How to Use Google Reader, Metro-Style, With Nextgen [Windows 8]
Add a beautiful, Metro-style Google Reader app to Windows 8. If you like your reading experience to be clean, quick and smooth – and you're a recent convert to Windows 8 – this is the app you've been looking for. It even comes with offline reading support. Nextgen Readers does what every Windows 8 app should aspire to: offer a great tablet interface without compromising the desktop experience.
Bring the News to Life With These Slick Google Reader Alternatives
Google Reader works and lead the way in RSS feed readers for a long time, but it's boringly simple, even for Google design ethics. These readers add new dimensions! They add new ways to physically interact with your news. They grow with you and if life does anything, it grows. So, prepare to breathe new life into the way you use news!
Reeder - A Classy RSS Feed Reader [iPad]
RSS feed readers are still the best way to access and manage your favorite website article updates and topical interests. And while I recommend Google Reader as the best baseline RSS feed manager, attractively designed Mac desktop and iOS mobile applications like Reeder for the iPad ($4.99) make the browsing and reading experience even better.
Persona Brings A Magazine-Like Experience To Your Twitter & Facebook Feeds [Chrome]
If you don't want to download a desktop app to use as your Twitter client, there are a few interesting browser-based apps and extensions that can do a great job of offering you all the key features needed to interact with your friends and followers. Persona, a free Chrome app, is not only a great Twitter client, but also offers users a slick interface to keep up with their Facebook accounts as well as RSS feeds.
Sync RSS Feeds to Your iPhone With Byline
Byline is what I would consider to be a meta-reader. It takes your feeds from Google Reader (as well as Instapaper and Pocket), and converts each title to be readable on your iPhone. Of course, there are other apps that do the same thing, so in this case, it's all about your flavor of choice. With that said, take a look at Byline, and see if you like it.
3 Great Menu Bar Apps to Stay on Top of Your RSS Feeds [Mac]
For me, RSS feeds are the ideal way to keep up to date with all the websites I'm interested in - a centralised news-pool, so you don't have to check your browser every five minutes just to stay on top of the news. Google Reader does a great job organizing your RSS feeds, and Reeder wonderfully integrates Google Reader on your Mac. There's no shortage of ways to access those RSS feeds, but part of the problem remains.
Flipboard For Android Tablets Is Finally Here. Here's How It Works
The ultimate tablet magazine is ready for your Android. Long an iPad-only offering, Flipboard arrived for Android tablets in December – and I've barely put my tablet down since. With the ability to pull in content from thousands of sites, Flipboard can also access your Google Reader, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook accounts, meaning everything you care about on the web is literally at your fingertips.
RSS And Beyond: The Top 5 Android News Reader Apps For Free
RSS, which means Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary depending on who you ask, is a popular way to receive news updates from your favorite websites. You can pick and choose which updates you want and they’re amalgamated into a central "inbox" of sorts, allowing you to read your news at your convenience. With smartphones, you can now do all of this through apps.
Brief: The Simple RSS Feed Reader You Were Always Looking For [Firefox]
Recently, after using Google Reader for years without second thought, I started looking around at other readers. It’s not that I’m not loyal or even that I don’t like Google Reader, but using only Google Reader has been like eating only vanilla ice cream for years, and let’s face it, who wants to eat only vanilla ice cream when there’s so much goodness to be had?
No Bells & Whistles: Simply Read Your Feeds With Bamboo Feed Reader [Firefox]
Bamboo Feed Reader is a simple and no-nonsense reader that focuses on the important part of RSS feeds – the reading. You won’t find too many fancy options, eye-catching themes or colorful buttons, but Bamboo Feed Reader provides what it sets out to deliver – a clean and simple reading environment.
Omea Reader: Free RSS Client And Newsgroup Aggregator [Windows]
For blogs, which are still on a popularity rise, RSS is one of the best ways to aggregate news updates. For web-based RSS aggregation, my go-to site is Google Reader. But just as some people prefer to use Outlook and Thunderbird instead of Gmail’s web interface, it may please you to use a desktop client instead of a web-based solution. For that, Omea Reader is one of the best on Windows.
4 Ways to Get Your Google Plus RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are still a very popular method for sharing within social networks these days, so we'll go through a few ways to get your posts and +1s out of Google+ via RSS. There are several options to choose from, with varying degrees of difficulty to use, risk and stability. The choice is yours!
How to Easily Strip the Unnecessary Clutter From Google Reader
Flush away the crap you don't need in Google Reader and get back to what's important - reading. "Google Reader Readable" is both a Chrome extension and a userstyle that removes basically everything from Google Reader except for you what you want - the article you're reading right now and your lists of feeds.
Add Firefox-Style RSS Feeds With Foxish [Google Chrome]
Do you love Chrome, but miss having live RSS feeds in your bookmark toolbar and menus? Foxish brings this famous Firefox feature to Chrome, and it's only a click away. Firefox has, for ages, offered built-in support for RSS feeds. Showing up essentially as folders in Firefox's bookmark menu and toolbar, RSS feeds in Firefox make it easy to keep up with blogs and other websites that regularly update.
Get Desktop RSS Update Notifications With Feed Notifier [Windows]
I work online, and when the Internet is your workplace then you know things move fast. You've got to keep up with trends and you've got to be on the ball or you might miss out on opportunities, excitement, or (in my case) money. Feed Notifier does a fantastic job of delivering RSS notifications more effectively than any software I've used. It doesn't matter if you're an entrepreneur or just someone who likes to keep up to date with the news.
Add Style & Interactivity To Your Google Reader With NewsSquares [Chrome]
One of the most well-known names in the realm of online RSS clients is Google Reader. Even though the service has gradually improved its interface, it's still just lists of texts. If you are a Google Reader user who wishes to try a different interface, you might want to try NewsSquares, a Chrome extension which will add style and interactivity.
Feedly Mobile - Keep Up With News & Google Reader Feeds On The Go With This Stylish App [iOS & Android]
When I first went looking for a suitable news and RSS reader for my iPhone, I had two prerequisites – no price tag (the feeds are free, after all) and Google Reader integration. Feedly with its attractive UI and host of other features is probably that. Let's take a closer look.
Top 4 RSS Music Feeds to Get New Tunes Every Day
Music discovery websites seem to have exploded in popularity lately. There are music discovery social networks, desktop applications (for Linux, see this post) and even online music stations. You can actually even resort to using YouTube and iTunes’ iMix features to discover new songs. There are, indeed, many free ways to discover new music easily.
Taptu: A Multi-Platform Mobile News Reader & Curator [iOS & Android]
News reading is becoming a trend again, thanks to the iPad and its list of available beautiful news readers. If you look at the available alternatives, it seems that most of the good readers are made only for iOS devices. But there are exceptions, and one of them is Taptu: a multi-platform news reader and curator available for iOS and Android.
2 Effective Ways to Browse Through Google Reader Feeds
Google Reader is free, offers unlimited features and is very flexible. It also has a very powerful search platform that makes it easy to explore your feed archives. You may have dozens (or maybe even hundreds) of feeds on your list - and browsing through them daily or weekly can take plenty of time. This post aims at making that procedure faster, which will hopefully increase your productivity and let you spend more time actually reading.