Reading RSS Feeds on Apple OS X
June 30th, 2008 by Jason Gutierrez
Unlike Outlook 2007, Entourage 2008 does not aggregate RSS feeds. Never-the-less there are many other RSS readers available for Mac OS X. If you use Apple's Mail program to read your Exchange Mail via IMAP, then you can subscribe to RSS feeds directly in that client.
Here are three basic options for subscribing to RSS feeds, though you can google up many more.
NetNewsWire
I personally use NetNewsWire (http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/). NetNewsWire will allow you to create a news gator account, allowing you to synchronize your RSS feeds between multiple computers. Once installed, you can set it as your RSS browser of choice. The advantage to this application over other methods, is that it brings all your news feeds into one spot, and synchronizes across all your Macs.
Safari
The Safari web browser displays an RSS button in the location bar when ever it detects that the page you have navigated to contains an RSS feed. Just click the button to flip over to the RSS page.
Firefox
The Firefox web browser also displays an RSS icon. In Firefox 3.0, you can click on the icon to bookmark it, and Firefox will create a "live bookmark" for it. Every time you launch Firefox, it will go out to that RSS page and update the feeds. Check out www.getfirefox.com for more information.
UNT RSS Feeds:
To subscribe to the feed, copy and paste the URLs below in to the subscription window of your RSS reader (see step 5).
Copy ONLY the URL (i.e. https://accounce.unt.edu).
Announce topics include:
Administration https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/23
Annual University Events https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/22
Arts and Entertainment https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/13
Awards, Receptions and Memorials https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/11
Community and Volunteer Opportunities https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/16
Conferences, Presentations and Training <ttps://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/14
Miscellaneous https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/21
Process, Policy and Procedure https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/17
Promotions, Contests and Menus https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/24
Research, Grants and Fellowships https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/27
Sports, Health and Fitness https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/19
Surplus for University Use https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/28
UNT Spirit and Student Events https://announce.unt.edu/taxonomy/term/26
You also can learn more about UNT news at inhouse.unt.edu http://inhouse.unt.edu