Best RSS Reader
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I was a big fan of using Windows Live Mail so everything was on my PC. But made the switch when Chrome came out and it's got a lot of useful features. If you use Firefox I think there's an extension to combine Gmail and Reader into the same window as well (might of made that up
) so might be worth checking that out.
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I used to use Google Reader for ages but now I use Microsoft Outlook.
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This guy knows the score. Google reader is the GMail of the rss world.
Yup easily the best.
Just thought of another:
- Slick iPhone interface (that loads quickly even over Edge or GPRS)
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So, like, sell me why I should subscribe to RSS feeds and why I need a reader.
It's something I totally don't do.
It's something I totally don't do.
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Its much easier to catch up with a few sites than visit them all one after another. I do find the bigger sites which post tonnes of content are useless though, i visit them separately as and when i can and just know i miss out on content because its too vast. But for smaller sites that update once a day or week its easier to see what happened at a glance from within google reader
All i can say is just try it, some people don't like it some do, its just a different way of viewing sites...
Its much easier to catch up with a few sites than visit them all one after another. I do find the bigger sites which post tonnes of content are useless though, i visit them separately as and when i can and just know i miss out on content because its too vast. But for smaller sites that update once a day or week its easier to see what happened at a glance from within google reader
All i can say is just try it, some people don't like it some do, its just a different way of viewing sites...
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That's what I thought, and it's why I decided not to subscribe to them. But cheers
I have a window permanently open with all my news related tabs. Every morning I CTRL F5 them all start reading. 2/6 of them I regularly browse around (Times and BBC) and the others I know only update sparingly so I pretty much just read the headlines (Arsenal, Arseblog, Straight Dope, The Register).
I have a window permanently open with all my news related tabs. Every morning I CTRL F5 them all start reading. 2/6 of them I regularly browse around (Times and BBC) and the others I know only update sparingly so I pretty much just read the headlines (Arsenal, Arseblog, Straight Dope, The Register).
Yeah the critics will say you're missing the whole website experience (for example) if a web page has a featured section you might not get that on the feed. Another example would be forums, where RSS Feeds can't quite capture the whole new posts in old threads format that's crucial.
As said above though the areas they excel are:
a) Keeping track of a large number of websites quickly. For example if you like the Astronomy Picture of the Day - rather than visiting NASA every day you get it in your feed next to the news headlines, music news, lastest movie trailers etc.
Whilst you mention you keep open a few tabs, of websites you visit a lot (for example I still visit BBC News every day) there might be some sites you don't bother visiting but still like to know what's happening briefly for example maybe Engadget for technology news or something. Once you think of all those other sites suddenly you can start growing your feed collection and the efficiency of RSS really shines through.
b) The other area where feeds are great are for rarely updated sites - such as perhaps blogs. For example I like to know what's happening with the iPhone Dev Team but they only post a blog maybe once a week. It's not worth me opening that site every day just to check if something is posted but with an RSS feed, it will show me the update as soon as it occurs. I can do this for loads of other sites such as Myspace blogs for all my favourite bands etc and then when you've got 20 bands you like and other blogs, it's way faster than checking each one every day.
As said above though the areas they excel are:
a) Keeping track of a large number of websites quickly. For example if you like the Astronomy Picture of the Day - rather than visiting NASA every day you get it in your feed next to the news headlines, music news, lastest movie trailers etc.
Whilst you mention you keep open a few tabs, of websites you visit a lot (for example I still visit BBC News every day) there might be some sites you don't bother visiting but still like to know what's happening briefly for example maybe Engadget for technology news or something. Once you think of all those other sites suddenly you can start growing your feed collection and the efficiency of RSS really shines through.
b) The other area where feeds are great are for rarely updated sites - such as perhaps blogs. For example I like to know what's happening with the iPhone Dev Team but they only post a blog maybe once a week. It's not worth me opening that site every day just to check if something is posted but with an RSS feed, it will show me the update as soon as it occurs. I can do this for loads of other sites such as Myspace blogs for all my favourite bands etc and then when you've got 20 bands you like and other blogs, it's way faster than checking each one every day.
