Saturday, July 30, 2005

RSS Feeds

I have recently added an RSS feed to my blog. If you don't have a clue what "RSS" stands for, don't be ashamed. It's very new. Even I don't know what it means. I do know what it does though. If you have a Windows PC then you can download Net News Wire Lite for free just do a Yahoo search for Net News Wire, which will takes you to the website. If you have a Mac(like me) you can also download Net News Wire Light, or if your Mac was purchased after April 2005, or has Mac OS X Tiger installed you can go into the Safari browser, and type in my website's URL. On Safari it will say RSS and you can then get an RSS Feed of my blog. RSS feeds are a very fast growing trend because they can update things as soon as they come out, so you can read the headlines of any newspaper, or many blogs (like mine) even when you are offline. Newspapers put their articles out on the RSS feeds the minute that they are edited. For example, I read tomorrows headlines of New York Times articles at 3:09 this afternoon. As with the newspapers, this website gets the posts converted to RSS headlines as soon as I click the publish button on the bottom of this webpage.

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