January 14, 2011
RSS (Rich Site Summary) as we know is the most common way to publish content that’s regularly updated on the web. Using your feed reader, you can have all the fresh pickings without needing to visit each site individually. Today, any website or blog worth its salt syndicates its content via RSS feeds. It is the [...]
January 9, 2011
Last week, we asked you if you live in the cloud. The results show that most of you keep your data on your own machine and may back it up to the cloud on occasion. We gathered a total of 213 votes and these are the results: 54% of you keep your data on your [...]
December 18, 2010
While you can actually log into Google Reader on your iPad, and follow all your favourite blogs and sites on the go, there is no shortage of free apps that make it much easier to stay up to date on the latest news, while some will even give you offline access. With a variety of [...]
December 11, 2010
Find yourself constantly distracted at work by long articles? Stop reading them at work. Send them to Instapaper and read them on your e-book reader of choice with Calibre, regardless of whether that e-book reader has a network connection. Instapaper is a great way to queue articles and blog posts for future reading. It even [...]
December 10, 2010
There are over a dozen RSS feed readers for the iPad and other mobile devices, but the one I keep returning to is Alphonso Labs’s Pulse News Reader. I’ve used several readers in the past including NetNewsWire, Gruml, and even Google Reader. But for reading feeds on the iPad, Pulse makes browsing and reading nearly [...]
November 7, 2010
There are many robust online RSS readers packed with social media features like Google Reader and FeedLooks, and even the more simplified readers like GoodNoows. If the traditional RSS reader approach doesn’t work for you, there are a couple of interesting alternatives for following your favourite sites or topics. Newswall allows you to create your [...]
September 23, 2010
Anyone that knows me well knows that I love RSS feeds. RSS is one of the driving forces behind the connectivity of the web. It is the fastest and easiest way to get your information into the online world. Aibek previously covered 14 cool ways you can make use of RSS feeds, and these really [...]
September 14, 2010
If you run more than one blog or website, then you will know that keeping up with the syndication and promotion of everything new that you write can be a bit time consuming. You might remember to post your blog entry to Twitter or Facebook, but are you really distributing your entries as well as [...]
September 8, 2010
One of the issues I’ve always had with my free Yahoo email account is the fact that it’s so difficult to deal with it anywhere outside of the online Yahoo Mail system itself. There aren’t very many online email systems that will let you extract email from your Yahoo account as easily as you can [...]
September 8, 2010
Do you read a lot of different blogs? You’re reading this one, so chances are good that you do. Keeping track of all of your favorite blogs is tricky in itself. Feed readers like Google Reader are good at organizing all of your blogs into distinguishable folders and whatnot, but because blogs don’t all update [...]
