RSS feeds allow people to easily keep track of updates to their favorite websites. Say that you have 50 websites that you check every day for updates. What if instead of going to each of those individual websites, you can simply load your RSS reader and see which websites have been updated at a glance.

To use RSS feeds you will need an RSS reader. Here are two pages that list many different readers: http://blogspace.com/rss/readers and http://allrss.com/rssreaders.html. My favorite reader is Bloglines which is a web based reader that allows me to view my RSS feeds at any computer with a web connection.

Once you have your reader set up, you can start adding feeds. To add the feed for MaplePrimes, find “add feed