First, what is RSS? RSS is abbreviated from Really Simple Syndication. What does RSS do? It usually provides list of articles and updates in simplified format, whether it is a full article or only summary. So why should we utilize the RSS feed? Well, you can view article updates on certain websites without needing to open the web itself. Thus you can save time reading the article update and you can select the article you wish to read thoroughly. Moreover, the RSS feed usually does not use fancy web designs, which of course requires less bandwidth to open and is generally very fast.
If you try to open the RSS link from Internet Explorer, it will only show article data in XML format. We have to use RSS feeder or RSS aggregator program to actually view those data in more presentable way. There are lots of free RSS reader around the web, and I use one that I think pretty easy to use, Snarfer. This program supports tabbed browsing, like when you’re reading a news or article and you want to open links or anything on different tab (same with IE 7, Firefox and others), nice looking interface. More over, Snarfer is a freeware. For more information on Snarfer, head to http://www.snarfware.com
This is a screenshot of my Snarfware in action.
