RSS Help
Introduction
RSS news feed are a simple way to spread news information over the internet. RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, and that's exactly what it is.
At TTS we use RSS to publish vessels positions and other information that may be of interest to people.
RSS allows people to subscribe to a source of information that will be updated from time to time. It allows people to get updates every time they are on the internet without having to visit a web site, allowing people to read the news at their leasure.
Getting Started
First of all we need to know what operating system you are using.
If you already have Mozilla Firefox regardless of operating system it makes use of RSS as "live bookmarks". For more info on Mozilla Firefox take a look at our Firefox help page.
Apple Macintosh Mac OS X
If you are lucky enough to be running on an Apple Macintosh with Mac OS 10.4 Tiger everything is built in to the Safari web browser. All you need to do is go to our RSS Feeder Index and select a news feed to read it.
If you're on an older system than Mac OS 10.4 Tiger you will need an aggregator (news reader).
News readers for Mac OS X: -
Once you have a news reader you can take a look at our RSS Feeder Index to find information on what we publish and links to subscibe to.
Linux
On Linux you will need to get an aggregator (news reader) first.
News readers for Linux: -
Once you have a news reader you can take a look at our RSS Feeder Index to find information on what we publish and links to subscibe to.
Microsoft Windows
On Windows you will need to get an aggregator (news reader) first.
News readers for Windows: -
Once you have a news reader you can take a look at our RSS Feeder Index to find information on what we publish and links to subscibe to.
Further Reading
To learn more technical details regarding RSS you can review the information at the RSS 2.0 Specification site.
