RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it’s nice to be able to get all of those feeds centralized on your desktop.
For Linux there are plenty of possible RSS feed readers. One of my [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Nov 12th, 2009
- Comments: 3
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RSS Reader FeedDemon 3 Beta 1
After a seemingly endless odyssey of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) reader tests which led from web browser based readers like those in Mozilla Firefox or Opera to website based RSS readers like Google Reader to desktop RSS readers I finally ended up with FeedDemon. FeedDemon offered a wealth of features but more importantly the speed [...]
FeedDemon RSS News Reader
Less than a month ago I switched from Google Reader to Newzie mainly because I wanted to use a system that would work independently from the web browser. Newzie looked really great and fast but it turned out that it had a few quirks that made me look for alternatives. The main problem was that [...]
Google Reader Essentials Userscript
Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts.
A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long time [...]
FeedDemon 2.8 Beta 2
There are a whole lot of web-based feed readers which compete fiercely, but few desktop based applications. In fact FeedDemon and perhaps a couple others like RSS Bandit and RSS Owl represent the majority of desktop applications.
FeedDemon is the most popular program due to the whole set of services Newsgator has created for connecting feeds [...]
Google Reader Now Offering Option To Sort Alphabetically
Just four days ago a post entitled How To Sort Feeds In Google Reader Alphabetically Again was published on Ghacks that helped users of Google Reader to sort their feeds listing alphabetically again. The default sorting is alphabetically which becomes void when the user begins to drag and drop feeds around in Google Reader. Four [...]
Create RSS Feed Newspapers
Computers are really nice for information gathering but nothing beats reading a book or newspaper on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee at a breakfast table. That’s probably what the developers of Feed Journal thought as well because they have developed an application that transforms RSS feeds into a newspaper format which can then be printed and read offline.
