Many Ghacks readers use Google Reader as their main RSS feed reader. It offers an impressive list of features and options and is generally considered to be one of the best RSS feed readers available. One prime advantage over desktop clients is that the update process does not use resources of the local computer system. [...]
Google Redesigned
The Google Redesigned project started as a simple CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) file that changed the layout and design of several popular Google services including Gmail, Google Reader and Google Calendar. It has since then be turned into an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser which made installation and usage easier for many users. [...]
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 [...]
Follow Social Media Conversations With Spy
Spy is a search engine for – as they call it – social media conversations. It is powered by Google’s App Engine and indexes the services Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Yahoo News, Google Reader, Blogs and Blog comments. Just enter any keyword or phrase in the search box and select the amount of results that should [...]
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 [...]
Desktop RSS Reader Newzie
Switching from Google Reader to another RSS reader was no easy task. Google Reader provides a very good feed reading experience that is hard to top. The major problem I was facing with Google Reader was not really related to that RSS reader alone but more to the way the account data was handled by [...]
Google Reader Automatically Translates Feeds
Automatic RSS news feed translation is a feature that might come in handy for numerous users of Google Reader. It is not uncommon to stumble upon a really great website in another language that you might understand a bit or even not all at all. It is still possible to understand what is being said [...]
