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What is RSS
RSS feeds bring
automatically updated information straight to your desktop.
You can monitor news, blogs, job listings, personals, and
classifieds. More and more sites offer feeds, which you can
identify by a small button that says either RSS or XML.
However, if you click one of these links, you will most likely
get a page full of code in your browser. To properly read the
feed, you need an RSS reader. Here's how to get and use one.
Why Use RSS?
Imagine for a
second you could have the latest information from your
favourite web sites (like www.ptvworldnews.com.pk) delivered
to you in a really simple way without you having to visit the
web sites or sign up for newsletters. Thats what RSS enables
you to do!
Once you've set
up the RSS feed, the headlines or summaries from a web site
will update automatically for you. You get the latest
information from as many web sites as you subscribe to. Then
if something interests you, you click an individual headline
to go to the full information. RSS is not just about news: It
can be used to preview whats new in a store or preview changes
to a picture gallery or any information you wish to be kept up
to date on. Many web sites use RSS at the moment including all
the major news sites and almost all blogs. Setting it up is
realy simple.
How to use
To use RSS you
need to grab the RSS feed from a web site. You can do that
using a web browser, a bit of software for your computer
called an RSS aggregator or one of the Web based
aggregation services (www.my.yahoo.com, www.google.com
etc).
RSS
Reader
is a simple and good free tool if you are using Windows.
You can get RSS
News feed from Pakistan Television Corporation Ltd. by just
Adding following link to your RSS aggregator.
http://news.ptv.com.pk/rss/news.xml
RSS Aggregators
(Software to download and web based services)
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Linux:
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Straw
(Free / For GNOME)
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