What are News Feeds?
News feeds allow you to see when websites have added new content. You can get
the latest products in one place, as soon as its published, without having to
visit the websites you have taken the feed from.
Feeds are also known as RSS (Really Simple Syndication). In essence, the
feeds themselves are just web pages, designed to be read by computers rather
than people.
How do I start using feeds?
In general, the first thing you need is something called a news reader. This
is a piece of software that checks the feeds and lets you read any new articles
that have been added. There are many different versions, some of which are
accessed using a browser, and some of which are downloadable applications.
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Browser-based news readers let you catch up with your RSS feed subscriptions
from any computer, whereas downloadable applications let you store them on your
main computer, in the same way that you either download your e-mail using
Outlook, or keep it on a web-based service like Hotmail.
You can subscribe to our feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the feed into your news reader
or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news
reader.
Some browsers, including IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check
for feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find
one. This can make subscribing to feeds much easier. For more details on these,
please check their websites.
How do I get a news reader?
There is a range of different news readers available and new versions are
appearing all the time.
Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need
to choose one that will work with your computer from the list on the right marked News Feeders.
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NEWS READERS
Windows
8Newz Crawler
8FeedDemon
8Awasu
Mac OS X
8Newsfire
8NetNewsWire
Web
8Bloglines
8NewsGator
8Microsoft Live
8My Yahoo!
Browser
8Internet Explorer 7
8Mozilla Firefox
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Using our feeds on your web site.
If you run your own website, you can display the latest headlines from other
websites on your own site using RSS.
We encourage the use of our product feeds as part of a website, however, we do
require that the proper format and attribution is used when our product feed
appears. The attribution text should read "Command Surplus - New Items".
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