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Get Started with HTC BlinkFeed on Your HTC One M8

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You are watching VisiHow. Today, we are going to show you how to get started with HTC BlinkFeed on the HTC One M8 smartphone.

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Steps

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Double-tap the screen or press the power button at the top of the phone to unlock it
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The lock screen will be shown.
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Swipe up to unlock the phone
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This will bring up the main area. In this tutorial, the BlinkFeed is already open, which is how the phone should look when it is turned on and unlocked.
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Swipe right if BlinkFeed news is not on the screen
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This will bring out the "Highlights" menu, which gives the option to search for content by tapping the text box with "Search for highlights", see the highlights, or get to the settings menu.
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Tap the icon with three vertical dots to open up various options available in the settings menu
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Tap "Services & Apps"
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A single press on "Services & Apps" will open up a menu with services and applications. The menu is always up-to-date. For this tutorial, Twitter and "Restaurant recommendations" have been recently updated.
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Tap the "Google+" line
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It will launch the Google+ application. Google+ will warn you that it wants to obtain certain privileges in the phone. It will require to view the profile, view and manage its own configuration data in the Google Drive, manage and view Google+ posts, comments, and stream, and view the Google+ circles, people, and pages.
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Tap "Cancel" if the privileges should not be given to the application
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The button is located in the bottom left corner of the screen.
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Tap "Sign-in" to give the privileges and sign in with the associated e-mail account and password
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For this example, the VisiHow@gmail.com account will appear under the "Google+" line in the "Services & Apps" menu, and there will be a green box with a check next to it.
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Scroll down and add something else if needed
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Tap the arrow in the upper-left corner near "Services & Apps" to go back to the BlinkFeed screen
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Scroll down to check BlinkFeed
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There are different newsfeeds and different bits and pieces of information.
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Swipe right if something else needs to be added to the BlinkFeed
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Google+ is going to show up in the menu, as it can be seen.
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Tap the three vertical lines to open up the settings menu
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Tap "Add content"
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Now, things can be added to BlinkFeed. For the tutorial, "Headline News", "Business", "Environment", and "Gaming" are going to be selected.
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Tap the first option to be added
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It is "Headline News" for this example. Once the option loads, there will be the choice to select the location of headline news. As a lot of people are getting news from Associated Press and Reuters, the rest, The Huffington Post, Headline News, AFP, and Euronews, are going to be left unchecked.
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Tap the news sources
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Several options can be selected.
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen
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In the video, the button is tapped twice, and this will bring up the initial screen, which is too far from the "Add content" options.
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To get back to the "Add content" screen, swipe right
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Tap the three vertical lines to open up the settings menu
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Tap "Add content"
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Tap the next option to be added
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In this example, it is "Business".
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Select either "Business Highlights" or "Bloomberg" or both
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For the example, only Bloomberg is selected because Bloomberg shows both trending news and business highlights. Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen. This will bring up the previous screen, "Add content".
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Tap the next option to be added
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In this example, it is "Environment".
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Tap the "Environment Highlights" option to select it and get an overview of environment highlights
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen
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This will bring up the previous screen, "Add content".
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Tap the next option to be added
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In this example, it is "Gaming".
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Tap "Gaming Highlights"
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen
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This will bring up the previous screen, "Add content".
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To change the language of highlights, press and hold "Add content" in the upper section of the screen
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The options to change the language from Global English to a whole variety of languages will be given.
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Select the appropriate language
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen to cancel the selection
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen to go back
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This will bring up the BlinkFeed screen that will be updating. Once it is updated, the highlights, or news, will be visible. Now, a whole selection of news specific to the items selected in the previous steps will be shown.
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Scroll down to a required item that is deemed interesting
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Tap the item
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For example, the item with big trucks. There is news on Dead State: Reanimated on Steam. This is just an example.
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Tap the back arrow in the upper left corner of the screen to go back to BlinkFeed
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Scroll back up to "Highlights" if the main menu needs to be accessed
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To remove content from BlinkFeed, swipe right
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Tap the three vertical lines to open up the settings menu
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Tap "Remove content"
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Tap on the required content to be removed
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This will expand the selection. For the tutorial, it is "Environment".
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Tap the items that need to be removed
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It will place an "x" in the check box next to the item.
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Tap "CANCEL" at the bottom of the screen to cancel content removal
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Tap "REMOVE (*)" to remove the selected content
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The asterisk will have the number of selected items. The selected content will be removed, and BlinkFeed will be updated.
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Tap the hotdog menu or swipe right to see the selected content for BlinkFeed
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The removed content will be no longer visible in the "Highlights" menu.
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Tap the three vertical lines to open up the settings menu
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Tap the "Settings" option
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Tap "Auto refresh" to change the way the BlinkFeed will be updated
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By default, it is set to automatic updating when the phone is connected to a WiFi network.
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Tap "Reading list" to change the reading-list set-up
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Tap "Offline news reading" to turn offline news reading off or on
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Tap "Full Article" if textual and visual information must be stored for offline use
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Tap "Text only" to receive only textual data for reading offline
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Sometimes, it is important to receive business highlights and other information when the phone is not connected to the Internet. For instance, business information might be important and crucial and must be readily available on a subway train, between major cities, and where the connection is poor.
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Tap "Choose Highlights topics" to choose which topics should be highlighted
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It may be important to keep the topics highlighted. However, when travelling, Google+, Calendar, Zoe, and TV might be not interesting.
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Tap options to check or uncheck them
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Tap "CANCEL" to discard the changes
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Tap "DONE" to accept the changes
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In the video, the information available for offline viewing will be textual versions of articles.
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Tap the hotdog menu or swipe right to see the content selected
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The removed content will be no longer visible.
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Tap the three vertical lines to open up the settings menu
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Tap "Tips & Help" if you need tips and help
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All of the information about HTC BlinkFeed and additional details on the HTC phone, which was not discussed in this tutorial, are listed here.
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Tap the back arrow button or the home button at the bottom of the phone when everything has been done
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The BlinkFeed screen will be brought up.
This concludes the tutorial on how to use the HTC BlinkFeed on the HTC One M8. Thank you for choosing VisiHow! Hopefully, this tutorial has assisted you in setting up your own BlinkFeeds, and everything with newsfeeds is sorted out so that your HTC One M8 does everything you wanted it to do. Do not forget to let us know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions, in the area provided below. Thank you!
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