To delete a feed from Sky Ticker, select Options from the Sky Ticker toolbar, highlight the feed you wish to delete and select Remove.
Sky Ticker displays stories published within the last 7 days from your chosen RSS feeds in a random order. If you take feeds from a 24 hour service like Sky News, you can choose newer feeds by editing the "Don't show items older than..." field in Preferences:
· Use the drop-down menu to change "Days" to "Hours" or
· Reduce the number of Days or Hours.
You can also adjust the frequency at which Sky Ticker checks for new updates in the Feeds tab of the Options pop-up.
You can export your favourite RSS feed from Sky Ticker on one computer, and then import that list to another computer running Sky Ticker. To export the list, open the Options pop-up and click the Export button and save the file. Next, send this file to your second computer (you could use a USB memory stick or email it to yourself), open Sky Ticker on your second machine. open the Options pop-up and use the Import button. Browse to your file and select it. Your second computer will now follow all the feeds you had on your first computer.
If you visit a website and notice it displays the RSS icon then feeds are available (see our illustration for an example). To add a new feed to Sky Ticker, select Add feed on the Sky Ticker toolbar, insert the web address (URL) of the feed you would like to receive stories from into the Add Feed box and select OK. The site will now be checked for live feeds, and new stories from this site will be displayed on your Sky Ticker.
If you use Mozilla Firefox on Windows you can set Sky Ticker as your main feed reader by selecting the feed icon on a website, then select “Choose Application…” from the drop-down menu and browse to Sky Ticker in the list of Program files. Check “Always use Sky Ticker to subscribe to feeds” to make Firefox add feeds to Sky Ticker when you select a feed icon.
Sky makes a broad range of its website content updates available as RSS feeds which you can find in our Sky Ticker directory.
To give you fresh headlines every day, each story is automatically cleared from Sky Ticker after being read. If a story is of particular interest, you can save it to your favourites, and it will then be stored for as long as the story persists in the ticker. Select the required story and select the star icon on the pop-up. Select Read Starred Items on the Sky Ticker toolbar to view your favourite stories.
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