Adding RSS feeds to the Feed Watcher

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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.
 
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.
 
Not really unsubscribing, but just right click on the feed(s) you don't want and
select "Delete"
 
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
 
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?
 
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.
 
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
 
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