In The Shop Notes describes what's being done in the shop and offers progress photos of the project being built, along with some Ramblings & Ruminations about woodworking in general.

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If you are using Internet Explorer 7 (or newer) just use the RSS feed button on your icon bar -- it turns orange if there is a feed on the page you are viewing.  Click the little black triangle next to the button to see if there is more than one feed available to choose from.  Your RSS feed collection is stored under your Favorites (The yellow star at the left hand end of the icon bar).  Click the star, click the orange Feeds button and a listing of your subscriptions will open.  Right click in the list and select Refresh All to pull in new postings from the feeds you've subscribed to, or set it up to automatically check for updates by using the View feed properties link which is on the right side of the screen under the control box once you have subscribed to the feed.  Just tell it how often you want to check for new postings.

And that's it!  You're subscribed and all new postings will be available to you when you are ready to read them without having to surf all over the Net looking for your favorite articles.  To unsubscribe, just delete the feed from your list.

What Is RSS?

You have probably seen those little orange RSS or XML buttons around the Internet.  If you were wondering what they are, they are "the next big thing" in keeping informed.   You can use RSS to get news feeds not only from CNN or BBC, but just about anything else, including news on upcoming movies, DVD releases, your favorite music, and our Daily Shop Notes or Mountain Man Wannabe postings.  Once you get set up your favorite parts of the Web come to you.

"RSS" means "Really Simple Syndication" and when you subscribe to an RSS feed, you can keep up-to-date with that topic without having to go to the website to find out if anything new has been posted.

It's easy to get started.   If you have a web browser with RSS capabilities (Internet Explorer 7, FireFox, etc) you have all you need already (see above for instructions).   If you're using an older version or a brand that doesn't include this capability, you will need to download a free RSS Reader first.  This is special software that reads the RSS feeds.   These work well:

Once you've set one of these up, here's all you have to do... Right-click (control-click for Mac users) on any orange RSS button on a site, blog or news source that interests you, then select Copy Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" for Mac, "Copy Link Location" for Firefox browsers), and paste that URL into your RSS Reader.