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Don’t miss a beat: Our master RSS feed will inform you when fresh content appears on this site. Are you wondering What are RSS feeds? and Why should I care? Read up below, find out what you need to know and how to get started right away!

What is RSS? What are Feeds?

RSS, or Real Simple Syndication, is an amazingly efficient way to keep yourself up-to-date with numerous websites, blogs and news. Without RSS, you are forced to visit each website, look around, and try to figure out if anything new has been published. Oftentimes, nothing has changed and you just wasted your precious time. What if there were a way to only visit the sites that have new content? Enter RSS and Feed Readers.

RSS Feed Readers

Step 1: Get a Feed Reader

Feed Readers (sometimes also called News Readers) are software applications, much like your favorite browser such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, or Safari. Once you have downloaded and installed one of the many free ones, you can tell these Feed Readers what websites, news and blogs you’d like to monitor. This customization process is also called subscribing to a feed and is described in the next step.

RSS Feed Icons

Step 2: Subscribe to Feeds

When visiting your favorite websites, you will have noticed some of these orange icons shown on the left, maybe the words RSS or XML or maybe a link encouraging you to subscribe. Click on the icons or links - a new page will open that may have a lot of text. Disregard the text, and simply copy the URL of this page, then paste it into your Feed Reader. That’s it.

RSS Feed Readers

Step 3: Enjoy New Content

Once you’ve instructed your Feed Reader what content you are interested in keeping up-to-date with, the Feed Reader will keep tabs on your favorites. Each time you open your Feed Reader application, it will check all the sites that you have subscribed to. If there is a new story or a new post on any site, it will display the new content inside your Feed Reader. You can read it right there, or you can click on a link that will open the subscribed website and its new content in your web browser.

Getting Started Right Now

Are you ready to use RSS Feed Readers? All it takes five minutes. First, download a newsreader application like Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon (Windows) or Ranchero Software’s NetNewsWire (Mac). See Google for more about RSS newsreaders. Then, copy and paste the URL of the Skinny Chef feed - that’s feed://skinnychef.com/feed/ - into the application’s subscribe dialogue.

Some browsers (such as Firefox and Opera for all platforms and Safari for Mac OS X) natively read RSS feeds via built-in widgets of fair attractiveness and non-dubious utility. Not entirely by coincidence, the aforesaid browsers tend to get updated frequently and offer strong support for web standards.