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What is RSS?
Click on any orange RSS button to get the latest
Web pages from this site.
You can use them anywhere else on the Web (they're everywhere nowadays)
to get newsfeeds from CNN or BBC, or just about anything else,
including news on upcoming movies and DVD releases, your favourite
musician's tour updates, etc.
Once you get started, it's like having your
favourite parts of the Web come to you. No need to go out and check for
updates all the time. No need for bookmarks!
"RSS" means "Really Simple Syndication." But
that's just a fancy way of saying that you can keep up with all the
updates to this site without having to check the site
every week to see "what's new." New pages and updates to old ones are
released through RSS.
How do you get started?
Easy!
You can subscribe to an RSS feed easily in
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Firefox wherever you see this icon:-
(No, you can't
subscribe using this icon, it is just an example!)
Popular e-mail clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla
Thunderbird also support RSS. There are countless desktop
widgets and gadgets
that support RSS reading.
You can also download a free
RSS Reader. This is special software that reads the RSS feeds...
Windows -- RssReader
http://www.rssreader.com/
Mac -- NetNewsWire
http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Once you're set up, here's all you have to do...
Right-click (control-click
for Mac users) on the orange RSS button on any page of this site, or
any blog or news source that interests you. Select Copy
Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" on a Mac), and paste
that URL into your RSS Reader.
That's it! You'll be subscribed.
You can also use a Web-based RSS reader, like My
Yahoo!, My MSN, or iGoogle/Google Reader. Look for any of these buttons
on a page on this site.
Click on that button to add the RSS feed to that
Web-based reader. If you don't yet have an account, you can set up one
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