What Is RSS?

"Really Simple Syndication"

You may have been seeing those little orange RSS or XML buttons around the Internet. If you were wondering what they are...

RSS is "the next big thing" - you can use it to get newsfeeds from BBC or CNN, as well as just about anything else, including news and information about your hobbies, business interests and on forthcoming movies, DVD releases, your favorite musician's tour updates, etc.

Once you get started, it's like having your favorite parts of the Web come to you. No need to go out and check for updates all the time.

What RSS means to you is that when you subscribe to a site that has an RSS feed, you can keep up-to-date without having to check the site every day or week.

How do you get started? It's very straightforward!

If you use Internet Explorer version 7 or later, there is an easy way to use RSS which is fully explained in the help section.

If you don't, or if you prefer :-

Download a free RSS Reader first. 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 any orange RSS button on a site, blog or news source that interests you. Start by right-clicking on the orange button below. Then...

Select Copy Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" for Mac, "Copy Link Location" for Firefox browsers), and paste that URL into your RSS Reader.

And that's it! You're subscribed.


Right-click and get started.

Don't want to download new software?
Subscribe through My Yahoo! or My MSN or Google...


Add better-photographs.com RSS to your "My Yahoo!"


Add better-photographs.com RSS to your "My MSN"


Add better-photographs.com RSS to your Google homepage.

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