Yes, I do want to monitor these feeds and will certainly follow your advice.
For the time being, I have about 15 feeds on my Internet program and
whenever I see something that is interesting, I check it out.
On the Blindcooltech feeds I am looking at recordings made by a gentleman
who is on the Bookport Plus mailing list as I hope to hone my skills in
recording items of interest.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Marang" <donald.mar...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
If you want to keep track of podcasts on this feed as they are created,
you will want to subscribe to this feed. There are many separate programs
that do this. I prefer to watch feeds in Internet Explorer 8. Here are
some basics.
Often when browsing the web, JAWS will announce when it finishes loading
that there is a feed and so many links on the page. If it says there are
feeds available, pressing Alt + J will bring up a context menu near the
address bar listing the various feeds available on that page. News sites
always have such feeds available. It is also possible to use the Search
for feeds menu item in the Tools menu.
Once an XML RSS feed is being viewed, if you are interested in getting
updates from that site or listen regurarily to their podcasts, subscribe
to the feed. Most feed pages have a plus sign near the top of the page
that will subscribe you to that feed by pressing Enter on the link. I
finsd some sites, especially feedburner pages might not be in the right
format for to subscribe in IE. If you select the Subscribe to this
feed... menu item in the Tools menu. this seems to geyt put into the
correct format for IE. When you subscribe to a feed, it gets added to
your feed list. This is much like the favorites list. In fact, it is
handled from the same area on the toolbars.
To go to your feeds list, press Control + J. It will present a tree view
of your feeds. It is possible to place them in groups, much like
favorites. If the site has added items or articles to the feed since the
last time you viewed the page, a "- new" will be announced after the feed
name in the list. Press Enter to view the latest items in the feed. It
will only show the new items. It keeps track of what you have viewed
before.
The very last link at the bottom of every feed page is a link for
Properties. Hitting Enter here will bring up a dialog. These properties
let you select if you want IE to automatically download attached files,
which are also commonally called podcasts. You might also want to sabe
space on your hard disk by adjusting the number to be archived. For
weekly podcasts, reducing the default from 200 to 4 will still retain a
copy for a month.
I normally copy podcasts I am interested in to a podcaasts folder which I
use a couple of times a week to copy to my Victor Reader for relaxed
speeded up listening. To copy to this podcast folder, I use the
previously mentioned keystrokes. Press Insert + NumPad Minus (-),
followed by Numpad Star (*)., and select "Save target...". Sorry, I have
no idea what the laptop keystrokes would be.
I think that might cover the verry basics of RSS feeds. By the way, RSS
stands for Really Simple Syndication. It is a technology to allow the
viewer, like IE to check every so often for new materieral from a website
and download it automatically. The default frequency can be set to once a
day or every 15 minutes, depending on your needs. This is set on the
content page of the Internet Options dialog.
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am
working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Francis E. Khan" <fek...@tstt.net.tt>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:54 PM
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
I do apologize for my stupidity. After listening to your last post, I
saved the link in my Internet favorites and everything is fine now. It
is now so easy to go online and hit enter on the Blindcooltech item and
hit the enter key.
Thank you again and I can now listen to all the things I need to know
about.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Marang" <donald.mar...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
I have no idea what you have attempted to do. The link below. if opened
in Internet Explorer 7 or 8, will just display all of the items in that
feed. If you are using JAWS, you can move to the next item, sometimes
called articles, simply by pressing the 2 key, since these are level 2
headings. There is a link after the description for the attached MP3
file. Clicking on this link will start your media player. If you want to
download it, press Insert + NumPad Minus (-), followed by Numpad Star
(*). This will bring up the context menu. Select "Save target..." and
select where you want to save the file.
If you decide you like the feed you are using, press Alt + T, followed
by f to subscribe to the feed. If you need more information about
viewing feeds and subscribing to podcasts with IE, hust ask.
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Francis E. Khan" <fek...@tstt.net.tt>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2010 12:55 PM
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
I downloaded the feeddemon option and installed it. There is a Feed
station and the Feeddemon menu. The Blindcooltech is affiliated with
Google so, how do I download all the feeds I want. Nothing seems to
work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Marang" <donald.mar...@gmail.com>
To: <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
I just use the IE 7/8 compatible RSS feed. That is currently how I get
all of my podcasts. The feed is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/blindcooltech
Don Marang
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
Dean Kamen
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From: "Francis E. Khan" <fek...@tstt.net.tt>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:35 PM
To: "Blind Computing" <blind-computing@jaws-users.com>
Subject: [Blind-Computing] Blind Cooltech podcasts
Does anybody know the address of Blind Cooltech? When I type the
internet address of that site I am getting a company which deals with
air-conditioning hardware.
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