HowStuffWorks' RSS feeds give you another way to access HowStuffWorks' great content on a daily basis! Here's how it works.

RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication". It started in the world of blogs (see How Blogs Work for details) to help people who read lots of blogs.

Popular RSS Readers

Don't have an RSS reader installed on your machine? Here are some of the popular ones:
  • SharpReader
  • NewsGator
  • NetNewsWire
  • Mozilla (built into the browser)
  • FeedDemon
  • RssBandit
  • Shrook
  • Feedreader
Check in Google for information on each of these programs and pick the one that feels best to you. If you are looking for one that is very simple and free, you might want to download FeedReader.
Blogs usually have a free "RSS feed". It is a little XML web page that contains the headline, date/time and a description of each new item that the blog is publishing. You install a piece of software called an "RSS reader" on your machine. You connect it to the RSS feeds for your favorite sites. Then, when you click the "update" button in your RSS reader, it goes out and checks their RSS feeds. RSS gives you a much quicker way to keep up-to-date on your favorite sites.

HowStuffWorks currently offers the "feature article" feed -- it contains the articles featured on the HowStuffWorks home page each day. It is completely free, with no strings attached. Several more RSS feeds are in the works and will appear on this page when they are ready.

Here's the HowStuffWorks feed:

Simply load the URL http://HowStuffWorks.com/feature-article-feed.xml into your RSS reader and you are ready to go!

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