Tag: RSS

Times, one of the more interesting RSS reader options on OS X, just got an iPad version. The iPad is a perfect fit for Times' newspaper-like layout, which looks more like a magazine in the iPad version. As much as I love Flipboard as a way to read articles on the iPad, I know that some people aren't hooked into the social networks that Flipboard relies on for links. If you want a ...

Hello! I'm back [at the turn of the tide...] To celebrate, here's a very neat Chrome extension that mimics (albeit a bit clumsily) Firefox's live bookmarks: Foxish live RSS. If you've never used Firefox's live bookmarks, you're missing out! They're just like normal website bookmarks, but using the magic of RSS they update every few minutes. For the vast majority of Web users, a dedicated RSS ...

If you've got a huge display that you want to set up as a news ticker, GlowDart is worth a look. It's Web-based, so it doesn't matter which OS you're running. It's got huge text headlines that are readable from a distance, and it scrolls vertically. Light and dark themes are both available. The coolest thing about GlowDart is the ability to add your Twitter or Facebook account to it, so you ...

Posterous, as I'm sure you're all aware, is the supremo light-weight blogging platform. Not only is it fantastically easy to use, but it's also the king of flexibility and interoperability -- you can post to your blog via email, bookmarklet, mobile phone and even Twitter! It also has the ability to import from other platforms: WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and switch from many others -- but yesterday ...

You may not be familiar with Flock -- even with a user base of 17 million plus, it's still not a Web browser that gets a lot of coverage. That could be about to change, however, with the release of Flock v3 beta. Why? Because the new version is really good. I was more than a little put off by Flock 2. Apart from a Mozilla-based core which felt sluggish in comparison to other browsers, the user ...

As you all know, I recently got an Android phone. I also happen to 'partake in the torrent' from time to time. Not that I'm a pirate or anything, but torrents are often the best solution to a given problem! In fact, I love BitTorrent so much that I actually rent a server with 100Mbit connectivity so that I can download stuff very quickly. The problem is... sometimes I forget to stop a completed ...

For some people and in some situations, using a regular RSS reader is not feasible. Sometimes you may want to, or have to, listen to your feeds, rather than read them. BlogRadio is one possible free solution for such a use case. It's an AIR application, which purportedly uses a "natural voice". Excited, I downloaded it to marvel at what new text-to-speech technology they may have cooked up; I was ...

Don't get me wrong -- I enjoy using Google Reader. But the fact that I couldn't rename folders has been a pain in my butt for years. Sure, you could work around it by creating a new folder, moving all your feeds in, then deleting the old folder, but that's a pretty archaic (and downright silly) way to have to do things. Fortunately, a 20% project from Google has resulted in my prayers being ...

I've been searching for a good start page for some time now. While I haven't found anything which is just what I need, I did come across some interesting options, and Sitehoover seems at least worthy of a mention. Like most start pages, it seems to be geared toward novice users. But that doesn't mean it's crappy. Sitehoover lets you set up folders with your sites; once you feed it an address, ...

Feedling is a fledgling desktop RSS reader. Well, I'm not sure if "reader" is quite the term for it. It's really more of a single-purpose widget. As you can see above, it takes one or more feeds and just overlays a list of headlines on top of your desktop. If you're looking for a serious RSS reader, this isn't it. In fact, this thing seems rather half-baked; I could not left-align the headlines, ...

Desktop Google Reader is quite a lofty name for a program; bordering on trademark infringement, I would say. But that's not the only thing wrong with this program. Wait, before I bash it I have to tell you what it's supposed to do: It's basically "Google Reader for your desktop". It plugs into your Google account and pulls feeds and items off Reader, no OPML export needed. And this is ...

PubSubHubbub, the quickly-growing service that pushes out real-time updates to RSS feeds, continued its march toward ubiquity this week when uber-popular blogging platform WordPress started offering PubSub support. PubSub had already hit Tumblr, Posterous, Google's Blogger and more, but I think this is the move that finally takes it mainstream. (Well, as mainstream as anything having to do with ...

RSS readers are a fantastic way to get news, but what if RSS just isn't fast enough for you? Well, Speed Racer, you'll love PubSubHubBub, the protocol that pushed new blog posts out to your reader, instead of waiting for your reader to come looking for them. The result: you get new posts from PubSub-enabled blogs in real time. "But," you wonder, "what if my reader doesn't support PubSub?" If ...

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 ...

We often get comments from readers who would like to be able to subscribe to specific feeds here on Download Squad -- Windows, Google, Firefox -- you get the picture. As it happens, you've always been able to do that. Here's how! The easiest method is to check out our Feeds Page. You'll find direct links to dozens of specific RSS feeds for the categories we use. Whether you're an Open ...