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Read your RSS feeds on your Linux desktop with Liferea

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 [...]

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

  • Author: Shailpik
  • Published: Nov 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Apple Update: Apple Bans Atom, Endless Racing Game For iPhone, Orange UK bans YouTube and More

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 [...]

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Categories: Apple, Gadgets, Hacking, Mobiles, iPhone

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Google Fast Flip

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 [...]

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Categories: Google, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Combine RSS News With FeedStitch

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 [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Relationship Based News Search

News are usually presented in article form on the Internet with links to related articles in and around the content. Silobreaker provides an interesting alternative to the common presentation with their so called network relationship search.
It basically allows the visitor to enter a search term in their form on top to compute a relationship network [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 27th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

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 [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 25th, 2008
  • Comments: 17

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 [...]

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Categories: Google, Windows, software

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