How to subscribe to rss category feeds

We cover a lot of topics here at Download Squad. We cover software you can download, programs you can use online, Mac software, PC software, Linux software, news, data, and so on.

Of course, we think all of the topics we cover are fascinating, but whether you’re only interested in specific items we cover, it’s very easy to subscribe just to the categories or tags you’re interested in.

Here’s how it works. whether you scroll down the page a bit, you’ll notice a huge list of categories. visit on a category and you’ll go to a new page with nothing but posts in that category. For example, whether you only want to read about Mac software and news, just go the “Macintosh” category under “Platforms.”

But what whether you want to subscribe to a Mac-only Download Squad feed using your favorite feed reader? No problem. Just look at the URL bar in your browser. It should look something like “http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/macintosh/” whether

you add “rss.xml” to the end, you’ll get a URL that you scan use to subscribe to that feed using Google Reader, Bloglines, FeedDemon, or just about any other reader.

You can additionally subscribe to stories based on tags. whether you look at the bottom of each Download Squad post page, you’ll notice a bunch of tags that we add to each story. Just visit one and you’ll see a list of stories using that tag. Again, you can subscribe by adding “rss.xml” to the end of the URL. So whether you’re just interested in stories about OS X 10.5 Leopard, for example, you can subscribe to “http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/leopard/rss.xml” Easy as cake.

Just a quick warning. We’re much better at categorizing stories than tagging them. So whether you want to manufacture certain you don’t miss stories you’re interested in, try subscribing to appropriate categories first. And we’ll try to get better about using standard tags. Deal?

Original post by Brad Linder

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