RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
It is an alternative means of accessing the vast amount of information that now exists on the world wide web. Instead of the user browsing websites for information of interest, the information is sent directly to the user.

There are two halves to the RSS system that allows this to happen.

The first is that the user needs to have an 'RSS reader' (sometimes called a feedreader). This is a program which collects the raw XML news feeds (files created by websites that are RSS-compatible) and turns them into text and links that a user can browse at his or her leisure.

The beauty of this is that users can take feeds only from websites that are of interest to them, and that it allows you to scan the latest information from a range of sources without having to visit different websites.

The second half of the RSS system is that a website must have a feed specially set up to work with the news reader. Most big news websites now have such systems - and the links are highlighted with the orange 'RSS' boxes like this .

The user sets the URLs (addresses) for these feeds into the news reader, the website comes to the user, rather than the user coming to the site. Some news readers can also be set to notify you of any new content - almost like receiving an email. 

To be able to access the latest Sphere News with our RSS system, you can do one of the following things

1. If you don't have an RSS reader:
You can download our free RSS reader from this link and install it. We have added the Sphere Website link to it already so you don't need to do anything. This program will create a popup menu to alert you every time there is a new posting on the website.

2. If you have an RSS reader:
You can right click with the mouse on the RSS icon and do "Copy shortcut" and then paste the link in the RSS reader you have. This will create a feed that will read the Sphere latest News.