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Business Games now offers RSS feeds to make update easier for you. Subscribe to RSS for no privacy worry but hassle free updates. What is RSS?In a world heaving under the virtual weight of billions of web pages, keeping up with websites can be a chore. RSS feeds let you keep up to date with the latest info on all your favourite sites without having to take the trouble to visit them. In effect, bits of their sites come to you instead. You already know the web pages you like to visit – you probably have them in your browser's "Favourites". However, it is not easy to tell when they've been updated without visiting each one and checking. Computers, though, can tell when sites have been updated, using a feed. An RSS feed is usually made up of a number of titles and short summaries of full content on the website that produced the feed. In other words, you can quickly look at the summaries and, at a glance, tell if you want to click through and visit the full version on the website. Plus, your computer will let you know when a new feed is available. And that's what an RSS feed is – a summary of the latest content on a website so that you can see whether there is anything new or interesting available. How do I start using these feeds?In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks the feeds. 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 it to receive. For example, if you would like to get a weekly overview of the music that's on during the weekend, you could visit the Music section of the site and select 'this weekend' from the time selection list. Once you have the listing you want to get a feed for, you can use the orange RSS button to subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader. Most sites that offer feeds use a similar orange button, but some may just have a normal web link. Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites. How do I get a news reader?There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer. News reading browsersNews readers for WindowsNews readers for Mac OS XWeb-based news readersGames organised by Fordward Thinking |
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