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What is RSS?
RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds are an easy and efficient way to receive notification when new information is available in a specific area of interest.
See also the RSS page at Wikipedia
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How Can I Benefit From RSS?
RSS feeds save time, allowing users to receive notification only when new content is available. Web site visitors choose the information they wish to subscribe to and can unsubscribe from any feed at any point.
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How Do I Subscribe to RSS Feeds?
First you will need an RSS feed reader (also called a news aggregator) There are a number of RSS readers available.
RSS readers are simply programs that display the contents of an RSS feed in an easy to read format.
Once you have an RSS reader you simply click the icon or a link to the RSS feed and paste it into your RSS reader. Some readers will auto detect the precense of an RSS feed on a website and you can optionally choose to subscribe.
See also this site for an overview of different rss-readers.
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Bloglines
Bloglines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device.
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Feed Scout
Feed Scout is a handy RSS reading toolbar for Internet Explorer. Feed Scout enables you to view RSS/ATOM/RDF feeds from different sites in Internet Explorer directly. Feed Scout is a toolbar for Internet Explorer, so you don't have to learn anything but 2 new buttons onInternet Explorer toolbar;
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Google ig
Google ig is an (experimental) new service of Google, which allows you to create a personalised homepage on which you can include RSS feeds from different sites.
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My Yahoo
My Yahoo is a free service from Yahoo. You can create a personalised start page. My Yahoo also supports RSS feeds.
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Pluck RSS reader
Pluck RSS Reader is a free software that offers an easy way for you to be alerted when new content appears on your favorite websites and blogs. Just check your Pluck RSS Reader and see all the latest content, all in one place. The software is available for Internet Explorer or Firefox.
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RSS reader
RssReader is a program to read RSS and Atom news feeds.
RssReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window.
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Surfpack
Surfpack is an RSS reader that shows all content as a normal Web page inside Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. The program comes equipped with 2000 RSS feeds grouped in World News, Sports, Home, Computers, High Tech and other categories. You can also use Surfpack web plug-ins to access your Hot Favorites groups, more than 100 popular and specialized search engines, your latest downloaded files, Check Later Links and auto-generated lists of the Most Popular and Regularly Visited Sites right from your home page
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