adding rss feeds to feed watcher

Hey great gadget..but uhm.. how does it work? Settings is greyed out, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add new feeds to it. Seems rather useless if you're restricted to only the IE team blog and MSFeeds. I tried adding a feed through IE, but it just saved it to the local IE feed link, it didn't send it to the gadget.

You have to go to IE and subscribe to the feed that you want to have in Feed Viewer. After subscribing to the feed, it will be available in the Feed Viewer gadget. A note on it though, it will refresh the first time that you add it, then it doesn't want to refresh again until you log in again. I think that this is supposedly fixed in later builds. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
crossmr wrote:

Hey great gadget..but uhm.. how does it work? Settings is greyed out, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add new feeds to it. Seems rather useless if you're restricted to only the IE team blog and MSFeeds. I tried adding a feed through IE, but it just saved it to the local IE feed link, it didn't send it to the gadget.

in addition, how do you unsubscribe from a feed? Help is as usual, no help on this. Lots of ways to tell you how to read a feed, and subscribe to a feed, but nothing on removing one.

Hey thanks, I re-added the gadget and its there. Any ideas on the unsubscribing? google wasn't much help either.
"Mark Dietz" wrote:

You have to go to IE and subscribe to the feed that you want to have in Feed Viewer. After subscribing to the feed, it will be available in the Feed Viewer gadget. A note on it though, it will refresh the first time that you add it, then it doesn't want to refresh again until you log in again. I think that this is supposedly fixed in later builds. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
crossmr wrote: Hey great gadget..but uhm.. how does it work? Settings is greyed out, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add new feeds to it. Seems rather useless if you're restricted to only the IE team blog and MSFeeds. I tried adding a feed through IE, but it just saved it to the local IE feed link, it didn't send it to the gadget.

Not really unsubscribing, but just right click on the feed(s) you don't want and select "Delete" ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
crossmr wrote:

in addition, how do you unsubscribe from a feed? Help is as usual, no help on this. Lots of ways to tell you how to read a feed, and subscribe to a feed, but nothing on removing one.

exactly where am I supposed to be right clicking? If I rightclick the gadget, no delete there, if I click the drop down on the feed icon in IE that lists the feeds, and right click one, it just takes me to it. Right clicking the feed icon doesn't give me a ny kind of delete action
"Mark Dietz" wrote:

Not really unsubscribing, but just right click on the feed(s) you don't want and select "Delete" ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
crossmr wrote: in addition, how do you unsubscribe from a feed? Help is as usual, no help on this. Lots of ways to tell you how to read a feed, and subscribe to a feed, but nothing on removing one.

Go to IE, click the big "+" icon to open the sidebar in it. Go to Feeds and then right click on the feed that you don't want. If that doesn't work, or if it takes you to the feed, do you have your mouse setup to be left-handed? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org>
crossmr wrote:

exactly where am I supposed to be right clicking? If I rightclick the gadget, no delete there, if I click the drop down on the feed icon in IE that lists the feeds, and right click one, it just takes me to it. Right clicking the feed icon doesn't give me a ny kind of delete action
"Mark Dietz" wrote:
Not really unsubscribing, but just right click on the feed(s) you don't want and select "Delete" ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
crossmr wrote: in addition, how do you unsubscribe from a feed? Help is as usual, no help on this. Lots of ways to tell you how to read a feed, and subscribe to a feed, but nothing on removing one.

That works Thanks. I wasn't aware I could get at the feed sthrough there. I thought I had to go through the orange feed icon on the main display.
"Mark Dietz" wrote:

Go to IE, click the big "+" icon to open the sidebar in it. Go to Feeds and then right click on the feed that you don't want. If that doesn't work, or if it takes you to the feed, do you have your mouse setup to be left-handed? ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org

Just a user interface thing, but it seems like when you're using Feed Watcher/Reader or whatever, it should be more obvious that you have to ADD via IE. Perhaps an ADD button that opens up IE with the RSS feeds open?
People won't automatically know to go to IE, and you can't expect people to learn a new paradigm. If it's available in the gadget, then adding should be possible through the gadget.
My .02
Q Manning
"crossmr" wrote:

Hey thanks, I re-added the gadget and its there. Any ideas on the unsubscribing? google wasn't much help either.
"Mark Dietz" wrote:
You have to go to IE and subscribe to the feed that you want to have in Feed Viewer. After subscribing to the feed, it will be available in the Feed Viewer gadget. A note on it though, it will refresh the first time that you add it, then it doesn't want to refresh again until you log in again. I think that this is supposedly fixed in later builds. ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org
crossmr wrote: Hey great gadget..but uhm.. how does it work? Settings is greyed out, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add new feeds to it. Seems rather useless if you're restricted to only the IE team blog and MSFeeds. I tried adding a feed through IE, but it just saved it to the local IE feed link, it didn't send it to the gadget.