Keeping up to date with the information you want from the web is becoming increasingly difficult as more and more websites are created each day. Navigating through them all can get arduous when you want the latest news and features delivered directly to you.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) lets you to see when your favourite websites have added new content. You can access the most up to the minute content including headlines, articles, audio files, photos and video in one dedicated place. So you get the variety of sites every day in order to get your news anymore.

RSS is the easy way to stay totally in the loop with all your favourite content from the web. RSS works via feeds and you have to subscribe to these feeds from your favourite websites. These feeds can be viewed via an RSS reader. Sony.co.uk is just one of many websites offering RSS and we have RSS feeds for all our features. RSS feeds are free of charge and Sony Site currently uses RSS 2.0.

How do I start?

First things first. In order to enjoy all the benefits of RSS, you will need a news reader which is just a piece of free software. Your news reader will check the RSS feeds and as soon as something new is published, it allows you to read the content you have subscribed to.

Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer. There are various types of news readers available. You can either access them via your browser or you can download them. If you choose to access your RSS feeds via your browser then you will be able to access all the latest content from any computer. If you choose to download an application to read your RSS feeds then you can also store this conten on your computer just as you would with your personal email account. Now you have chosen your news reader, you have to subscribe to the RSS feeds that you want to read.

If you want to be kept up to date with new product launches from Sony, you subscribe to the Sony product feed from www.sony.co.uk.
You can subscribe to the feed in various ways either by including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed directly into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the URL into a new feed in your news reader.

RSS really is as easy as that and it’s about to revolutionise the way you access content. It takes the hassle out of trawling through a variety of websites and means that you don’t have to seek out interesting content anymore. Instead, all the news and features you are interested in are delivered directly to you as soon as it is published.