Technical Aside – Nan Harter https://nanharter.com Sharing my adventures with family and friends Thu, 29 Dec 2016 22:22:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 190307021 Problem with email service https://nanharter.com/problem-with-email-service/ https://nanharter.com/problem-with-email-service/#respond Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:01:33 +0000 http://www.nanharter.com/?p=2898 Continue reading →]]> I have been having problems with MailChimp being able to see my RSS feed so it has not sending emails of my recent posts. The RSS feed has been validated by a Feed Validator so I know it is valid. I am working on it with MailChimp to see if can figure it out.

]]> https://nanharter.com/problem-with-email-service/feed/ 0 2898 Firefox Live Bookmarks https://nanharter.com/firefox-live-bookmarks/ https://nanharter.com/firefox-live-bookmarks/#respond Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:39:13 +0000 http://www.nanharter.com/?p=261 Continue reading →]]> A technical aside for those of you who use Firefox. If you don’t care about the computer tech stuff, you can stop reading now. I use Firefox internet browser and I created a Live Bookmark link to my site that shows up on my bookmark toolbar. The Live Bookmark is a connection to the RSS feed so when something new is posted, it will show up on the bookmark. What I expected was for the bookmark title to become bold when there was something new. But it didn’t! Frustrated, I started searching and finally found an addon which will do just that: Boox 3.0. I installed it on my Windows XP version and it is working great! Turns the bookmark title to bold when there is a new post so you don’t have to continually check the site  (my posts will be less frequent now that the trip report is finished.) I also like that my new little favicon shows up in the list once a post is read (Thanks Neil).

I found another great tip if you use Google Reader: Mixing Google Reader and Live Bookmarks. This page describes how you can set up a Live Bookmark to point at your Google Reader feed list without having to login to Google. The article points out the plus is a quick look at what’s new in your Reader; the negative is it doesn’t mark the items as read in Google Reader as you read because you aren’t logged. I have just read a good review of NewsBlur so I am going to take a look at it as a reader alternative.

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