A Satisfyingly Tech-Savvy Moment

Out-teching your Facebook Twit-o-phile friends

Have you heard of RSS? Yes, it’s one of those internet acronyms, but thankfully it’s a really simple one. It stands for Really Simple Syndication. I like the sound of that - don’t you?

RSS is the way that you can be notified of new articles or content on your favourite websites, without clogging up your email inbox, and without having to check those sites every day. The best part is, you’re already equipped. You don’t need special software to do it. To subscribe to a website using RSS look for the RSS icon (ours is at the top left, next to the Twitter and Facebook icons). When you click it, it will show you a strangely formatted page … you can ignore it and just read the top part. Click the “subscribe” link (it may appear as a button).

If, like many, you use Microsoft Outlook for your email, you will find it convenient that notifications appear unobtrusively there. You may also have a Google home page, so you’d get notifications there too. You can choose which RSS ‘feeds’ go where, even to your iPhone. The possibilities are endless.

There may be hordes of FaceBookers and Twit-o-files, but if you want to really impress someone with your tech-savvy, tell them you use RSS.

Now you’re in the know.

Try it now, and never miss another Tempo Toronto article.

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