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You've probably started noticing icons like these two on some of the websites you visit on a regular basis:
What do they mean? It means that the website has "RSS" or "Real Simple Syndication" feeds available.
What's RSS? Perhaps there are some websites that you visit on a regular basis for news and information. With news sites, the content changes on a very regular basis. They are "dynamic" as opposed to "static" websites.
Rather than you having to visit the site every day to find out what's changed, the site delivers it's content to you in the form of perhaps a headline, a brief snippet of the story and a link to the site. It's an alternative to having your e-mail box loaded up with articles from a mailing list that you may or may not have time to read.
There are many programmes that handle RSS feeds so you have alot of choices available. There are "stand alone" RSS feed programmes, e-mail programmes that have RSS features, web browsers and web-based tools.
Since I stopped using Window$ at home a couple of years ago, I'm afraid I'm not "up" on standalone RSS feed programmes for that particular operating system! Funny how that happens! One I have used for Linux is called "Akregator". Akregator is free and open source.
If you use a Linux distro that uses the KDE 3.4 GUI or newer, Akregator is included in the distro. If not, you can ususally install it through your distro's package management system in about a minute.
One excellent free and open source RSS Feed Reader programme is "RSS Owl". RSS Owl has versions available for Windows, both 32 and 64 Bit Linux, MacOSX and the Solaris version of Unix. To get you started, RSS Owl has already pre-configured a number of RSS Feed URL's into the software.
The free and open source Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail programme has support for RSS feeds. Mozilla Thunderbird is "cross-platform" (with versions available for Window$, MacOSX and Linux/Unix). You can subscribe to RSS feeds using the "News and Blogs" feature.
You simply "copy and paste" the URL of the RSS feed into your RSS reader. It's that easy! No more e-mail clutter, no need to "sign-up" to subscribe to an e-mail list.
The free (but proprietary) Opera web browser also incorporates an RSS feed reader. Again, Opera is cross-platform and works on Window$, MacOS, Unix, Linux, QNX, BeOS and OS/2.
You can also subscribe to RSS Feeds through commercial online services such as "My Yahoo!".
| SLASHDOT.ORG | THE REGISTER | GEEK NEWS CENTRAL | OS NEWS |
| ZDNET | ZD NET UK | CNET | EWEEK |
| PC World.com | PC Mag.com | WIRED NEWS | The Inquirer |
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SIMPLE SYNDICATION (RSS FEEDS)You've probably started noticing icons like these two on some of the websites you visit on a regular basis:
What do they mean? It means that the website has "RSS" or "Real Simple Syndication" feeds available.
What's RSS? Perhaps there are some websites that you visit on a regular basis for news and information. With news sites, the content changes on a very regular basis. They are "dynamic" as opposed to "static" websites.
Rather than you having to visit the site every day to find out what's changed, the site delivers it's content to you in the form of perhaps a headline, a brief snippet of the story and a link to the site. It's an alternative to having your e-mail box loaded up with articles from a mailing list that you may or may not have time to read.
There are many programmes that handle RSS feeds so you have alot of choices available. There are "stand alone" RSS feed programmes, e-mail programmes that have RSS features, web browsers and web-based tools.
Since I stopped using Window$ at home a couple of years ago, I'm afraid I'm not "up" on standalone RSS feed programmes for that particular operating system! Funny how that happens! One I have used for Linux is called "Akregator". Akregator is free and open source.
If you use a Linux distro that uses the KDE 3.4 GUI or newer, Akregator is included in the distro. If not, you can ususally install it through your distro's package management system in about a minute.
One excellent free and open source RSS Feed Reader programme is "RSS Owl". RSS Owl has versions available for Windows, both 32 and 64 Bit Linux, MacOSX and the Solaris version of Unix. To get you started, RSS Owl has already pre-configured a number of RSS Feed URL's into the software.
The free and open source Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail programme has support for RSS feeds. Mozilla Thunderbird is "cross-platform" (with versions available for Window$, MacOSX and Linux/Unix). You can subscribe to RSS feeds using the "News and Blogs" feature.
You simply "copy and paste" the URL of the RSS feed into your RSS reader. It's that easy! No more e-mail clutter, no need to "sign-up" to subscribe to an e-mail list.
The free (but proprietary) Opera web browser also incorporates an RSS feed reader. Again, Opera is cross-platform and works on Window$, MacOS, Unix, Linux, QNX, BeOS and OS/2.
You can also subscribe to RSS Feeds through commercial online services such as "My Yahoo!".
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