RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a fast-growing Internet format that allows news and other content providers to supply the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site and refreshing pages.  It's an easy way for you to be alerted when the latest Carty, Ant and Marco news appears on this site.

Many top news based sites provide RSS, including the BBC, eil.com, CNN (the real one), the New York Times, the Associated Press, The Guardian and many more.  It has also become increasingly popular with fan based news sites.

What are the advantages of using RSS?

By itself, an RSS feed is nothing more than text surrounded by computer code. But combined with an RSS news reader, RSS becomes a powerful tool allowing readers to easily keep abreast of the latest news and information from multiple web sites. (And it's free.)

How Do I Use RSS?

In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications. All allow you to display and subscribe to the RSS feeds you want.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.  (For this site the RSS feed's URL is http://www.cartrouble.nl/cnn-rss.xml)

Readers using Mozilla's Firefox web browser will sometimes see this icon in the address bar of their web browser. Users of other web browsers will need to search the site for "RSS" or look for the icon within the content of the web page.

Alternatively, clicking on the links will automatically include the selected feeds into your My Yahoo! account which will appear on your My Yahoo! front page.

How do I get a News Reader?

There are a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time.

Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to take this into account when you make your choice.  Feel free to search on Google or Yahoo! for them, but to save you some time, here's a few links to help you on your way.

Windows
Feed Reader (recommended)
Newz Crawler
Awasu

Mac OS X
Newsfire
NetNewsWire

Web
Bloglines
My Yahoo! (recommended)
NewsGator
Pluck

Once you're set up, as soon as there's an update on this site's news page, you will immediately be alerted on your PC.