RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. It's like email in that you get all your messages in one place, but it's different from email in that you get only what you send for. Right now it's mostly for blogs (like this site) and podcasts (internet radio shows). You open your RSS newsreader and get all the latest articles and podcasts from your favorite sites that you chose without having to go to each site individually. Cool, huh?

There are several services avalable, and some are free, such as the recent release of Google's Feedster service, Internet Explorer 7, and a few others. FeedDemon newsreader software is at www.bradsoft.com, and I believe it runs $29. There are other alternatives out there too.

Just copy http://www.thehappypath.com/blog/index.xml   into the new channel wizard section and then download articles and podcasts. All the articles will appear.

For FeedDemon, Podcasts are found by clicking the paper clips.Click on a paper clip and something called "feed station" will open, asking you where you want the podcasts to land in your computer. Then it will download the podcast right away. To listen to the podcast, click tools, and "open feed station". Then double click on the podcast file.