What is RSS?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and reviews in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.

It makes it easy to stay up to date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in.

RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. That's why, if you clicked on the orange 'RSS' button before clicking this link, it probably looked a lot like gobbledy gook.

We have an RSS feed for our news and reviews.

How do I start using RSS feeds?

The first thing you need is something called a news reader. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. 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.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. For example, if you would like the latest Total Film news and reviews, simply go back to our home page and you will notice an orange RSS button below the News Section.

If you click on this button you can subscribe to the feed  by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the URL into a new feed in your news reader.

Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for RSS feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to RSS feeds much easier. For more details on these, please check their websites.

News Readers

Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer.

Web
Bloglines
My Yahoo!
NewsGator

Browser
Mozilla Firefox

Windows
Newz Crawler
FeedDemon
Awasu
FeedReader

Mac OS X
Newsfire
NetNewsWire

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