Something New for You.

I’ve finally figured out how to make an RSS feed for the new freebies…

…and why should anybody care? Well, if you’ve ever been frustrated in getting a newsletter delivered to your in-box, you’re not alone. Over the past year, there have been more and more people complaining about the ‘behind the scenes’ e-mail filtering that many internet service providers are doing. Some say that AOL is the worst, others complain about MSN… I can’t weigh in on this issue, because I use the POP3 service that comes with the website hosting… but even with them, there are some e-mails that I KNOW are coming that I never see.

That’s where RSS can save the day. If you have a favorite site, and if you like their newsletter, chances are that they also have an option for RSS… it comes directly to your RSS reader and totally by-passes the e-mail servers and their filters.

Free RSS readers are easy to find, just google for ‘free rss reader’ and take your pick… (I use RSSReader if you’re interested), you can also get RSS feeds displayed directly on many ‘HomePage’ services like iGoogle or MyYahoo… it’s really easy to add feeds, and quite cool.

If you want to learn a little more about RSS feeds, I’ve made a short ‘tutorial‘ about it.

Just leave a comment if you want to add to this or if you have any questions.

Have A Great Day!

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