What is RSS??

RSS - it's internet-technology, which allows to see materials of a site in a native form. The compilation of the data is carried out in a special format, in language XML.

How it works?

The broadcast data are stored in a special file, which is located on the web-server. The special programs allow to load this file from the web in an automatic mode, saving the traffic and time. You should not each time come on all these sites - you will see headings of news and to read only that you really will be interest.

For what it is necessary?

If you regularly work in the Internet and thus look through a plenty of sites for occurrence freshen the information (for example, news, exchange reports etc.), RSS is simply created for you.

How it to use?

1. For reading RSS uou should install on the computer the special program. Such programs exists much enough. For example, these free-for-use
   • Abilon,
   • RssReader,
   • FeedReader
   - or paid -
   • GetNews,
   • NewzCrawler
   and many others. Click to read the review of the programs.
2. After installation of the program it is necessary to you to specify to the program the address of a file of compilation, for example: http://woodex.com.ua/rss/rss_news.xml?lng=en. Often owners of sites specify the address of a file of compilations as the reference under such or images. If you have noticed on a site such badges, most likely you can receive of updating of a site with the help of the program.
3. In some programs you can specify frequency of refresh of a rss-line and many other parameters.
4. That's all! Now program will load the data in the rss format from the internet and will display them.

Source: lenta.pskov.ru