April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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RSS readers usually come in two avors: online applications and desktop applications. They also
span different media, including your home computer and your mobile phone. And if you prefer, you
can also channel feeds through other tools, such as email, or your browser bookmarks. Following
are a few alternatives to Google Reader. Sometimes they have more features, sometimes less, and
sometimes they are just different . . . and possibly, more to your taste.
Bloglines is one of the most well-known web-based feed readers. You can register for a free account
at http://www.bloglines.com. After logging in, you will see your subscriptions to the left side and the
posts to the right side, similar to what you may be used to in Google Reader (Figure 8-19). Note that
as opposed to Google Reader, at Bloglines items will become read even if you haven’t scrolled them
into view yet (you can use the Keep New checkbox to retain items that you’ve loaded). Bloglines
allows you to subscribe directly to package tracking numbers and other nonfeed items.
Bloglines, a competitor to Google Reader,
with a similar basic layout
SharpReader is a Windows-based desktop feed reader. You can download the program for free at
http://sharpreader.net; note that the .NET framework is required, ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.