Automate News In Your Bookmarks in IE8

A feature in the Firefox web browser is the ability to use what’s called Live Bookmarks. This is something which has been said is not possible in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser, but in fact is possible and has there and has been all along.

The video above will show you how to enable your IE8 to use self-updating RSS feeds, but here is the written description of how to go about it:

Step 1. Enable the Favorites Bar

If you do not see your Menu bar, tap your ALT key to view it:

…then click View, then Toolbars then Favorites Bar.

Step 2. Enable the RSS button

Right-click on a blank area directly to the right of a tab, then click Customize then Add or Remove Commands…

A small pop-up window will appear. Find Feeds on the left and click Add to place it on the right:

You will know you’re successful if you see an RSS icon in your list on the top right of the browser. When a page has a feed, the icon will turn yellow. When on a page with no feed it will be gray.

Step 3. Enable feed updating and feed reading view

Click Tools then Options then Internet Options.

From the window that pops up, click the Content tab, then the Settings button under the heading Feeds and Web Slices:

Another pop-up window will appear. Check off Automatically check feeds and Web Slices for updates and set the frequency to every 15 minutes.

Also check the box Turn on feed reading view.

Step 4. Find a web site with a feed and add it to your Favorites bar

A good place to start is PCMech.com itself.

Load up any web page on pcmech.com and click the RSS feed icon, which should now be orange:

On the next page you will see a large yellow box with a subscribe option, which you click:

A pop-up window will appear on click of the subscribe link. Check off the box to Add to Favorites Bar:

PCMech will now be in your favorites bar!

On click of any article, it will load in your web browser.

For further tips on how to organize feeds, watch the instructional video above.

Like what you read?

If so, please join over 28,000 people who receive our exclusive weekly newsletter and computer tips, and get FREE COPIES of 5 eBooks we created, as our gift to you for subscribing. Just enter your name and email below:

http://aaronfournier.50webs.com/ Aaron Fournier
Very hand indeed. I know it wasn’t the point of the article, but I never thought about subscribing to YouTube videos via RSS. I rarely ever go on YouTube, so most of the time I miss out on new videos from subscribers, so this would be very convenient for me.
On a side note, is it possible to make some kind of note that there is a video contained within an article. Since the site update, YouTube videos placed in articles don’t show up in RSS feeds and it’s impossible to know that there is one unless noted otherwise.