Ghacks has finally passed the 10000 RSS Feed Readers mark which is a huge milestone for this website. I’m pretty excited about this figure and hope that it will stabilize there quickly. It usually goes down a bit on weekends and comes back on weekdays. The Feed Analysis that I performed about three months ago [...]

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Sigh. Yes, I got excited about RSS Bandit a couple of days ago after it was released in Alpha with NewsGator and Google Reader Syncing capabilities. I have yet been able to get this to actually work and have found the program so buggy as to be unusable. It frequently crashes, spiked the CPU and [...]

Categories: Online Services, Software

I had the idea some time ago to create a plugin for WordPress that would take articles from my site, for example of the last month, and turn them into a pdf document that everyone could download from my site. I never managed to produce it but it is still listed in the ideas section [...]

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Stefan covered the Firefox add-on brief a few days ago which is an add-on for Firefox that adds a very basic RSS Feed Reader to the browser. I have been using Netvibes before and decided to give Brief a try. I really liked Netvibes but they seemed to have some difficulties lately. Another aspect of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Today I read the article about the Firefox add-on Brief which is an RSS reader for Firefox making use of Firefox’s dynamic bookmarks. I have never used the dynamic bookmarks before, always an external application or web service that would display the RSS feeds that I have a subscription for. When thinking about it it [...]

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I was astonished to see a dip in the amount of feed readers in the last days and decided to investigate the matter. It has happened in the past that Feedburner did have some problems to accumulate the stats correctly or that another party, like Google, did not report the amount of subscribers correctly. This [...]

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RSS Feeds are very handy if you visit lots of websites regularly because they tell you exactly when a website was updated. It’s relatively unknown to the general Internet crowd though, mostly used by blog owners and tech savvy users which is a real shame in my opinion. Feeds will never be something for the [...]

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If you want to unsubscribe a feed in Google Reader you have to click on the Feed Settings pulldown menu and select Unsubscribe from the list. After that a confirmation dialog appears asking you if you really want to unsubscribe from that feed. If you subscribe to feed regularly or want to clean up your feeds you are in for a solid clicking frenzy.

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I have not really put much thought into the way podcasts work until now but when I stumbled upon Dir Caster I began to realize that publishing podcasts is different from publishing blog posts. I mean you have a mp3 file and need a way to create an RSS feed out of it.

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