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What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. These "feeds" are free content feeds from Web sites, including weighdown.com, that generally contain article headlines, summaries and links back to more information on the website.
What is a Podcast?
A podcast is a free video or audio series � like a TV or radio show � that you download from iTunes and play on your computer, iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV. Visit the iTunes Store to listen to a podcast via their free iTunes media player. Once you click on our WDWB podcast link above, you can listen to the archived shows via iTunes, then, if you wish to subscribe, click a single subscribe button on the same page. By subscribing to our podcast, iTunes will automatically download any new audios for that podcast each time you return to iTunes.
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View a video tutorial on subscribing to the WDWB podcast: Click HERE
How Do I View RSS Feeds?
There are a number of ways to access RSS feeds. You can install a news reader that displays RSS feeds from the Web sites you select, enabling you to view hundreds of headlines at once. After installing the news reader, you can add each feed manually from our Web site by clicking on the "RSS" orange button next to the feed.
An alternative to downloading a dedicated news reader is to use a Web-based news reader. For example, My Yahoo!, iGoogle, MyMSN and Windows Live! users can now add RSS feeds directly to their personal page by clicking on the links to the right of each feed listed above. The newest versions of Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and AOL Explorer web browsers are all capable of reading and subscribing to RSS feeds as well. E-mail applications such as Microsoft Outlook and Entourage are also able to read and subscribe to RSS feeds.
Why Use RSS?
RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. Using RSS feeds is an easy way for you to be alerted when content that interests you appears on your favorite Web sites. Instead of visiting a particular Web site to browse for new articles and features, RSS automatically tells you when something new is posted online.
In general it means time savings because, thanks to RSS, you stay ahead of what's new without having to browse every site you normally visit. An RSS reader aggregates, or collects, the content for you to view in one place. This saves time and brings you the content like when you're reading a newspaper with the advantage to view only headlines. You can then pick which articles you want to read.
I Need More Help
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