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ITechDude.com presently offers the following two ways to its users to keep track of latest articles and updates on this site.

• Subscribe By RSS (Requires a feed reader account. Don’t know what it is? Read below.)
• Subscribe By Email (Requires a valid email account)

What is RSS? That’s probably the question I hear the most from my friends who are either newbie or use internet very less. So if you are also unknown of what is RSS then you have come to the right page.

Do you want to be updated about every post on ITechDude.com? What do you do to stay updated with all he websites you like?

What Is RSS? Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a technology used by several millions of internet users to keep track of what is happening live on their favourite websites. Probably you are thinking what’s the need of subscribing to RSS when you can track websites’ updates by using Bookmarks feature in your browser, aren’t you?

The Problem With Bookmarking

• You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks.
• If the site is not updated you see the information again and again on the sites that don’t update very often.
• You don’t know when a site has been updated.

Here’s Where RSS Comes In Action
RSS enables you to tell websites to send the information to your browser whenever it gets updated. So if you are subscribed to a site’s RSS, let’s say ITechDude’s, then whenever an article is written on this site it will automatically be sent to your browser. This way you’ll get to know when and what articles have been added on the site.

How To Use RSS? RSS feeds can be read by using a feed reader. You can find many feed readers on the web like Google Reader and Bloglines. Some other feed readers are MyGoogle, MyMSN and MyYahoo. Every new article of the subscribed site comes to your feed reader. So whenever you login to your feed reader you will get to know what is happening on your favorite site. However, many web-browsers also have inbuilt feed reader. An example is Firefox. So next time whenever you see any of the feed icons (called chicklets) like the ones shown here on your favorite site, subscribe to it using your feed reader.

Now that you know what RSS is you can subscribe to ITechDude’s RSS so that you get informed by your browser whenever there is an update on this site. Another option to subscribe to this site is by Email. So if you subscribe by Email the updates are sent to your inbox. In this option you don’t need any feed reader but a valid email-id that you open very often.