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What are News Feeds?
RSS (Really Simple
Syndication) is a system web sites use to summarise
their content and make it available to others. RSS
News Feeds allow other sites to display portions of
their content and allow users with feed readers to
quickly see what's new.
For more detailed
information about RSS, visit
Wikipedia |
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How do I use News
Feeds?
Whenever you see the
orange News Feeds icon
there is a link to a News feed. Direct your
favourite RSS news feed reader to the destination of
the link to subscribe to the feed. Refer to your
feed reader's user guide for how to do this.
Depending on the feed reader you are using, you may
be able to simply drag the icon into your reader to
subscribe.
The web sites whose
feeds you subscribe to receive no personal
information about you. You receive only what you are
subscribed to, no spam in your email, and you can
unsubscribe at any time by removing the link from
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What is a Feed Reader?
An RSS news feed reader (also called a news reader
or aggregator) visits websites on your behalf,
collects summaries of their content, and presents
them to you together in one place. Feed readers can
usually be configured to only display what is new
since the last time it checked, saving you the time
of visiting all those web sites yourself just to see
if they have been updated. Along with the summary
will be a link back to the full article on the
original web site so that you can visit if you are
interested in reading more.
RSS news feed readers can be grouped into two broad
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Online Feed Readers
Online readers are
services with an HTML interface and are accessible
to anyone with a web browser. An active connection
to the Internet is required to use one of these
services.
There are numerous
online RSS news feed reader services available. Most
major portal sites provide this facility. Some of
the most popular are listed below.
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Offline Feed Readers
Offline readers are
programs, similar to e-mail clients, which download
news items and store them on your local machine for
you to browse at your leisure, even when you have
disconnected from the Internet.
We cannot recommend a
particular RSS news feed reader as the choice would
depend on factors such as the platform your computer
runs on. One that works on one machine might not
work on another. To find the right RSS news feed
reader for you, try visiting Google's directory for
an extensive
list of RSS news feed readers
compatible with many platforms. |
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Browser Support
Some web browsers now
offer native support for RSS news feeds. The latest
versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's
Firefox, Opera, and Apple'sSafari all have some
degree of support for RSS news feeds. If you use one
of these browsers you may not need to install a
third party RSS news feed reader or news aggregator
program.
Browsers supporting
RSS feeds.
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Apple Safari |
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IPA News Feeds,
click here
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