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What is RSS?
How can I use RSS?
How do I get a news reader?
What is RSS?
With the millions of websites out there today it is almost
impossible
to keep up with even your most popular sites..
Wouldn't
it be better to have the latest news and features delivered
directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site?
RSS
allows you to see when sites from all over the internet
have
added new content. You can get the latest headlines and
articles
(or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place,
as soon
as they are published, without having to remember to visit
each
site every day.
It
takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date and will give
you
more time to work on your busisness.
RSS
feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to
be read
by computers rather than people. It might help to think
of them as
the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape
news
wire machines.
Not
all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing
rapidly
in popularity and many others, including the Cape Times,
New
York Times and CNN provide it.
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How do I start using RSS feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called
a news
reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds
and
lets you read any new articles that have been added to
them.
There are many different versions, some of which are accessed
using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.
Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your
RSS
feed subscriptions from any computer, whereas downloadable
applications let you store them on your main computer,
in the
same way that you either download your e-mail using
Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.
Once
you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do
is to decide what content you want to receive in your
news
reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS
feeds.
For example, if you would like the latest my1stbusiness.com
News stories, simply visit the Entertainment section
and you will notice an orange RSS button on the left hand
side.
If
you would like the latest my1stbusiness.com News
World video stories, visit the World section of the
my1stbusiness.com News player and click on the RSS button
at the bottom of the World section.
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If
you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed
in various
ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into
your news
reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new
feed in
your news reader. Most sites that offer RSS feeds use
a similar
orange RSS button, but some may just have a normal web
link to
the feed.
Some
browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically
check for RSS feeds for you when you visit a website,
and display
an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing
to RSS feeds
much easier. For more details on these, please check their
websites.
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do I get a news reader?
There is a range of different news readers available
and
new versions are appearing all the time.
Different
news readers work on different operating systems,
so you will need to choose one that will work with
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