Before we get started, I’d like to remind you to set your clocks forward one hour this Sunday morning, April 3rd (if you’re still awake at 2:00 AM). Of course, if you’re in Arizona, Hawaii, the part of Indiana located in the Eastern time zone, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands or outside of the United States, feel free to leave your clocks alone, since you’re probably not part of this ritual. This is not an April Fool’s joke!

Mozilla’s Thunderbird, in addition to being a great email client replacement for Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Mail, also provides classic RSS feed reading capability. The presentation is similar to email: the feeds you’ve subscribed to are listed in the folders pane, as if they were email folders. Feed headlines are listed in the message-list pane, as if they were email subject lines. When you click on a feed headline, the content will be displayed in the message preview pane, as if it was an email message.

To subscribe to a feed, click on Manage Subscriptions, give it the URL of the feed (to subscribe to my feed, use http://feeds.feedburner.com/Free-RSS-Resources), tell it where to store the articles and whether you want to see a summary or the whole article when you read the feed.

There’s a step-by-step description here.

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