Starting up:
Up on the first time starting up, you will be given the chance to subscibe to a set of channels pre-picked by BeetzStream:
If you select "Yes", it will start to downlad a set of pre-selected channels for BeetzStream.
If you select "No", the empty main screen will display, and you can add your own channels later.
Reading news - the Category/Channel view:
Top panel shows all the channels in your subscription in a tree view, grouped by categories.
Bottom panel shows article titles in the selected channel in the tree view. If the selected item in the tree view is a category, article titles from the first channel in that category is shown.
Up/Down keys on the D-pad or the number 2/8 keys will scroll up/down in the top tree view.
Left/Right keys on the D-pad or the number 4/6 keys will scroll up/down in the bottom article title view.
Enter key on the D-pad or the number 5 key will show article body in the article view.
News can be retrieved from the menu.
Channel/Category can be marked as read from the main menu.
Reading news - the Article view:
Top left corner shows how many un-read articles remain in current channel.
An orange square will show in the top left corner if current article has not been read before.
Jump to an article from the top list box that contains all the articles in current channel.
"D-pad mode": press the "5" key on the D-pad to toggle on/off of the "D-pad mode", indicated by the 
icon in the top right corner. When the "D-pad mode" is on, Up/Down keys on the D-pad will scroll to Previous/Next article; Left key on the D-pad will go back to the category/channel tree view; when the "D-pad mode" is off, directional keys on the D-pad will scroll the browser content, if there are scroll bars in the browser.
Select the "Back" menu item or press the number "4" key to go back to Category/Channel view.
Images in articles can be disabled from the browser setting menu.
From the browser setting menu, images in articles can also be set to be pre-fetched while retrieving news, this gives a full offline reading experience.
Adding Channels:
There are a number of ways to add a channel to the subscription list:
Import .opml file: .opml files are essentially text xml files. Most desktop rss readers can generate .opml files. You have to drop your .opml file onto the device before you choose this option.
Import from Bloglines: Bloglines is a free online rss reader. Sign up for an account and you can store all your feeds there and then import them into SmartRss.
Choose from BeetzStream's picks. This is the same channel list presented to you at start up when there is no subscription in the list.
Type an Url: The old way to add a channel. Typing an Url on a Pocket PC is not something we recommend, this should be your last choice of adding a channel.
Choose "Import .opml file" and selecting your opml file, "Import from Bloglines" or "BeetzStream's picks" will bring you to the OPML browser:
It lists all the available feeds, group by categories.
Press the "Enter/OK" key or number 5 key to select/deselect channel(s) you wanted to import, then click the "Import" menu to start the process.
Selection can also be done from the menu.
Choose "Type an Url will bring you to this dialog:
The news retrieving screen and when it's done:
Podcasts:
Menu Walk Through:
"Get News" - you can get news for
All channels in your subscription.
The channel you are current reading.
The current category.
"Subscriptions":
You cab add/edit a channel; mark all items in a channel/category as read; export your subscription to an .OPML file.
"Subscriptions/Edit Channel":
You can edit the url for a existing channel from here.
"Subscriptions/Categories":
You can assign a category name to a channel, so channels with the same category can be grouped together for easy reading.
SmartRss only supports one level of categorization, i.e. no sub-categories.
Top list box shows selected channel and the current category it's in.
Bottom list box shows available categories and the text box shows the category the selected channel will be assign to.
Select the channel you want to categorize from the top list box, select a category from the bottom list box, or, type in a new category name, select the assign menu complete the assign process.
"Podcasts":
You can only play a complete downloaded podcast. Player can be configed from podcast settings.
If a podcast is detected in current article, you can donwload it from the download menu.
You can only delete a podcast if it has been complete downloaded or the job has been stopped.
"Podcasts Searching":
"In all channels", "In current channel", and "In current category" will search articles for podcasts and bring up the podcast list.
"View":
Toggle the "New articles only" menu item will show or hide the read articles.
The "Channels" menu item is only enabled in article view, to allow you "back" to channel view.
"Settings":
"Wrap Text" toggles how the article headlines are displayed - wrapped full length or truncated single line.
"Context Menu" and "Today Screen" are only available for the PPC version.
"Settings/Podcast Settings":
"Download new podcasts automatically": when it's checked, while news are retrieved, SmartRss will look for podcasts in the news, if found, they will be added to the download list, and download when a downloading slot is available.
Resume unfinished downloads on startup": If you exit SmartRss while a podcast downloading process is in progress, the downloading job will be stopped. If this check box is checked, next time you start SmartRss, the stopped job will be resumed.
Low storage space warning limit (MB)": Threshold for downloading podcast media. If this limit is reached, all downloading jobs will be paused until more space is made available.
"Max. simultaneous downloads": Also known as downloading slots, determines how many podcast downloading jobs can be started at the same time. 2 or 3 is a good number on a Pocket PC.
"Use user selected player": when you play a podcast, it will be played by the default player that associated with the media. If you want to use a different player, set its full path here.
"Send download completion notification": when it's checked, when a downloading job is completed, a Windows CE notification will be sent.
"Settings/Other Settings":
Number of items per channel, data path and font size can be set here.
If you download large podcast files, you should set the data path to an external SD card.
"Settings/Schedules":
A schedule can be set to retrieving news and start SmartRss.
SmartRss start time is in 24h format, e.g. 15:38.