About Product Alerts and Subscriptions

What is a Subscription?
Subscriptions are handled via RSS - an acronym for Really Simple Syndication and Rich Site Summary. An RSSsubscription allows you to receive updates (basically headlines) from your favorite websites in the RSS reader ofyour choice.

What is an RSS Reader?
An RSS reader is an application that collects and displays new headlines and summaries from sources that youhave designated.

How Do I Subscribe?
In order to subscribe (via an RSS feed) you will need two things, an RSS reader (the application that collects anddisplays news headlines and summaries) and the URL (web address) of the RSS feed you wish to read.

1. Download and install an RSS reader/news aggregator.
2. Locate the URL of the RSS feed that you wish to read.
3. Insert the URL of the news feed into the RSS reader (there is usually an "add feed" button).
4. The information in the feed will be updated when the feed contains new content.

What RSS Reader Should I Use?
There are a number of RSS readers available directly through web browsers (e.g. Firefox, Safari), through web sites(e.g. FeedBurner, FeedReader, RSSReader, etc.), or as standalone applications (e.g. BlogExpress, Syndirella, Pheeder,NetNewsWire, etc.).