The best way to get updates about a website or a web service is using the email feature. If the website offers email updates, you will be able to get all the updates right inside your email. The next popular method is to subscribe to its RSS feed. Now, what if the website that you want to track does not offer an email newsletter or RSS feeds? In this case, you will need to visit the websites again and again in order to see if the site has been updated or not. Surely there is a better way than this.
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How To Stay Up-To-Date About Your Favorite Websites
By | February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
How to Restore the RSS Feed Icon In Firefox [Quick Tips]
By | January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment
If you are a Firefox user and also an avid RSS feed reader, one thing you will notice missing from recent update of Firefox is the RSS Feed icon that uses to reside at the right hand corner of the URL bar. According to the Mozilla developer, the removal of the icon is because it is seldom utilized and it serves little or no purpose. Whatever the reason, the feed icon is no longer available in the URL bar now. Luckily you can still get it back through a less elegant way.
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6 Tips To Make Google Reader Easier To Use
By | September 4, 2011 | 3 Comments
RSS readers are immensely useful tools for more than just keeping up with your favorite sites. In the past we have talked about different tools to use your Google reader. Some were about bettering your reading experience with Google Reader.
I know I use Google Reader to catch up on my favorite sites. The hard part is making your experience easier. Usually easier means you will use it more. Here are a few ways to make Google Reader easier to use.
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FeedSquares Lets You Read Your RSS Feed In A Visually Pleasing Way
By | August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you are a Google Reader user, you will know that its interface is dull, and kind of…boring. FeedSquares aims to supercharge your Google Reader experience by providing a visually pleasing interface for you to read your RSS feeds.
FeedSquares is a Google Chrome extension that shows your Google Reader feeds in a beautiful feed wall. Each square on the wall represents a single feed and the first image from each feed is used as the background for each square. The result is a visually stunning photo wall.
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Feedingo: An Online RSS Feed Reader With Reader-Friendly Interface
By | May 3, 2011 | 3 Comments
With so many interesting websites out there, you must have bookmarked a few that you check daily for new posts and interesting articles. Checking each of these websites individually can be a bit cumbersome because not only are you shifting from one browser tab to another, but also getting a new reading interface with each new site.
This problem is effectively solved by RSS feeds. The RSS feed of a website lists its latest articles and let you quickly read them. Tools that let you read multiple RSS feeds save that is otherwise spent on jumping from one site to another.
If you are looking for a competent RSS reading online tool, then one of the best available options is Feedingo.
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Android App Review: Google Reader
By | December 17, 2010 |
I have been an avid user of Google’s RSS reader for quite some time. Since I bought my smartphone, I was able to view my RSS feeds on the phone’s browser through Google Reader. Owning an Android phone means that I have become accustomed to using Google branded applications for most of the things I do on the phone. For example, I use Gmail for email, Maps for directions and GPS, Calendar for my schedule, YouTube for videos, etc. However, considering that I spend a lot of time on Google Reader, I was disappointed that Google had neglected to make a dedicated application for this service. It was easily accessible from a mobile website, however the website could be a little cumbersome to use. Even the third-party applications to view Google Reader were quite poor.
So, I was pleasantly surprised when Google finally launched a dedicated Google Reader application for the Android platform. At this point the application is essentially a front-end for the mobile website, however it is fast, light and simple to use.
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Do You Prefer Full Or Partial RSS Feed? [Poll]
By | November 29, 2010 |
The poll last week was “What is your favorite smartPhone?” and the results were out. Android leads the pack with 82 votes (57.34%) while iPhone is at a distant second with 24 votes (16.78%). I would expect iPhone users to be close, or even more than Android users, but obviously, the poll proved me wrong. A mix of Nokia and Samsung phones took up the third place with 17 votes (11.89%) and only a total of 3 votes for the newly launched WIndows Phone 7. A total of 126 votes were casted.
Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.
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Dlvr.it Publishes Your Feed to Various Social Networks Instantly
By | September 6, 2010 |
Long past the times where you just publish your blog content and people will come. Nowadays, to ensure that your readers can receive your latest update, not only do you need to have a RSS feed for your site, you also need to aggregate it to various social networks.
Dlvr.it is a web-based service that aggregates your RSS feed(s) to various social networks. Instead of using various services to update different social sites, you can now combine them all to one place.
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How to Download Torrents Using RSS Feeds
By | June 25, 2010 |
Bittorrent is a useful tool for downloading large files over the internet. In recent times it has been at the forefront of legal wrangling between major film production and music recording corporations and end-users who use the protocol for illicit purpose. Leaving aside the legal niceties, bittorrent is a robust tool with many uses.
uTorrent is a client that has become the de facto torrent client for Windows. Amongst its many features is a RSS Download tool. This tool allows you to automatically start torrent downloads as they are made available over the RSS feed.
There are many guides on the internet that explain exactly what bittorent is and the best ways to utilise this protocol. So, in this guide I assume that the user is aware of the basic functions of downloading a torrent file.
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Cadmus Organizes Your Twitter Streams, Prevents You From Information Overload
By | February 28, 2010 |
If you are a regular Tweeter and are following hundreds/thousands of people, chances are, your Twitter account is packed with plenty of tweets and you find yourselves having a hard time following each one of them. A good thing is, you are not alone in this. Most of us are suffering from this “information overloaded” syndrome, where we are receiving too much information more than we can absorb. So here lies the question: how can we filter our incoming tweets and get it to display only the useful information and prevent all the noise from appearing? Cadmus is a good solution.
Cadmus is a web app that manages your social media stream (Twitter, FriendFeed and RSS) by displaying the most relevant content and hide the noise from the rest. It enables you to see at a glance what is happening out there without having to read through each and every tweet.
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