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What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to see when websites have added new content. You can view the latest headlines and articles in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.
RSS allows you to stay up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.
RSS feeds are 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.
How to start using RSS
The first thing you need is some software called a news reader. This checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are several versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some 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.
News readers include:-
Once you have a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest Bridgend Town Cricket Club news simply click on the blue button labeled RSS. You can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including dragging the web address of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.
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.