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RSS & Mac OS X for beginners, using NetNewsWire Lite

So, you read the first part of this series and are now excited about the possibility of subscribing to feeds for sites you like. I now propose to give some step-by-step instructions for how to do that, whether you use Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer on Mac OS X or Windows. This article concentrates on the Mac, specifically how to set up and use my free feed reader of choice, NetNewsWire Lite from Newsgator. Over the coming weeks I will be giving advice on how to do something similar using Web-based services, which you can access from anywhere there's an Internet connection.

The principles of subscribing to a feed

When you want to subscribe to a site, there are three steps you have to take. Keep these in mind and you've won half the battle:

  1. Find out if the site /