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3.9. Lab Exercise
Exercise 1. You use Liferea as a newsreader on your computer. Recently, you met a friend who informed you about a Web site that offers RSS feeds, http://www.lifehacker.com. Now, you want to configure Liferea for the latest updates from this Web site.
1. Open the following Web site http://www.lifehacker.com. This site offers RSS feeds.
2. In the left pane, under syndication, click Full content (with ads). Save the URL in the Address bar of Mozilla Firefox. This URL, http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full, is the feed.
3. Open Liferea.
4. Right-click in the left pane, point to New and click New Subscription. The New Subscription dialogue box is displayed.
5. In the New Subscription dialogue box, type the saved URL http://feeds.gawker.com/lifehacker/full and click OK.
Exercise 2. You want to chat with your friend, who uses Google talk (gtalk). Configure Pidgin to chat using gtalk.
1. On the Applications menu, point to Internet and click Pidgin Internet Messenger.
2. On the Accounts menu, click Add/Edit. The Accounts window is displayed.
3. In the Accounts window, click Add. The Add Account window is displayed.
4. In the Add Account window, select xmpp from the Protocol box, type your gtalk e-mail id in the Screen name box, your account password in the Password box and your nickname in the Local alias box. Click Save.
5. You are now connected to the gtalk server.