PingIt is a web service completely free to use. The function of the application is to help you get customized RSS feeds that can be filtered using a variety of criteria that includes keywords as well as the popularity of the feed entries. But before you move onto the customized feeds features, you can use [...]
Here at MakeUseOf, we’re just as much as avid tech readers as we are writers, so sometimes, it’s nice to have all of our favorite technology blogs in one place. With the death of Google Reader, it’s been a little difficult finding the perfect RSS reader among the pool of ones that are out there, [...]
Protopage is a free to use web service that helps its users do the most with the least number of open interfaces. Basically the site recognizes the fact that Internet users find it inconvenient to open up multiple webpages to get the information they want every day. You open up your favorite bookmarks in new [...]
Turn your Facebook page, Twitter timeline or any RSS feed into an attractive widget you can embed on your website. Sure, you could use the free embeddable “widgets” offered by Facebook and Twitter – but they aren’t terribly customizable, and are seen by many as ugly. FeederNinja offers you a clean way to add content [...]
If you feel swarmed by all the stuff from your social network feeds, check out Undrip. It is an iOS app that pulls content from all your different social feeds (Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Pinterest, etc) and shows you only the most relevant and cool content, tuning out the noise like status updates, check-ins or Farmville [...]
RSS feeds let you stay in touch with the latest updates on your favorite websites. But not all RSS readers let you conveniently do this. Often readers clutter RSS feeds and make it difficult for you to find what you are looking for. An exception to this is a web service called Q-Sensei FeedBooster. Q-Sensei [...]
Saving multiple RSS links in your feed reader can be a bit inconvenient. Here to offer a solution by providing you a single RSS link for all your feeds is a web service called Chimp Feedr. Chimp Feedr is a web service that mashes your RSS feeds together. The site does not ask you to [...]
We all had good impressions about the Metro UI which Microsoft introduced for their Windows 7 Phone and the upcoming Windows 8, and there are already some desktop applications that are following the design philosophy. Mishra Reader is a desktop Google Reader client that combines the sleek animations and smooth transitions of Metro, with the [...]
If you are looking to generate quick RSS feeds for your website, then there is no shorter way to do it than Feed Dude. This tool lets you create RSS files for any website which you can load into RSS readers or as a plugin to catch content from other websites. Feed Dude is pretty [...]
Twitter’s native interface has a lot of room for improvement. Thankfully there are various Twitter clients with better interfaces which make it easier to follow friends, stay updated with celebrities, and read news. One such site that offers Twitter users an alternative, better interface is DownTweet. DownTweet is a website that is absolutely free to [...]
To stay in touch with your favorite websites, the best method is to subscribe to its RSS feed. But the feed view often requires you to click a bunch of links before you can read the text. Here to help you with this matter is FeedsAPI. FeedsAPI is a free web service that can convert [...]
Some of us love RSS feeds and wouldn’t read otherwise. RSS Search Engine lets you search for feeds across the web based on either topics, from a particular site, or a combination of both. You can also search using categories like “tech news” and use popular search engine options like “allintitle” or “inurl”. One of [...]
FlipBoard, the iPad app that turns your content into a magazine style display, is all the rage these days. PressJack is a different app that brings this concept from the iPad to your browser. Once you download the free PressJack software, you can create 5 digital magazines per month by simply entering the URL of [...]
Google Reader, while a very useful service, could use some improvements to its interface. If you are looking for a better way to read your feeds within Google Reader while keeping the basic interface unchanged, check out Super Google Reader. It is a browser extension for Google Chrome. It provides readable content or iFraming of [...]
Ofelio is a search engine that searches for topics across all kinds of RSS feeds. That means that unlike other search engines which crawl a webpage to find potential content, Ofelio will go through the RSS feed of that page to track topics. Clicking on the options icon, which is located just beside the search [...]
RSS feeds are a great way to send and receive content, but the fact that they only display a little bit of the content reduces their usability. FullTextRSSFeeds takes care of that by letting you convert partial rss feeds to full text ones. Simply enter the URL of a regular RSS feed and click submit. The [...]
You can easily add your RSS feeds to Google Reader and stay updated with your favorite websites. But for many people, the interface of Google Reader is too basic. For them, a better alternative to Google Reader’s native web interface would be the visually appealing desktop Reader client, WebReader. WebReader is a desktop client for [...]
Feed.nu is a cool WordPress plugin that lets you create an custom Android app for your blog. This is very useful for bloggers who want to reach a growing mobile audience. You only need to install this tool like any normal WordPress plugin and have the app configured for your blog within minutes. The app [...]
You probably know about Instapaper, the text-only read later service that lets you quickly bookmark online content for reading later in a clutter free, text-only interface. It’s a great service except for one issue – it doesn’t let you automatically subscribe to an RSS Feed of your choice. Instascriber is a tool developed by Hung [...]
Google Reader is one of the most popular RSS feed reader apps. But if it you want something with a more appealing and friendlier interface, then check out a web service called NewsBlur. NewsBlur is a free online feed reader software app. It lets you subscribe to a maximum of 64 feeds; the premium account [...]