RSS on this site
The Scilly-photos website RSS feed can provide you with recently added articles and photos straight to your computer without having to remember to visit the site each day !
If you have ‘Internet Explorer 7‘ or the ‘Firefox’ browser you can start receiving the RSS feed from this site straight away by adding it to your ‘live bookmarks’.

Alternatively a recent development is Google Reader which is supported on Scillyphotos.
Click this graphic to add Scillyphotos to your own Google Reader

So What is RSS?
In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a time consuming task.
Wouldn’t it be better to have the latest news, photos and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site?
RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published.

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines.
Not all websites currently provide RSS, but it is growing rapidly in popularity…. and this one does !

How do I start using the RSS feed ?
In general, the first thing you need is a ‘news reader’. This is a piece of software that checks RSS feeds and lets you read any new articles that have been added to them. There are many different versions, some of which are accessed using a browser, e.g. ‘Firefox’ and some of which are downloadable applications. 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.

Once you have chosen a news reader, all you have to do is to decide what content you want to receive in your news reader, by finding and subscribing to the relevant RSS feeds. You will notice an orange RSS button, on this page (right). Most sites that offer RSS feeds use a similar orange RSS button, but some may just have a normal web link to the feed.

Some browsers, including the latest Internet Explorer 7, Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for RSS feeds when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. This can make subscribing to RSS feeds much easier.

Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer.