Did you know that you can subscribe to the Spitfire Site updates? Better still, the RSS feed providing the information on the updates has just been significantly improved, using Feedburner as a delivery platform and providing a summary of each article.

In upper right corner of this page you may see the RSS icon such as this.

Clicking it will direct you to the RSS feed of this site. Alternatively, you can use the following link:

No idea what this is all about? Read on.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. Both mean the same thing, so don’t let it confuse you. An RSS is something many websites offer to readers to provide a “news feed” of their information. Seen from a reader perspective, an RSS feed allows you to receive a notification every time when this site has been updated.

To start using our feed you require a program on your computer which supports RSS, but don’t worry, most modern web browsers an email software have built-in RSS functionality so it’s there ready to be used. You can even subscribe to RSS from your mobile phone or personalized start pages such as iGoogle or MyYahoo.

The principle of RSS operation is simple. It’s like telling your program “here is an RSS feed I’d like to subscribe to”. The program will bookmark its address and then automatically make a periodic check – daily, hourly or at some other preset interval – to to see if any new articles have been added. If so, the program will notify you.

Trying it should be easy. Click on the following link.
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/spitfiresite/blog

Your browser should display the latest news on this site. If it asks you to “subscribe to this feed“, confirm and you’re all set. Next time the site is updated the browser will notify you about the change.

Easy enough? Enjoy.