Safari RSS: News, information, and articles delivered right to you.
Like all businesspeople, photographers thrive on information. Photojournalists keep an eye on news wires from around the world. Studio photographers scour the fashion trades and style magazines. Everyone keeps tabs on new camera gear and technology. And most use the web to mine for information regarding their ongoing projects, passions, and specialties.
But mining the web takes valuable time. Which is why Safari RSS, the Mac OS X Tiger browser, empowers you to stop searching and start receiving.
Push Versus Pull
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s a remarkably simple way to deliver customized information direct to your desktop. Today, more and more major news organisations, online magazines, photo industry websites, and even photographers’ personal blogs offer headlines and article summaries in the form of RSS news feeds. Safari RSS lets you combine your chosen news feeds and view them together in a simple, ad-free list — free from the clutter of most web pages — so you can quickly find all the articles that interest you from across the web.
When Safari encounters an RSS feed you’ve chosen, it displays every headline and article summary right in the browser window. To read the complete article, click on the blurb to retrieve the web page.
Safari has a slider for customising the displayed length of each article summary and controls for sorting and filtering displayed articles by Date, Title and Source.
Your Personal Clipping Service
Unlike a search engine, which rambles through millions of sites on the web, RSS zeroes in on only the articles that interest you. Enter a topic keyword into the RSS search field and Safari searches across the currently displayed RSS feeds for matching headlines, then displays the results on a single page. Simply bookmark your search to create a Personal Clipping Service and Safari RSS aggregates new articles that meet your criteria and lets you know when they arrive.
You can even set your Mac’s screensaver to display your constantly updated RSS feeds. When an intriguing headline catches your eye, just click on it to read the complete article. You never know. You might just get a big scoop, a hot tip, a job lead or a jump on your competition.
