Give yourself 10 minutes time to learn about RSS. It can save you a lot of time in the future.



The quickest way to get
new information from my website
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What is RSS?

In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a drag.

Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site?

RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the Internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.

It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity and many others, including the Guardian, New York Times and CNN do provide it. And now HouseInPhuket also. You can recognize an "RSS feed" on a website on this logo:

How do I start using RSS feeds?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of 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.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest info from HouseInPhuket, simply visit my homepage and you will notice an orange RSS button.

How do I get a RSS news reader?

If you are using a good secure browser, like Firefox, it's quite simple. But many people use the insecure, standard browser pre-installed on their computer, the Internet Explorer from Microsoft ("the blue e": ) . That browser cannot (yet) read RSS so you have to install a separate program (see 1).

There are at least 4 ways to read RSS:

1 Download and install an RSS reader:
for Windows or for Mac OS X or for Linux

or

2 Read RSS from a RSS website:
Bloglines My Yahoo! NewsGator

3 Firefox: Built-in reader
Detailed information if you use the browser Firefox

4 Firefox: RSS extension
Detailed information if you use the browser Firefox


Once you setup the option of your choice you can add our feed to you RSS reader:

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