#8,9 Tech Weekend: RSS Account, Newsfeed, Newsreaders, Youtube Video.....

What did I do for the past week? I do not have time to work on my QL L2.0 assignments during working days; but by the one or two hours in the evening, plus non-working Saturdays and Sundays, still a lot can be done. First I added copyright marks on all my pictures. These pictures were taken in Manhattan, Queens, or at home; and they were edited/twisted by Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop is easy to use; like a hobby game, one can just play with it to create a variety of color and shape out of one photo. The software is expensive indeed, but recently I found a website that sells it at very low price legally by allowing buyers to down load it from the website only without instruction books, nor help support.Then I added video clips on Al Gore, the Vice President (the topic may change from time to time) from Youtube.com by following the Dashboard instructions, and a RSS newsreader from cnn.com.

Thanks to the QL L2.0 program I came to know what is newsfeed, RSS account and how to create one of my own. They have been in the web world for some years, but I did not pay attention to them because there was no motivation to learn. (See the importance of motivations?) They looked strange and formidable at first; but by following the rss links listed on my del.icio.us of the QL L2.0 by our QL L2.0 Team, it became easy. But it still took me several hours to get the right codes matching the right figs. Shortly after my newsfeed account is set up, one of the posts in my blog, "Flickr.com, the nice things", appeared on the "Goodle Reader" of my iGoogle homepage. It's a happy surprise to see it over there. Later of the day my newly setup newsfeeds for "Add to Google", "+ My Yahook", and "+ Facebook" also appeared in the iGoogle reader. At this moment there are altogether 13 items in the Google reader, the first one is a link to my blog "Living Library", all the rest are from "Green Life", that is another blogger's page in Spanish. "Living Library" also appeared on My Yahoo!, but with the words "No items in the past 3 days." Right now there are three newsreaders on my blog, Besides CNN I later added RSS newsreaders from the White House and the Library of Congress. It is useful indeed; I do not have to go to cnn.com for its headlines, I can read them right here on my blog page. I have set up my Bloglines newsreader account, and while at my home computer by clicking the Bloglines icon below I can read all the news on the "Bloglines | My Feeds" page. At other computers I need to login to read the subscribed news.