How to install an RSS feed of updates of SCIA Engineer?

What is an RSS-feed?

Wouldn't it be interesting to get a notification, without visiting a website, when a new patch/version of SCIA Engineer is published on the SCIA website ?

This is possible when you use RSS.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is actually a piece of information on the internet that contains a title, a summary and a link to the news-item. A “news reader” (see further) collects at regular intervals all new news-items and sends it to the subscriber who can read this feed whenever he likes.

The RSS-feed that contains the most recent SCIA Engineer updates, is:

http://www.scia-software.nl/SciaEngineerUpdatesAtom.xml

How to setup an RSS-feed?

The news-items of an RSS-feed are collected by a "news reader".

There are several (free) "news readers" available:

* as separate "news reader" programs, such as:

Feedreader
Greatnews
Newzie
Sharpreader

* as a functionality in internet browsers, such as:

Internet Explorer 7 en 8
Mozilla Firefox
Google Mail

Feedreader
Feedreader is a free "news reader", and can be downloaded at: http://www.feedreader.com/download

Add a new RSS-feed:

Open Feedreader and select File > New > Feed

Copy the url of the feed to the field below "Add feed", and click the [OK]-button.
The url is: http://www.scia-online.com/update/SciaEngineerUpdatesAtom.xml

The titles of the available news-items will appear in the list below the url.

Read an RSS-feed:

You can configure Feedreader so that it automatically notifies the user when a new news-item is published.
Therefore you must setup Feedreader that it starts automatically when your computer starts.

Open Feedreader and go to the Options menu with Tools > Options:

Select the same options as in the example below, and click afterwards the [OK]-button:

The Feedreader will appear on the bottom right of your screen in the tray-menu.

When there is no new news-item, then the icon is grey.
When there is a new news-item, then the icon becomes orange. When you click the icon, then Feedreader will open and you can read the news-items.

Internet Explorer 7 en 8

Add a new RSS-feed:

Click the RSS-logo, or copy following link to Internet Explorer:
http://www.scia-software.nl/SciaEngineerUpdatesAtom.xml
Now you surf to the page with all news-items about the Scia Engineer versions.

Click in the yellow rectangle on 'Subcribe to this feed'
Give a name, and click the [Subscribe] button.

Read an RSS-feed:
Click the star in the menu to see all subscribed feeds.
Select the "SCIA Engineer - Latest Service Packs"-feed to see the latest news about this topic.