***UPDATE*** April 26, 2007- Ian at Brave New Traveler shares a great video on RSS that he found at CommonCraft. Watch the video to find out how you can subscribe to Rambling Traveler. It explains RSS even better than I did below.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. There are all kinds of sites that explain how it works, but I'll try to sum it up with my non-technical understanding. Basically, many of the websites you read that are updated frequently have RSS feeds. You can subscribe to these feeds, and get the updates on a feed reader that you choose.
I use Google Reader, but there are many others, including Yahoo and Bloglines. When a new article is posted on a site that you follow, it shows up on your reader. You can read the post right there, or you can follow the link to the actual site and read it there. It's great, because you don't have to go to each site individually to look for new content, the reader tells you when it's there.
Many sites have orange subscription buttons that you can press to subscribe to that feed. Your reader can tell you other ways you can subscribe to a site. For more information, Ezine Articles has a good explanation of RSS newsfeeds.
Hopefully this will help you understand what that orange button is on my sidebar. If you like Rambling Traveler, you can subscribe to the posts and comments. Whenever I post a new article, or someone leaves a comment, you'll know about it.
Sunday, March 4, 2007
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Hi I found out about Jigzone about 3 months ago. I also refound a hobby. I love doing JigSaw Puzzles and have many in the closet that i was going to do some day. I love Jigzone because its free and you can do the puzzles quickly. I work mostly in 80 piece classic. I just did yours and enjoyed it. I grew up in New England but I have lived in many places and the last several years I have lived in Hawaii. I save the puzzles that I do to my documents and I have over 100 so far. My wife I found out also loves JigSaw Puzzles she tends to do the same one over and over for time. I tend to almost always move on. I have about 50 pictures in the my puzzles account. Other puzzle sites have better images but Jigzone has the best over all features. Also it is a very active and updated site. Now I have Rambling Traveler on my Favorites List. I am a very heavy poster of opnion but i have stayed away from bloging because I also like to be read and I have not found a place I like yet. I post at thehawaiichannel.com and thebostonchannel.com under the username awesomeron. I am more so just doing my puzzles now and chilling out. I find them relaxing and somewhat escapeist. I also like to turn pictures of things and people into puzzles and E-Mail the pictures to them.
That worked I am so amazed when stuff really works.
Hi Ron, Thank you for the comments, I'm glad it worked for you! That's interesting how you and your wife do the puzzles differently. I like to take my time with puzzles, (like you, I find them relaxing) but I'm also a little competitive, so seeing the different time results gets me going a little faster.
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