Keep yourself up-to-date

Internet users must have seen orange boxes with white curves on it on the home pages of websites. It is a shortcut to register oneself for receiving RSS feeds of that website. What is RSS? Users not aware of technical jargon may misunderstand it.

It stands for Really Simple Syndication (RSS). It is an easy way to keep up with the websites’ updates without visiting them time and again.

The conventional way of checking updates is to bookmark sites and visit them often. This becomes difficult when you are tracking many websites. Many a time you end up seeing the same information. The easy way is to subscribe to the RSS feeds of the website of your choice and receive updates on RSS readers every time the website is updated. It saves you time and provides information quickly.

The function of the RSS is similar to subscribing to a magazine that is delivered when it is published. The same way, you receive updates when there are any in the websites you are following.

RSS Feeds reader is an application that helps online users to read updates from many sources at a central location. Almost all browsers come with in-built RSS readers and if your browser does not have one, you can download it for free from several websites. There are a few readers which are available on payment.

The use of RSS readers is simple. You can click on the orange button of a website of your choice and can add to your favourite feeds. The updates from the website will be a click away. For example, you are following the Yuva Sambad blog and a few other websites you can subscribe to the updates through Google reader. 

You click on Google Reader and will be provided with updates of all the sites. These readers are also called news aggregators because they bring news feeds from many websites to your computer. News Crawler, Feed Demon, News Gator, Omea Reader, Sharp Reader, etc., are only a few of popular readers for Windows users.