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1. Open Safari

2. Click on the Bookmark icon to open your bookmarks.

3. Select the '+' sign. When you do this, it created an 'untitled folder' Go ahead and rename it to something more description. In this example, I called it 'MyRSS Stuff'. READ MORE »

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RSS can save you tons of time gathering content without you having to go to each individual website. It's a way of 'aggregating' new content by subscribing to it. Your RSS reader goes out to your subscribed sites and alerts you of any new content. It's the most efficient way to check out your favorite sites - without having to go to them individually, only to be disappointed and find nothing new.

Safari has an RSS reader built-in, but you can also use 3rd party readers. More on that later.

Here is how to do it:
1. Open Safari
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Do you love receiving headlines from your favorite web sites? Well, now you can do it with a cool screen saver, built right into OS X Tiger.

It's called the RSS Visualizer, and if you have an always on net connection, it will pull down the latest headlines and show them as your screen saver.

Let's get to it:
Open System Preferences

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Flickr is the most popular photo sharing site on the net. With iPhoto 6, Apple introduced the ability to subscribe to Photo Casts. It's basically the same as a podcast, except you subscribe to pictures. Here is how to subscribe to Flickr photo sets and have the pictures download right into iPhoto 6.

Open 'Safari' and go to Flickr.com

Next, you can look for a particular photo set, or browse for something interesting. READ MORE »