Tad Roberts

If you would like to be notified when this Web site has new content, please subscribe to our news or RSS feed.

A RSS feed is a way for people to be informed that a Web site has new content without them having to visit the site.

To subscribe to our RSS feed you need an application called a newsreader, and it must support the RSS 1.0 format. Newsreaders, also called news aggregators, are available either as extensions on your browser, known as online newsreaders, or as desktop applications, which are installed on your hard drive.

If you want to use an online newsreader, you can probably access it through your browser. For Internet Explorer there are plug-ins such as Pluck; Opera has a newsreader that is part of its email service. In Mozilla Firefox click on Tools and then Extensions where you can find about 20 different free online newsreaders: One that is lightweight, has one-step subscription, and support for 20 locales or languages is Sage.

Some well-known desktop newsreaders that are free for download and support the RSS 1.0 format are RSSOwl, which runs on Windows, OS X, and Linux operating systems; Liferea for Linux; Shrook for OS X; and Feedreader for Windows 95 and up; many others are available.

Once you have a newsreader, follow its instructions to subscribe to a RSS feed. Generally, this is as easy as opening the web site, clicking on a discover or subscribe button in your newsreader, and then selecting the feed that you wish to subscribe to.