Akregator is a feed reader (or
aggregator) which can check on
RSS-enabled sites for the latest headlines
or articles.
RSS is typically used on blogs and personal
Web sites but also on major media sites such as those from
CNN,
BBC and
Reuters. Choose
+ → from the main menu to launch it.
Toolbar. Where the main action buttons lie.
News Channels. It shows a tree of all news feed channels with the channels' names. A number between parenthesis indicates the number of unread articles on the channel.
Article List. Where the subject and date of articles for the currently selected news channel are displayed. Select an article to display it in the Article View Pane.
Article View Pane. Where the currently selected article's contents are displayed. Some news feeds don't provide the article's contents but a link to them instead. Clicking on that link opens the article on a new tab inside Akregator.
As an example, let's add a feed for the
CNN World News
Feed. Right-click on the
All Feeds
folder at the top of
Akregator's tree structure and
select
from the pop-up menu. Type the
URL (
http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_world.rss
) in the
Feed URL field and accept your
settings.
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Click on
to fetch new articles for the
currently selected feed. Click on
to update all news feeds. By
default, feeds are updated every 30 minutes. Right-click on a
given feed, then select
, put a check mark in the
Use a custom update interval option and
select the desired update interval, as shown in
Figura 2.11, «Feed Properties».