Tag: READ

Read It Later, the popular Web reading list app, has finally launched an official Android app. Best of all, it's heavily discounted right now and selling for just 99 cents. Like its iOS counterparts, Read It Later Pro for Android offers clean, distraction-free reading of all the items you queue up as you browse the Web. Offline reading support is provided, and fonts can be adjusted to your ...

We showed you GooReader back in August, and it was already a very slick way to read Google Books titles on your Windows desktop. It's now been updated to version 2.0, and GooReader is looking good and more functional than ever before. In addition to getting a bit of a facelift, GooReader 2.0 lets you highlight blocks of text or draw little notes on a page. There's no text tool this time around, ...

I primarily use Google Chrome for my desktop browsing, but I do a fair amount of surfing on my iPod touch as well. ReadItLater is an awesome way to bridge the browsing gap between the two -- allowing me to file things away to check out another time. There's already a solid iPhone app, but no official Google Chrome extension. No matter -- Postponer is an awesome ReadItLater extension for ...

Google has added a new way to share your favorite feeds and articles with friends, through Google Talk, aka the Gmail address book. Google Reader has included a "Share" button for a while now, but if you wanted people to actually read your shared listings, you had to direct them to a URL or RSS feed. Now your Google Talk contacts can also see the items you're sharing on their Google Reader page. ...

Online applications are great, but what happens when you can't get a connection to the internet? Whether it is because you are on an airplane, or in the middle of nowhere camping, and have to get certain emails, calendar items, or files, you are quite possibly out of luck. Its sure a bummer, and one of the reasons why so many people are hesitant about using online applications for their most ...

LeapTag is a new way to discover all of the content you are interested in. Its way to read RSS feeds that enables users to locate news, blogs, books and other sources of material that match personal interests. However, it is not an RSS feed reader. Users can sign up and download a browser toolbar. Through this toolbar you subscribe to tags and topics. LeapTag then scowers the web and finds links ...

BlogRovR is a site that has just been launched by the team behind Stikis, creators of the "write notes wherever you browse" overlay. BlogRovR will let users know about content from blogs that they normally read by telling them about content when and where they are likely to be interested in reading about it. It works by downloading an application, and entering in blogs that are frequently read. ...

SimulScribe is offering a unique solution for users of voice mail; A way to convert voice mail into readable text. SimulScribe transcribes voice mails and sends them directly to your mobile device as text or email messages. Its sometimes a hassle to check voicemails and write down notes from messages -- and its so much easier to take a glance at txts that come in -- so what better way than to get ...

Continuing on our obsession with RSS today, comment 87 from James on my RSS Readers: Sound Off! post got me thinking. If anyone out there does not use RSS, why not? What don't you like about RSS, or what makes you not want to use RSS? Living in a very saturated tech world myself and being an IT administrator, I use RSS as a part of daily life, and don't really understand why you wouldn't use it ...