding a feed as, say, Google Reader is. With Google Reader I could just enter in the base URL of a site and it would find the feed page. With Outlook you *must* enter in the exact feed page. so
http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier
can’t be used. You need to actually point it to
http://geekswithblogs.net/dlussier/Rss.aspx
The other gotcha was when you assign a feed to a folder. I started created subfolders to better organize my feeds. I accidentally assigned one feed to the grouping folder and now I have no idea how to un-assign it. So be careful when adding that you’re putting it in the right spot the first time.
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