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A step by step guide to getting the news you want delivered to your computer
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and don’t worry it really is simple!
Basically RSS, or news feeds, allow you to be in control of when you find out the news.
If you want to know the instant a news website uploads a story you can.
Or if you’d like to check once a day, you can do that as well.
There are many options, from having a little headline scrolling across the bottom of your computer screen, or a box popping up in the corner, to a nice table where it all appears every time you open it.
But the best way to work out what will work for you is to try.
How do I start?
To use the RSS feeds you need a ‘reader’.
A reader is the program that displays the headlines on your computer as soon as they appear on a website.
There are two types of reader.
The first kind is a program that is free to download from the internet.
It will appear on your desktop as an icon and when you open it, it will automatically connect to the internet.
This kind is the best if you would like pop ups in the corner of the screen as you are working, or the headlines to scroll along the bottom of the screen so you notice it straight away.
Examples of these are (click on the links to download them now)
Windows
Mac OS X
- NetNewsWire
The other kind is a web-based reader.
This means you can only check it when you open an internet browser window.
So how often you are updated depends entirely on how often you open an internet browser to check it – a bit like checking your hotmail.
Web
There are loads more, just search news readers.
Ok, I have my news reader, what’s next?
Now you can get live updates from our websites.
All you have to do is click on the  button on each section of the website you want updates from.
Most readers will automatically pick up the feed and start displaying it.
If you have difficulties there is usually an option on readers to submit the web address and it will find the RSS feed itself that way.
Here are the links for our websites. Click on the link or paste the address in to your reader.
The Weston & Somerset Mercury:
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonNews
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=WestonSomersetNews
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonNSomersetNews
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonFootball
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonrugby
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonBasketball
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonsportmisc
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonkarate
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonTennis
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonCinema
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonComedy
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonTheatre
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonMusic
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonComps
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/rss/feed.aspx?id=westonPostbag
http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/cs/photos/readers_photos/categories_rss.aspx
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