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RSS Probe Help

How to Use

Entry List

The Entry List comes up when you launch the app. Unread titles are white and read ones gray. You can show or hide the snippet beneath the title as below to preview its body text, by the Show Preview setting. [see help]
Entry List
  • Tap the upper-left/right triangles to navigate feeds.
  • Tap the title or Details Icon to read the entry.
  • The bullet is blue when unread, and gray when read. You can toggle its status by tapping it.
  • Tap the bottom-left Feed List Icon to go to the feed list.
  • Tap the bottom-center Refresh Icon to immediately refresh the list.
  • Tap the bottom-right Settings Icon to open the settings panel. [see help]

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Individual Entry Page

On the entry panel you can read it, share it by tapping the bottom left Extra Actions Icon to send an email or tweet.
Individual Entry
  • Tap the upper-left Close Icon to go back to the entry list.
  • Tap the bottom-left Actions Icon for some extra actions - You can open the original page with Safari, send it by email, tweet on it or see the Twitter timeline. [see Twitter features help]
  • Tap the Up/Down arrows on the bottom to navigate entries within the feed.
  • Tap the bottom-right Web Viewer Icon to see the original page with the in-app Web viewer without launching Safari.

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Feed List

You can see the feed list by tapping Feed List Icon at the bottom left on the entry list. Here you can quickly access to each feed.
Feed List
  • The number of unread entries is in the red icon. You can mark all as read by tapping it.
  • Tap Update All Feeds button to refresh all the feeds at once. During the process you can quit it by tapping the "X" icon.
  • Tap Mark All As Read button to mark all the entries in every feed as read at once.

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Twitter Features

You can tweet about the entry, or see your timeline without tweeting, by tapping the bottom Extra Actions Icon of the entry page or the Web viewer.
Enter your Twitter username (or email address) and password when selecting these menu items for the first time. [ Learn More ]

Below is the sample Post to Twitter panel; Enter your tweet then tap the upper right Post button. When the posting completed, the latest Twitter timeline will come up. You can check it even without tweeting by choosing Show Twitter Timeline menu.
Post to Twitter PanelTwitter Timeline Panel
  • Tap Shorten URL button to convert the URL before posting.
  • Tap Clear button to discard your input.
  • You can see how many characters left for you to type on. The number will turn into yellow when only four letters left, then red when the tweet goes over 140 characters.
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Evernote Features

You can select Save with Evernote option by tapping the bottom Extra Actions Icon of the entry page or the Web viewer.
Enter your Evernote username and password for the first time.

Just edit your note then tap the upper-right Save button.
You can switch the target notebooks or put tags on your note.

* To create another notebook or define new tags, you need to sign in the Evernote website.

About Settings

Setting Options

To add or delete feeds and change settings, tap the bottom-right Settings Icon on the entry list. To save any change, tap the upper-right Done.
Settings
  • Tap the upper-left Add Icon to add feeds.
    [ Learn More ]
  • Tap Delete Icon for each feed to delete it.
  • Drag Sort Icon for each feed to change the order.
  • Auto Update: You can specify the interval for automatic refreshing. Select None to disable the feature.
  • Show Preview: You can show the snippet beneath each title in the entry list to preview the body text.
  • Evernote Account: You can enter your Evernote username and password to save notes.

In iPhone Settings you can select some more options for RSS Probe.
  • Update on startup: You can refresh all the feeds on launching the app.
  • Show Unread Count: You can show the number of unread entries on iPhone Home panel.
  • Reset on startup: Turn on this setting when you need to reset the Twitter account. Then you can re-enter your Twitter username and password for the next time.

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How to Add Feeds

Besides the manual input for an individual feed URL, you can import more than one URLs at once from an OPML file. [ Learn More ]
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