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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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