How To Subscribe To Waldo’s Web

Waldo’s Web uses RSS feeds to publish blog articles and website activity updates.

Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, is a web feed that allows users and applications to access updates to the website in a standardized, computer-readable format. RSS feeds allow you to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, called an RSS reader. The RSS reader will automatically check the RSS feed for new content, allowing the list to be automatically passed from website to website or from website to user. This passing of content is called web syndication.

Subscribing to Waldo’s Web removes the need for you to manually check the website for new content. Instead, your RSS reader constantly monitors the site and informs you of any blog posts or updates.

How Do I Subscribe?

To subscribe to Waldo’s Web, you will need to install an RSS reader on your computer or mobile device. Generally, you then subscribe to feeds either by clicking on one of the links below, or by entering a feed’s URI into the reader, or by clicking on the browser’s feed icon in you web browsers toolbar.

There are several different ways to subscribe, depending on the browser you use, and whether you are using a laptop or desktop computer, or a tablet or smartphone. Every single one of these is easy to set up, though they do offer slightly different features.

This page contains a number of YouTbue videos about subscribing to RSS feeds:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+subscribe+to+rss

Web Browsers

Most modern web browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome, no longer open RSS feeds natively. You may need to install browser “add-ons”, or “extensions”.

Firefox

Here is a list of RSS reader Add-ons for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=RSS

Chrome

Here is a list of RSS reader Add-ons for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/rss%20reader?hl=en

Microsoft Edge

Here is a list of RSS reader Add-ons for Microsoft Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/search/RSS%20reader?hl=en-US

Safari

For Safari, you’ll need to visit the Apple store and search for an RSS reader extension.

Tablets & Cell Phones

For mobile devices, ‘there’s an app for that’. Visit your respective device’s app store and search for “RSS Reader”. You’ll have dozens of options on multiple different mobile device operating systems. The few below work well, but there are plenty of good alternatives.

Android

Here is a list of RSS readers for Android: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=RSS%20reader&c=apps

iPhone / iPad

Visit you device’s store and search for RSS Reader.

Stand-alone RSS Feed Readers

You can also download stand-alone RSS readers for you desktop or laptop computers.

Arch Linux org.plasma.private.kicker Module Not Installed

I updated my desktop PC yesterday, (# pacman -Syu) only to discover nothing would launch after login. I use KDE 5 on Arch Linux. Whenever I clicked the ‘K’ application menu, I received a message indicating that the org.plasma.private.kicker module was not installed.

What the heck is that?

I worked around it for a day (yesterday, 2017-01-23) by holding the shift key and typing the first letter of the application I wanted to run. [SHIFT+F] to bring up the run command and then finishing with ‘irefox’ would get my web browser running.

That got me through the day yesterday, but today, I decided to take a few minutes and try to resolve the issue. Since I didn’t know what the problem was, I simply decided to reinstall xorg-service and the plasma group.

# pacman -S xorg-server plasma

Did the trick, by reinstalling the packages from my cache. I’m now a happy desktop GUI using camper. 😀