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You can create an account on OneDrive and store your work there. OneDrive helps you to share files
or folders stored in it by a link sent through an email to the person you want to share them with.
Tech Hint
To access your OneDrive account with the help of web browser, if you are using an older
version of Windows: login with your Microsoft's (www.msn.com) account and click on the
OneDrive link on the home page.
RSS (REALLY SIMPLE SYNDICATION)
All of us search the Internet for so many things every day. We visit some sites regularly. RSS tracks
this information and regularly sends you updates whenever the sites are updated. RSS is used to
organise your favourite blogs, movies, news, images, etc. in one window. Before RSS, the user had
to visit each website and check for updates. This led to spending a lot of time if no new updates
found. With RSS (RSS feeds) you save time. It fetches the updated web feed or newly published
information from the website/blog directly to you. So, you do not have to search for updated
information again and again.
RSS is a collection of web feeds which could be headlines,
music video, blog entries, etc. to enable RSS, you must first Tech Fact
subscribe to content from multiple sources, like YouTube XML stands for Extensible
and Blogs. RSS feed handles these notifications easily in an Markup Language. It is like
organized manner. Web builders use feeds to segregate HTML and is used to store
fresh content from their websites and web surfers. RSS may and share information on the
also be referred to as RSS feed, RSS channel, RDF feed, XML Internet.
feed, Atom feed.
Starting RSS Feed
RSS feed is represented by a small orange symbol. If it is on a website, click on it and
subscribe to the relevant feed. This icon can be located at the extreme upper right-hand
side of the website or at the bottom of the website with other icons. You can also type
“/rss” in the address bar after the website name. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of your RSS Feed
choice to read.
PODCASTING
The process of making digital recordings (audio or video) that are available for downloading is called
podcasting. It is a free service that allows users to download media files using Internet. These media
files that can be downloaded from the Internet are called podcasts.
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