Cell phones can sometimes subscribe to rss feeds. The apple hot news feed was offered to me by my Nokia N75 phone when I visited the apple web site a while ago, but not all feeds are compatible with cell phones. It's an old version of netscape the phone has on it for its new browser that gets these feeds.
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Fonzie wrote: > Hi Olivia! How are you doing? > > I hope your day is going well. > > An RSS Feed is a syndicated feed, or to put it plainly, a link that gets > monitored for incoming news/articles/podcasts, or whatever the feed is for. > Think of it like getting your newspaper delivered to you, only in a > electronic way, and not actually on paper. > > Anyhow, RSS feeds can be found usually all over the web. Just look for a > link that is labled as RSS, and that will get you started. > > As for an RSS Reader, it is basically a program that houses all the > information being gathered. It works as a subscription service. As long as > you provide the RSS URL, which you get from clicking on the RSS link on a > page, then you are good. Most of the time, pages have a way of automatically > presenting your RSS Reader with the information, therefore making it quicker > to subscribe. > > Safari already has an RSS reader built in by default. If you go to your > location bar with VO+ L, and then use VO Navigational keys to navigate to the > right, you will hear an item that says news. If you have it enabled or still > catching news, as it is set by default, a number will be heard after News is > spoken. You can use VO+Space to pull the menu down, and see what is > available. So for example, Safari defaults to subscribing to Google as an > RSS feed. If you click on the Google item, you will be taken to a page that > has all the collected google artiles stored, allowing you to read them at > your own pace without going to the actual webpage. > > RSS Readers are really good in this way, only because you can get all your > information at one place, and not have to hop all over the web for the info > you want. > > Mail has an RSS Reader, and other applications like Net News Wire, PlayPod, > and Vienna do a more specific handling of RSS feds, since that is what they > were made for. Mail works with RSS feeds as well, but programs like Vienna, > NetNewsWire, and PlayPod were designed for hte job. > > In either case, it is totally a user preference whether you want to get RSS > Feeds in your web client, mail client, or use a particular program to do it. > > I hope this helps you out. > > Best wishes. > > Fonzie > On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:46 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan wrote: > >> What is an RSS feed? What is an RSS reader? How do I find RSS feeds and >> use RSS readers? >> Sorry for this obvious question, but I would love some guidence. >> Thanks, Olivia >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
