The 10 Best Feed Reader Apps for RSS, News, and More. If you want to really follow a publication, writer, or something else online and see everything they publish—not just what some social media algorithm throws your way—the best way to do it is with an RSS reader. RSS (it stands for Really Simple Syndication) has been around since the '90s, and it's a way for sites to publish a feed of all their content in a way that can be easily parsed and aggregated by RSS apps. Although pretty much every podcast app relies on RSS, it isn't as publicly popular as it used to be. Still, it remains the absolute best way to combine stuff from loads of different places into one central app.
Instead of having to deal with a social media feed or visit a bunch of websites, you just open your RSS app and get reading, with every article and blog post presented in reverse chronological order. While it's traditional to bemoan the death of Google Reader in 2013 in any article about RSS, I'll skip the eulogy. The 3 best RSS reader apps How we evaluate and test apps. What are the best news readers? - Slant. Announcing Digg Reader. Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly. Welcome to all the new Google Reader users migrating to feedly. Here are some tips on how to adapt to the feedly desktop interface. If you are not running feedly, you can install the latest version free:Feedly for FirefoxFeedly for ChromeFeedly for Safari Related: How to get the most out of your feedly on the desktop (CNET) Translations: Chinese To import your google reader feeds and categories over to feedly, simply login to your feedly using your google account.
Feedly will automatically sync your Google Reader account with feedly. A lot of Google Reader users use their reader as a research/curation tool and need to be able to crunch through a lot of articles very fast. When you hover on an article or inline it, you should see a bookmark icon. Some of our users are designers using feedly to keep up with trends in their industries. At the bottom of the left selector, you will find a link to the feedly preferences. Like Google Reader, feedly includes the concept of tagging. Press ? Google Reader Link Extractor by Peter Shafer. I recently converted from using Bloglines to Google Reader, and one of the problems that I was running into was that my starred item list was growing far too large. I needed to find a way to archive the articles to my delicious account. This link extractor allows me to do just that and more. How it works Just visit the section with the stories that you wish to archive.
This can be your starred items list, your shared items list, or any section in google reader with a list of articles. Save the source code to your harddrive and then import it into delicious or your browsers bookmarks. Note, the tag GoogleReader is added to any links you import into delicious. Install it! This bookmarklet only works in firefox. Bugs & Contact Check back here if the bookmarklet is no longer working. License Google Reader Link Extractor was written by Peter Shafer, student developer, in May 2007. This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL. 57 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Unbreak Your RSS Heart.
Summary: This article contains a selection of 57 Google Reader alternatives that might be able to replace the service in your now broken and lonely heart. If you’re still mourning the loss of the popular online RSS aggregator, these replacements might be able to help you cope with the pain and the agony… [dropcap style="2" size="3"]S[/dropcap]o you’ve heard the news that Google Reader’s shutting down. Shortly after the news was announced millions of people took to the streets of Silicon Valley and started a massive riot. They set vehicles on fire, and started destroying store windows. I’m just kidding of course. Google Reader has been used by many designers (like myself) to keep up-to-date with the latest design news, artistic articles, and as a daily aggregated source of design inspiration, so its loss is somewhat troublesome. There’s another petition that’s ongoing at Change.org pleading for Google to change their decision.
It’s time to move on now. Web-Based RSS Readers #1. . #2. . #3. How To Export Google Reader Feeds And Import Starred & Liked Items. Google is retiring Google Reader, and we just don’t know what to do with our lives – well, our RSS feeds actually – anymore. Fortunately, the grace period before Google Reader goes the way of the dinosaurs gives us ample time to back up our feeds in order to jump ship to an alternative, and Google has provided a simple way to do so. This post details how to export and save your current Google Reader subscriptions so that they can later be imported to any RSS service or app. In addition, we’ll also show you how you can back up the items you’ve ‘starred’ in Google Reader for later access. Export Your Google Subscriptions Head over to Google Takeout’s Reader section.
Wait for Takeout to estimate just how much data you have that needs to be exported. Import Google Reader Feed To An RSS Reader With Google Reader gone, you will have to move on and find either a desktop RSS reader or another online service to fill the gap. Extract the archive that you downloaded from Takeout. Starred?