Frequently Asked Questions
Bike Animal RSS news feeds
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What is Social Bookmarking?
Why do some of the pictures on the site sometimes look like they are squashed, or missing?
What is RSS?In a world heaving under the weight of billions of web pages, keeping up to date with the information you want can be a drag. Wouldn't it be better to have the latest news and features delivered directly to you, rather than clicking from site to site? Using RSS allows you to see when sites from all over the internet have added new content. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day. RSS takes the hassle out of staying up-to-date, by showing you the very latest information that you are interested in. RSS feeds are just a special kind of web page, designed to be read by computers rather than people. It might help to think of them as the free, internet version of the old-fashioned ticker-tape news wire machines. There are a range of different news readers available and new versions are appearing all the time. Different news readers work on different operating systems, so you will need to choose one that will work with your computer. Windows
Newz Crawler
FeedDemon
Awasu Mac OS X
Newsfire
NetNewsWire Web
Bloglines
My Yahoo!
NewsGator
Google Reader
Google Personalized Homepage Back to top Please see the forum for FAQs relating to use of the Bikeanimal.com forum. Back to top If you are having problems registering with Bikeanimal.com please contact us with the details of the error message you are receiving and which page you were trying to register from. Back to top Social bookmarking is a way to store, organize, share and search bookmarks of web pages, without relying on a specific browser or computer. These bookmarks save links to web pages the user wants to remember, or share, in a number of places e.g. Facebook, Digg, My Yahoo! Some of these services save the links privately, or share them with specific people, inside certain networks or publicly. These bookmarks can then be viewed chronologically, via a search engine or by category or tags.
Social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with tags instead of using the traditional system of folders. Some services do, however, feature categories or folders. Others use a combination of folders and tags. Bookmarks associated with a chosen tag are displayed and information about the number of uses who have bookmarked these pages is included.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their bookmark lists, including list organized by tags. Subscribers to these feeds then become aware of new bookmarks in their chosen tag lists as they are saved, shared and tagged by others. Some social bookmarking services have added extra features, such as ratings and comments, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, and the ability to email bookmarks. Back to top Sometimes when we are changing the layout of the pages on the site you might find that some of the images look squashed, or are missing. Most browsers cache web pages to make return visits to the page faster, but this means that sometimes the wrong images are displayed by your browser. If you have this problem press the refresh button on your browser. If you still have problems viewing the page you may need to force your browser to view the page from our server again. To do this on a PC press CTRL+F5. On a Mac using Safari press ALT+Apple+R. On a Mac using Firefox press Shift+Apple+R. Back to top
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