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Mobile Phone Directory FAQ
FA Questions
- What is RSS?
- How can I use RSS?
- How do I get a news reader?
- How do I find feeds to add to my newsreader or to my site?
- Can I use these feeds on my site?
FAQ Answers
Top- 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 drag. Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news 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, without having to remember to visit each site every day. It takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in. There is some discussion as to what RSS stands for, but most people plump 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.
- How can I use RSS?
- In general, the first thing you need is something called 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, 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. For example, if you would like Latest Links, simply visit the Latest Links section and you will notice an RSS button. If you would like your search result, enter your keyword click Search button and after you got search result click on the RSS button. If you click on the button you can subscribe to the feed in various ways, including by dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.
- 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.
NEWS READERS
Windows: Newz Crawler, FeedDemon, Awasu
Mac OS X: Newsfire, NetNewsWire
Web: Bloglines, My Yahoo!, NewsGator
Browser: Mozilla Firefox
and many many more already developed and upcoming.
- How do I find feeds to add to my newsreader or to my site?
- At the top of the page you will see a button like this:
- this is our RSS XML Feed. If you are at the front page clicking this button will give you the most recent entries from all Mobile Phone Directory website. When you are on a Category page it will display the entries for that category and if you type a search, clicking this button will produce RSS Newsfeed for results of this search.
To see all of our Category and Keyword Feeds and to quickly and easily create your own - go to our RSS Feeds Map page!
Remember - we update our site every day and if today there are no results for a particular search - there will be some tomorrow. Subscribe to a search feed that interests you and you will get the news first!
- Can I use these feeds on my site?
- If you run your own website or have your Blog hosted by free providers allowing publishing RSS feeds (Yahoo, MSN and many others), you can use Mobile Phone Directory RSS feeds to display on your site. However, we do require that the proper format and attribution is used when Mobile Phone Directory content appears. The attribution text should read "Mobile Phone Directory".
Mobile Phone Directory is an extensive and well organized directory that provides users with access to a rich collection of resources. We care about our users so we promise that you will not see non-related websites or dead links placed in completely irrelevant categories.
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