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What is an RSS feed Depending upon which browser you use, if you click on an RSS symbol you will most probably get a list of file names with links to click on in order to hear/view or watch them them. (Unfortunately, you may also get a whole load of fairly incomprehensible text if your browser has not been updated.) If you are lucky then you may get something like this :- 
You can click on any of the links and your computer will open the file (or invite you to download an application to do this). This may seem pretty normal for a web page, but RSS is designed for more than this. The joy of RSS is that rather than periodically going back to the page yourself to check if a new file has been added, you use some software that does this for you. You may have seen this already in Podcasts in (for e.g) Itunes. Whichever software you use however the result is always something like a list of files in the same way as you might see a list of emails. Infact you can see how this might be achieved for Outlook from looking at the top of the picture. Just leave Microsoft Office Outlook selected in the window and click on subscribe. Now when you go into Outlook, all the files will appear in a list rather as if they had been emails to you. ie 
To use Itunes you can subscribe to any RSS feed by either seaching for it (if it is a publically available Podcast) or adding it manually. To do this is very simple and you only need to do it once, (its the same for Macs although you may need to scratch around a bit more because this illustration is for a PC).
The people at SoftwareGarden.com have written a usefull summary of RSS feeds from which this is taken. (they are here Software Garden) |
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