![]() ![]() I wish there was a way to examine recent job history. It seems silly that each translator has to add an extra process (RSS stuff) just to level the playing field. While I love Gengo in most respects, I wish the job-getting or job-allocating process was a little more transparent. (It happened once, and support eventually solved the problem, but looks like it's back again, or else there really are few jobs, and they are all being grabbed in less than 5 minutes.) I'm perplexed as to why my job e-mail notification seems to have stopped again. I've gotten two whole jobs so far this year, and saw two e-mails about jobs I didn't get a week or so ago. I guess I won't know for sure if it's working until a job actually pops up, and that may be a while. Note-I've been translating for Gengo for almost a year, and haven't used an RSS reader, but lately it seems either jobs are going so fast that they're snapped up before an e-mail goes out, or else I'm not getting job notification e-mails again (I stopped getting e-mail notifications last year for a while, and had to have support fix that, but it took several tries before they understood what the problem was, and a while longer to fix it, and I don't want to go through that struggle again). (I would use it only for the available job feed.) Trouble is, jobs come up so rarely, it's hard to tell if the reader is working-I have no idea what to expect!Īny information about the Simple RSS Reader would be great, or even suggestions on what reader works best with (the latest) Firefox. I'm worried that I might be doing something (too frequently accessing the available jobs) contrary to Gengo's policies. But looking at the little info bar the add-on installed near the top of my page, it looks like it's refreshing every five seconds! Under preferences / general, I set it to "change message" every 60 seconds (that's the only place I can find that has any time/frequency setting at all). I use Firefox and just installed Simple RSS Reader. You can then on the updates for the feed page to be opened in a new tab.I know there are already a few threads on this topic, but some are pretty old, and tech stuff changes quickly, so I thought I'd bring up this subject again because I have some questions. If you prefer to view the RSS feed inside the Chrome browser, you can try a built-in feed reader such as which will notify you of updates with an icon next to the URL bar of the browser. Go to the Chrome web store to look for these extensions. If you use Google Chrome, there are various browser extensions you can download which will allow you to download RSS feeds to your external feed reader. On these pages you can add the feed that you are currently viewing to your "Live Bookmarks" by simply clicking the icon. If you use Firefox to browse lists of newly inventoried titles, you will also notice a small icon ( ) in the top right corner of the address bar (or lower right corner of the browser window, depending on your version). Selecting a link from within your Live Bookmark will take you to the complete entry for that post on our site. Click the "Subscribe Now" button, choose a location for the bookmark, and click "Add." Clicking on that bookmark will now give you a list of all new items for the selected feed-this list will be updated automatically as changes are made to our website. At the top of the browser page, Firefox will give you the option to subscribe to the page using "Live Bookmarks". To add a new "Live Bookmark," click on one of the feed links to the right. Mozilla Firefox uses "Live Bookmarks" to load content from RSS feeds into the Bookmarks menu. Once you have set up your reader, you can subscribe to a feed by clicking on the appropriate RSS button and copying the RSS URL (in the address bar of your browser) into your reader.Ī number of browsers also have the ability to read RSS feeds. This may be a free reader like Feedly or Newsblur. To make use of RSS feeds you need a reader capable of displaying their content. RSS feeds are generally identified by an orange RSS or XML button (such as those on the right side of this page). Instead of repeatedly visiting a website and browsing for fresh content, you can "subscribe" to a site's RSS feeds and be alerted to changes through an aggregator or RSS reader. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a means of keeping up with changing content on a website. ![]()
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