Tag: FEED READER

It's now been a couple of months since Google Reader hit Android, which didn't quite live up to expectations. Luckily, developers at Google seem to have been listening to the innumerable complaints, and the app received its first big update today, bringing with it a choice of widgets, more syncing, and more overall functionality. The widgets are probably the first thing that users may be ...

Reeder, one of the best RSS readers for iOS devices, has just landed on the Mac. It's still in the draft stage, but it's got all the features that make the mobile version awesome. It pulls your feeds straight from Google Reader, making initial set-up extremely quick and easy. Integration with sharing and bookmarking services also carries over from the iOS version of Reeder: Instapaper, Read It ...

Google Reader is a hugely popular - and very effective - way to subscribe to feeds from your favorite websites. What if you want updates from a website that doesn't have a feed, though? Reader can now solve that problem and allow you to subscribe to the site's changes anyway, with custom feeds. Reader will add a snippet to your new custom feed whenever the site updates, keeping you on top of any ...

Sure, Google Reader is all the rage these days, but some folks still prefer a powerful desktop app for reading their RSS feeds. RSSOwl, a cross-platform, open source app, just got an update to version 2 that makes it competitive with the best readers out there. Its most important new features include the ability to import OPML files - essentially, your list of feed subscriptions - from another ...

Just because you subscribe to an RSS feed doesn't mean you want to read every single thing in that feed. What if you read Download Squad just for Brad Linder's posts, or you're only interested in posts about Google? FeedScrub might be what you're looking for. It lets you vote each of your RSS articles up or down, training it to only display the stuff you care about. You then subscribe to the ...

This blog's parent company, AOL, has launched a new myAOL portal. The site includes three new services: myPage: a personalized start page Favorites: an updated feed reader Mgnet (pronounced "magnet"), a customizable news page that selects news for you based on your reading preferences The feed reader feels a lot like a cramped version of Google Reader, but with a nifty new "mix and ...

We woke up this morning thinking it was a slow news day. It turns out there's plenty of news going on in the world -- it's just that Google Reader hasn't been keeping up with all of our favorite RSS feeds. Sometime around 11:00 last night, Google Reader stopped updating feeds. The online RSS reader started working again at about 9:00 this morning. A Google representative wrote in the user forums ...

These days it seems like the whole world has shifted over to web-based RSS aggregators like Google Reader and Bloglines. If you're a holdout and prefer to use a Windows desktop application reader, you might be pleased to note that NewsGator's FeedDemon has recently had an update to version 2.5. FeedDemon is widely accepted as the best Windows-based offline reader, and the only reason that it ...

Feed reading might be a little time intensive for some busy bodies. Open an application or web location, read, and repeat. How about making it a little easier? Anothr is trying its best to speed feed reading up. We covered them back in October with the release of their RSS aggregator for Skype, and now they enter the market with a reader for users of Google Talk and Jabber clients. To get Anothr ...

Blackberry and Java-enabled cellphone users can now use NewsGator Go!, the mobile version of NewsGator's RSS feed reading software. Up until now, the NewsGator Go! was only available for Windows Mobile devices. While web-based NewsGator accounts are free, NewsGator Go! will set you back $30. But the program has a few nice features, including the ability to synchronize with your online account, the ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Free_RSS_readers_for_Pocket_PC'; Alien6 recently released a new RSS reader for Windows Mobile, and it looks like a great little news reader for people who prefer the look and feel of a newspaper to RSS feeds. But here at DownloadSquad, we're RSS junkies, and it's hard to beat a good RSS reader for sifting through piles of information every day. And lucky for ...

I started using Google Reader a few months ago, largely because it's fast, customizable, and lets me combine all of my feeds into a "river of news." In other words, I can read my news based on when it came in rather than what source it came from. But up until I switched to Google Reader, I was a pretty big fan of NewsGator. It's got a clean look and feel, it's easy to use, and has podcasting ...

Today's release of FeedDemon 2.1 beta seemed like a nice little treat. After the release of NewsGator Go! last week, it felt like a really solid one-two punch from NewsGator. Right on! But then as I'm using the new version of FeedDemon, I find updates notifying me of minor (but pretty wonderful from a usability perspective) updates to Bloglines, and the Google Reader update that David already ...

I've had an invitation to FeedLounge in my Inbox since July, and now I'm never going to get to use it. FeedLounge is yet another web-based feed reader service, but has gotten pretty stellar reviews, and has just opened up to the public. It has the requisite AJAXy interface ("you may quickly forget that you’re using a web application"), a full set of keyboard shortcuts, three ...

In the not especially surprising news department, Redmondmag.com is reporting that Microsoft is planning to include an RSS aggregator in Outlook 12, to be released with Vista in the second half of this year. This is bad news for the likes of NewsGator who sell plugins that give Outlook feed capability. It will be interesting to see how Microsoft will reconcile the inclusion of feed support in both ...