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What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an easy way to keep
up to date with news of technology at Palomar College
and in the Academic Technology Resource Center. ATRC
provides continually updated headline feeds from its web
site and delivers them directly to your desktop news
reader.
How can I use RSS?
There are several ways to access RSS feeds. You can
install a news reader (or aggregator) that
displays RSS feeds from the Web sites you select. Like
an email program or a Web browser, the news reader
serves as a kind of information portal, and provides a
real-time interface to the feeds you select. Once the
RSS reader is subscribed to the ATRC news feed, it will
continually poll the
http://www.palomar.edu/atrc for the latest
news releases.
How
do I subscribe to the Palomar feed?
If you use one of
the following services, you can subscribe with 1
click.
If you use some other reader, copy the URL in the box below into
your preferred RSS reader. New content
will be delivered as it is published.
The URL in the box above is what is
linked by those orange buttons of
various kinds you have seen on web
pages:
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 ,
 ,
or
 .
What news reader should I
use?
You can download and install a free (or low cost)
news aggregator from the web, like
SharpReader,
FeedReader, RSS
Bandit, or
NetNewsWire for Macintosh computers.
If you prefer to use a web-based news
aggregator, we recommend
Newsgator. Newsgator also has a for-pay plugin
to Microsoft Outlook.
After installing the news
reader, (or creating an account on an online service)
you can add each feed manually from the Web site by
right-clicking on the orange "XML" button, copying the
URL, and pasting it into the subscription window in your
news aggregator. From then on the aggregator will
download the latest headlines for you. If you wish
to read the story, click the link beneath the headline.
For in-depth information, read
"Find
the right RSS reader for you" from Microsoft,
"RSS 101,"
or "Managing
Your Information Feeds."
How do I find previous
postings?
Use our
news index for previous postings.
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