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What are RSS Feeds?

RSS feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get the latest news, programmes and articles, as soon as they go live, without having to visit the website you have taken the feed from.

There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people agree it stands for 'Really Simple Syndication'. In essence, the feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather than people.


How can I use these feeds?

The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software (most are free) that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser (Internet explorer or Firefox etc), and some of which are downloadable applications which run on your PC or Mac.

Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions from any computer as they do not rely on the software being installed on that computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your main computer, this works in a similar fashion to using your e-mail and saving your received mail in Outlook express or Thunderbird.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want it to receive. For example, if you would like the latest Box424 programme list, simply click the orange RSS icon at the far end of the address bar at the top of your browser. You will then get the option to subscribe to the feed do so ad the Box424 feed will be added to your browser.

If you

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