Sometimes when you read news on a site you may be interested in additional information or perspectives for a deeper understanding and better picture. While you could use a search engine for that, you could also try the browser extension Periscope of the news aggregation service News360. The extension basically works like related post links [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome

Many websites nowadays offer to send updates to the visitor either with the help of RSS feeds or email. Some websites on the other hand that you may find useful come without those options. If you want to stay up to date, you need to find a way to create custom email alerts or feeds [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Not all RSS readers are the same. Indeed, some are far more useful than others and deserve to be pulled from the pack. One such reader is NewsSquares, a Chrome app specifically catered to the interests of news readers. While still in the final beta stages, NewsSquares is a great way to browse your various [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The way we consume media has changed drastically over the last few years. Instead of watching the nightly news, we are getting news real-time. And the news we get is no longer filtered by big media companies. We’re just as likely to get the news from a person who sees it happen as we are [...]

Categories: The Web

I came into contact with E-Sports back in the day when UT99 was first released by Epic. I played several leagues, mostly CTF at that time and enjoyed the competition tremendously. Back then E-Sports was not really ready for mainstream, maybe with the exception of Korea and their state religion Starcraft. I quit after the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, The Web, Tutorials Basic

Apple has begun the week a bit weirdly by banning Atom out of Mac OS. Whether this will last, we don’t know yet but if it is made permanent then the hackintosh netbooks will have some major difficulties running. In another interesting turn of events, Orange has this T&C in place that actually blocks apps [...]

Categories: Apple, Gadgets, Hacking, iPhone, Mobiles

Google and Microsoft are constantly working on new services and features of their search engines. Microsoft introduced a visual search option in Bing yesterday which allowed search engine visitors to access and sort information of specific niches visually. Google introduced a new Google Labs feature called Google Fast Flip which is offering a new reading [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

FeedStitch is a news aggregator that can combine multiple RSS news feeds and other data sources into one RSS feed or Json format. It is by far not as complex as Yahoo Pipes but provides a comfortable and fast way of combining multiple news sources into one. FeedStitch offers multiple third-party ways of logging into [...]

Categories: Online Services