Industry guru Dave Taylor offers free tech support on a wide variety of technical and business topics, including HTML, Apple iPhone, online advertising, Cascading Style Sheets, Web design, management, Unix, Linux, search engine optimization, online dating, Mac OS X, shell script programming and Microsoft Windows.

How do I delete an RSS feed in NewsGator Online?

I've been using NewsGator Online based on your recommendation, and so far I really like it. Except I subscribed to an RSS feed from a site and I really don't like what the author has to say and would like to delete or unsubscribe from that feed. How do I do that in NewsGator Online?


Dave's Answer:

Glad that you're enjoying the free NewsGator Online RSS reader. I've been using it for quite a while and really think that it's the best and easiest of the many different readers or "RSS aggregators" available today.

However, easiest doesn't mean super easy, and one area where it's not completely obvious how to proceed is unsubscribing from a specific RSS feed.

There are actually two ways you can do it. The first is if you're reading all of your RSS feeds in "aggregated mode" (where they're all shown together), then simply click on the name of the feed you'd like to delete. You'll then only be shown the RSS entries from that feed, but, more importantly, you'll have a few options that you don't get in aggregated mode:

NewsGator Online: Unsubscribing from an RSS Feed

You can see here that not only is Om Malik's weblog quite popular, with 526 subscribers in the NewsGator system (and deservedly so, Om does a great job with his tech and industry news analysis and is a heck of a nice guy too), but that the option you seek is here too: unsubscribe. Click on that and you'll be unsubscribed from the RSS feed of your choice.

The other way you can unsubscribe from an RSS feed is to click on the NewsGator Manager tab on the top. It'll show you a list of every RSS feed to which you're subscribed, as exemplified here:

NewsGator Online: Unsubscribing from an RSS Feed

This time I'm looking at Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs, another weblog well worth reading if you're interested in how the legal profession can reach out and establish a dialog with its marketplace. If I wanted to unsubscribe, I'd simply click on the graphical "X" symbol and it'd be done.

The other elements in this view are worth mentioning too: The HTML button takes you to the weblog home page, the RSS button links to the RSS feed on the site, the All indications what location or locations you want this particular RSS feed accessible (if you've set up a multi-location configuration for NewsGator, something I haven't done, hence "All"), the Pencil icon lets you change or tweak your subscription information for that particular RSS feed (for example, adding a login and password if the feed is secure), and the "X" lets you unsubscribe.

Either way, once you know the trick it's pretty easy to unsubscribe from whatever RSS feed you no longer want. To learn how to subscribe to a new RSS feed, please read my article How do I subscribe to an RSS feed?



Help others find this article at Del.icio.us, Digg, Netscape, Reddit, and Stumble Upon    
Categorized: Blogs and RSS Feeds   (Article 4272)
Tagged:
Previous: What is VOIP?
Next: What is "Location Free" on my Sony PSP?

Subscribe!

Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader.

Comments
Rather amazingly, there are no comments on this article yet.

I have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
Starbucks coffee cup I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you for all your efforts on this Web site by buying you a cup of coffee!

I do have a comment, now that you mention it!











Remember personal info?


Please note that I will never send you any unsolicited email. Ever.

While I'm at it, please note that by submitting a question or comment you're agreeing to my terms of service, which are: you relinquish any subsequent rights of ownership to your material by submitting it on this site.








Ask Dave Taylor: The iPhone App: Advertisement



Follow me on Twitter @DaveTaylor

Search
Find just the answers you seek from among our 2300+ free tech support articles by using our Lijit search engine.


Help!





Subscribe to
Ask Dave Taylor!

Add to Google Reader
Add to My Yahoo!
Subscribe in NewsGator Online

RDF   XML

Free Updates!
Sign up and get free weekly updates and special offers on books, seminars, workshops and more.


Recent Entries
Book Links
© 2002 - 2010 by Dave Taylor. All Rights Reserved.

Note: This web site is for the purpose of disseminating information for educational purposes, free of charge, for the benefit of all visitors. We take great care to provide quality information. However, we do not guarantee, and accept no legal liability whatsoever arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material contained on this web site or on any linked site.

[whiteboard marker tray]
"Ask Dave Taylor®" is a registered trademark of Intuitive Systems, LLC.