Sunday 29 March 2009

Keeping up-to-date with new posts

Thought we better put this hint here, as there are quite a number of questions asked about it.

If you are interested on getting updates whenever posts getting updated/loaded into this blog, there are a number of mechanisms to allow those updates being sent to you immediately. You've got updated with the latest posts everytime we/someone updates things to the blog. Here are some of the tricks, choose one that suits you.
  1. RSS feeds (atom or RSS). There are links either the top of the title blog, or the right-hand panel. RSS/Atom works by informing you of the update through the so-called RSS reader. Most mail clients have these built-in. If you are using Outlook, then all you have to do is to set it up once by clicking on the RSS/Atom links, then the new posts are getting uploaded to your mailbox automatically.
  2. Online RSS reader is also available if you have accounts such as gmail, yahoo, etc. You can subscribe to the posts only (without comments) as well as to the comments for the posts (have no idea why they separate posts and comments subscription, just doesn't make much sense to us either). Right-hand panel has that "Subscribe To" links.
  3. Another alternative if you are not tech savvy or not having any of those RSS reader capability, you can always email us, we'll include your email to this blogger. There is a feature in this blogger such that it'll email you a copy of the posts direct to your mailbox. Privacy-concerned ppl: your emails are not shared nor used for any other purposes except to send you updates of the posts.
Once you've setup any of the above, you don't need to visit this blog anymore (although you are more than welcome to come!), since you'll get first-hand copies of the posts, fresh :). You may still need to come if you want to put comments, give some ratings to the posts, or plainly want to see things better online.

These technologies are getting better and handy all the time, though sometimes there are way too many choices about them and they can get pretty confusing :)

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