RSS - now i see how you do it!!

shifty_uk · 7 May 2006 at 17:34

I still don't understand how to use RSS, what to do with it or what exactly it is :confused:

Scythe · 7 May 2006 at 17:57

I just have Clanbase News & BBC News | Technology

cyKey · 7 May 2006 at 18:48

Mine

<3 Bloglines. Saves me having to sync the list of feeds between computers n everything.

Also, My Daily Photoblog RSS Feed with images

Get new image each day to brighten up your day

Al Vallario · 7 May 2006 at 18:57

There are people who don't know what RSS is? :eek:

Get wiki-educated on it!

I've been using RSS for a couple of years now; mainly use it to keep track of blogs (lots of blogs, lots and lots of blogs) and social sites like Digg. I use the Sage extension for Firefox as my reader and check it about once a day

Greenlizard0 · 7 May 2006 at 19:17

Ok i've just subscribed to bbc news and sport...but i'm really struggling to understand how it's useful?

DarkShadow · 7 May 2006 at 19:22

Just BBC News.

What reader are you using sic? I want one for my shows with the blue icon that has an orange T in it

Stellios · 7 May 2006 at 19:25

Are their any websites like guru3d that do RSS feeds? like for latest PC hardware?

Moredhel · 7 May 2006 at 19:41

I subscribe to Slashdot, BBC News and Works Support Queue.

georges · 7 May 2006 at 20:35

greenlizard0 said:
Ok i've just subscribed to bbc news and sport...but i'm really struggling to understand how it's useful?

Use firefox, add it as a live bookmark thing and when you connect it loads all headlines quickly and you just click the down arrow under BBC Sport etc to see the latest headlines at a glance, then click the ones you want to see.

Not a fan of proper readers, but I love the live ones in FF.

eg: DONT READ TEXT ON THE DROP DOWN IF YOU DONT WANT FOOTBALL SPOILERS!!!

chris_r · 7 May 2006 at 20:36

I have the BBC headlines

Came pre-installed in Firefox

Sic · 7 May 2006 at 20:39

dark_shadow said:
Just BBC News.

What reader are you using sic? I want one for my shows with the blue icon that has an orange T in it

i'm using netnewswire. it's $19.99 shareware...but i've got 30 days to buy it. probably will, it's only a tenner!!

tis really gooood.

LeoWyatt · 7 May 2006 at 20:55

i subscribe to loads, mostly news based ones and it is amazing for me to have breaking news brought to my desktop instead of having to go and look for it - i need to be on top of the news for my job and RSS has been a revelation to me. Also subscribe to a couple of blogs too, and shall be pinching some stuff from Sic's list

Garp · 7 May 2006 at 20:55

Sic said:
i'm using netnewswire. it's $19.99 shareware...but i've got 30 days to buy it. probably will, it's only a tenner!! tis really gooood.

Why not use Mozilla Thunderbird? Its free.. or just add RSS bookmarks to Firefox. Put them on your toolbar's BM collection and then they're there at the drop of a menubox right alongside your browsing.

cyKey · 7 May 2006 at 21:03

Safari also has built in support for RSS.

Beansprout · 7 May 2006 at 21:05

Technoarti feed for the tag in which you're interested

Al Vallario · 7 May 2006 at 21:10

Garp said:
Why not use Mozilla Thunderbird? Its free.. or just add RSS bookmarks to Firefox. Put them on your toolbar's BM collection and then they're there at the drop of a menubox right alongside your browsing.

Netnewswire is a lot better than the built-in Thunderbird/Firefox RSS aggregators.
If I were allowed to make sweeping statements I'd say it's the best RSS reader out there