What is RSS?
RSS feeds are used for website syndication, most commonly seen with blogs, but they are now being seen used more often, for anything from news to photos to forums, et cetera. They are both XML documents that can be used with applications commonly known as “feed readers”. These come as both applications on your operating systems or as websites.
You can read more about RSS feeds at this article, entitled Why Aren’t You Using RSS?

Which feed reader should I use?
This is up to your own personal preference — however — below I have supplied a quick list of freeware feed readers available to several different operating systems:

• NewsFire (Mac) is a shareware Mac application that reads and displays Atom and RSS feeds.
• NetNewsWire Lite (Mac) is a freeware edition of the commercial NetNewsWire program. Its so-called “Lite” feature set practically defines the newsreader industry standard.
• Akregator (*nix) is a KDE RSS/Atom feed reader and aggregator.
• Bloglines is a free web-based feed reader that will run on any operating system that has a browser with JavaScript and cookies enabled. Bloglines comes with lots of features including publishing the list of websites you are subscribed too. Bloglines is my recommendation.
• Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird are two freeware, multi-platform applications that both come with built in feed readers.
• Yutter is something pretty new to the feed world, however, it offers an excellent method for subscribing and reading entries via email. If you’re too lazy to visit the site everyday, just subscribe with yutter!
• Safari (of course)

RSS Feeds
For those of you familiar with RSS and News Aggregators you can follow Mac Amour via our RSS feed. Simply add it to your news aggregator and you’ll get notification every time something is published on Mac Amour. Or just click on this huge button:

Email Subscription
If you’re not an RSS user you can get one daily email that gives you any post that has been written on Mac Amour that day. You can unsubsribe from this this service at any point. This service is provided by a third party (Feedburner) and you can subscribe to it by leaving your email address in the following field and following the instructions.

Please note: your privacy is assured with any of the above options. I do not use your details for any other purposes than what you sign up for and details are kept private.

Don’t forget to add Mac Amour to your Technorati favorites if you have an account, it’s also a good way to keep track of new posts but also a way to encourage us to continue doing our work

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