What is RSS?

RSS is a useful tool that allows you to keep up-to-date on new developments on web sites. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and allows you to subscribe to content feeds that are delivered directly to your RSS aggregator or to your web browser. As a result you don’t have to visit each section of our site to see what’s new. Instead, you will be notified as new content becomes available.

For more information on RSS visit the wikipedia entry on RSS.

What is a Podcast?

A podcast is an audio broadcast streamed across the internet that users can download onto their computers and portable audio devices.  Subscribing to a specific podcast "feed" enables a user to automatically update their computer with the latest edition of a particular audio broadcast.

For more information on Podcasts visit the wikipedia entry on Podcasts.

RSS Readers

Most RSS/podcast readers are totally free, you can use them to subscribe to RSS feeds or podcasts. Readers are divided into three main groups: browsers, web-based readers that you can access from any computer on the web and desktop readers that live on your computer.  Here’s a good list of some popular RSS/podcast readers available to you.

To view one of the TELUS feeds in your RSS Reader:
1. Copy the URL/shortcut that corresponds to the topic that interests you.
2. Paste the URL into your reader.

Browser
Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)
Firefox (via "Live Bookmarks" feature)
Safari (feed support in the Apple OS X native browser)

Online Services – web based readers
Google RSS Reader
My Yahoo!
Bloglines

Desktop readers
Feedreader
Feeddaemon

Podcast readers
iTunes
Juice
Doppler

TELUS does not recommend or endorse any of these products or companies.  We are providing this information to help get you started with RSS.

Disclaimer: Any references to non-TELUS Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those web sites. Your use of any non-TELUS Web site is at your own risk.