If the reader has been tested on our site the details of the testing are included. All of the major free readers are listed below. If you don’t already have one the first step to getting there is to get an RSS reader. Each summary has or is a link to the full post. The end result is always a list of summaries of the new updates such as is shown at the left. Most readers provide means for sharing updates in social media and so on. If you only want to get updates on Bank of Montreal appointments if they involve your cousin Shecky then there’s even a filter for that. If you’re interested in the SkyTour podcasts over at then you can have those sent to your phone whilst their general astronomical news goes to your desktop. If you only want to see PhD job postings from the CASCA site then there’s a filter for that. There are also an enormous number of programs that either have RSS feed readers built into them, such as Thunderbird and Internet Explorer, or have a number of plugins that allow RSS feed reading, such as OS X’s notification centre and the Firefox browser.ĭepending on the sophistication of the feed and of the reader you can either just get all updates from the site or optionally apply extremely complex filters and rules to your feeds. If they don’t supply the RSS icon up front then you can find them with a google search of the form “ name of site RSS”. Many, if not most, big websites have an RSS feed or feeds lurking about somewhere. RSS is an open-source aggregator standard: so called because it allows you to aggregate the updates which you are interested in from all over the web into one place in one format.
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