Tag: READING

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 ...

Readability is a popular web service which strips articles of all the surrounding ads and clutter and then formats them for easy reading. It's been integrated into several apps and even co-opted for Apple's Safari Reader. And now, Readability is going freemium and offering a paid monthly subscription offering extra features with 70% of the money going to support writers and publishers on the ...

Unlike Apple, Google still hasn't come through with its own digital content services for the Android platform. We've known for some time that a Google music service is being worked on, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that Google is also working on a "digital newsstand" for its mobile OS. Major publishers like Time Inc., Conde Nast, and Hearst Corporation have been approached, though ...

There are a ton of add-ons that dim the screen while you're watching a video or playing a Flash game. Heck, some Web sites even have this functionality built right in, no add-on required. Reading Glasses for Chrome does the same, but for text. As you can see in the screenshot, with Reading Glasses, only the post text is dark, while all other page elements are grayed out. This is accomplished by ...

Want to make text on webpages more readable without zooming everything else or editing your default fonts via the wrench menu? Have a look at ChromeVis, a new Chrome extension from the folks at Google that acts like a magnifier for the text you select on a page. Since this is an official Google extension, it's no surprise that ChromeVis supports several keyboard shortcuts. The lens area can be ...

Read It Later is a service that lets you bookmark webpages to, as the name would suggest, read later. We first covered it when it was just a Firefox extension, but it's evolved quite a bit since then. The new iPhone app is particularly nice, offering offline reading of your saved pages, and a text-only reading mode that brings to mind the similar Instapaper app. Read it Later's iPhone app brings ...

Readable App is a bookmarklet you can use to display text from any webpage in a more easily-readable format, according to your preferences. If that sounds familiar, it might be because you've heard of Readability, a similar service I covered on Download Squad recently. The author of Readable App knows about Readability, acknowledges he borrowed some color settings from it, and offers a list of ...

Google's Book Search already provides PDF download links for all the public domain title it indexes, like the works of William Shakespeare. It's a handy way to peruse titles later when you don't have high speed internet access available. Suppose you want to check out a title like the February 1976 version of Ebony Jr. Then what? You could manually browse it one page at a time and save each image, ...

If you're in the mood to read some classic works of literature, head over to Classic Reader and check out their massive library. No special software is required, as everything is prsented in standard HTML format for reading right in your favorite browser. The library currently contains more than 3,400 works by 346 different authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allen Poe, and - ...

Bloglines has just packed a bunch of new features into its online news feed searching, subscribing to and reading service, and it all begins with a start page. Bloglines headlines its new feature developments with a personalized start page. This is the page that brings everything together in a quick and easy view with an AJAX interface. There is nothing like starting feed reading off with a view ...

Forget about Google Maps mashups, why not enter the new world of book mashups. Mixbook is an online tool that allows friends to collaborate and create pages for a book, then mash them up all together and create one loving publication. Layouts and backgrounds can be put together with images and text to create these 8x8" books that can be both printed and viewed online. Nothing is more meaningful ...

Adobe released its first look at the newly re-branded myFeedz.com social news site on Friday. The website learns what users like and keeps up with interests in order to serve content. It all started when InterAKT launched their public beta last August, and sold to Adobe a month later. The service is now located deep-within Adobe's Labs, who have been on a web 2.0 kick lately. myFeedz is aimed at ...

Since I'm a card-carrying Google Reader convert, I've been loosely following the discussions in its Google Group. I'm constantly impressed with how active some of their engineers like Chris and Mihai are in the conversation, and just the other day they announced some small but much-requested updates and bug fixes to Reader, including: First and foremost: An "Add to folder" menu after using ...

I was first introduced to Starfall.com by my mother-in-law, who specializes in teaching reading and life skills to adult special needs students. Her classes use the site very successfully to assist in learning to read. She first suggested we show it to my son when he was two, and I was surprised to find that he loved exploring the site, and watching the animations. Now just three years old, he ...

Not enough time for reading? Want to catch up on the classics? DailyLit might be just what you've been looking for. It's a simple service that will email you classic literature a few pages at a time, so you can split up your reading over the course of a few weeks or months. How long it will take you depends on how long the work is and how often you receive it. You can set the delivery frequency to ...