East Lincoln Fire Department RSS Newsfeed
Our RSS 2.0 newsfeeds provide the ability for you to subscribe to news updates from East Lincoln Fire Department. You may accomplish this in a number of ways, which are listed below. After subscribing, these RSS programs can check our newsfeeds on your behalf and send you a link to new articles that it finds. In other words, news headlines come to you automatically!
1. Subscribing using your web browser
Firefox, Safari 2.0, Internet Explorer 7 have built-in RSS capability. Each of these browsers handles news feeds a little differently; click on one of the browser names below to learn more:
- Firefox: If you're using Firefox, you should see this orange symbol in the address bar above:
. Left-click (Windows) or Click (Mac), and then click "OK" when you see the "Add Live Bookmark" box. More on Firefox Live Bookmarks.
- Safari 2.0: If you're using Safari 2.0, you should see this blue symbol in the address bar above:
. Click it and Safari automatically displays the feed. Then bookmark the RSS feed so you can return to it later. More on Safari RSS.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 RSS (still in beta -- information is subject to change)
2. Subscribing using a personalized home page (My Yahoo, Google, etc.):
If you have a personalized web page with Yahoo, Google, Bloglines, AOL, or MSN, simply click the appropriate button to add LRC news feeds to your page:
3. Using a news reader or "aggregator"
This is the traditional method for subscribing to RSS feeds. A news aggregator, such as RSS Bandit or News Gator, is a program that is specially designed to subscribe to newsfeeds. There are many choices of news aggregators, and many (if not most) of them are free. If you use one of these programs, simply cut-and-paste the following URL when creating a new RSS feed:
http://www.lrc.com/rss/index.asp
4. More information on RSS:
- For non-technical people new to RSS, check
out:
http://www.faganfinder.com/search/rss.shtml
- For experienced Internet users, check out
the resources here:
http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/articles/quickstart.phtml
