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Gone are days, I used to read newspapers and magazines. The availability of Internet opens a plethora of information sources. The content comes to your doorstep free of cost as well. No more hassles of dumping piles of old newspapers and magazines.

If you do not subscribe to RSS feeds yet, it is high time you do. If this sounds too geeky, take a look at the Wikipedia article first. Websites that offer frequently updated content is likely to publish RSS feeds. Using these feeds you read about what's happening around the world without visiting websites. If you subscribe to lot of e-mail newsletters, you know how difficult it is to manage them. Subscribing, unsubscribing and managing spam add to the inconvenience.

RSS feeds solve this problem. First and foremost, you have to download and install a feed reader on your computer. In the last post I mentioned a few names. I recommend Thunderbird. You can configure your e-mail accounts and also subscribe to RSS feeds using the "News and Blogs" feature in Thunderbird. Use Google to find the feeds you want and add them to your RSS feed reader. You don't have to visit those websites again to see what is updated. Look for the feed icon as displayed to the right of the above paragraph and click on it to visit the feed URL.

Here I am, doing justice to my previous post. Many interesting things happened during this time.

Drupal 6.0 was released. It was followed by Drupal 6.1 release. And I updated this site to the latest Drupal release. The site now uses a stock theme. What do you think about it? I am preparing myself to write an E-book on how to build blogging sites using Drupal. Keep watching for more updates on the E-book.

I also happen to register myself on many social networking sites. If people want to get in touch with you, they are going to ask you your profile URL just like your e-mail address and phone number. Give me a shout if you find me on your favorite social network. I also am building social networking sites nowadays. The full disclosure arena is close on the horizon.

Among other things, I tried few RSS readers or news aggregators on my desktop PC. Initially I was using Thunderbird for both e-mails and RSS feeds. Having configured too many accounts on the same software was little cumbersome. Therefore, downloaded few RSS readers and tried them one by one. They all lacked basic user interface features. For example, there was no "Select All" feature in one software. In another software, there was absolutely no option to disable the "delete confirmation dialog box". How frustrating! I don't even remember their names, except Akregator. I sure do not recommend it to anyone. I reverted to Thunderbird. And hey, this site generates RSS feeds. You can subscribe to them using the URL - http://sudheer.net/rss.xml.

I will be back with more updates soon.