What are RSS Feeds?
Essentially, RSS feeds – or News Feeds – are an easy way to read the latest news/articles/blogs from different websites in one convenient place, without the hassle of actually having to visit the various sites.
For example, if you regularly visit the BBC website to read the news and SKY to read the sports – subscribe to their RSS feeds instead and these sites will send you regular updates direct to your desktop, so no need to visit them individually.
How to use RSS Feeds
To use RSS feeds (RSS, by the way, stands for Really Simple Syndication) you will first need to either download an RSS Reader or use Firefox as your web browser, which has a built-in RSS Reader.
With downloadable news readers you can only access your news feeds on your main computer, but with a browser application, you can check out the latest news with the click of a button wherever you are – kind of like using Hotmail for your email provider rather than Outlook.
Popular RSS Readers include:
- Awasu
- Bloglines
- FeedDemon
- FeedZilla
- Google Reader
- Microsoft Live
- My Yahoo
- NetNews Wire
- Newz Crawler
- Newsfire
- NewsGator
Subscribing to RSS Feeds
Once you've installed your chosen News Reader, you'll need to tell it which websites to scour for new content. To do this, simply visit your favourite websites and look out for the orange RSS icon.
To subscribe to a website's RSS feed, you can either click the orange button to add the page to your News Reader, or cut and paste or mouse-drag the page URL of the feed into the News Reader which you can activate.
Once you've done this, your News Reader will then begin to automatically download the latest stories that go live on those websites. You can then read the latest articles on your News Reader without the hassle of having to visit the actual webpage.
StephenSutherland.com – RSS Feeds
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The main topics featured in this site are as follows:
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- How to tell if your financial advisor is working for or against you.
- How to read the stock market and know when to buy, hold or sell.
- The psychology of a successful investor.
- How to maximise your financial freedom by living a longer, healthier life.
- My Ultimate Wealth Building Model
If you want to stay clued up on what’s new on StephenSutherland.com just click the RSS link – it’s that easy.
And if you have any comments or queries please feel free to post them or email them to me via this site.
Equally if there is a topic relating to ISA Trend Investing that you would like me to write about on this blog please do let me know and I will do all I can to address the issue.
Your friend,
Stephen Sutherland
The UK’s Leading Authority in ISA Trend Investing and Author of Liquid Millionaire
