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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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