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Archive for the ‘RSS Readers’ Category

June 22nd, 2008

RSS online and off-line

A typhoon struck our place recently. This resulted in a few hours of life without electricity and even without Internet. Some of the ISPs were knocked out during the typhoon.
Luckily, the ultraportable named Mr E was powered up. And it was just a matter of looking for wifi to get back into the Internet.
Unfortunately, […]

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June 22nd, 2008

FeedBooks is interesting because

There are two main things that makes Feedbooks interesting. The France-based company provides e-books for free in several formats and it allows you to read an RSS feed in PDF format.
It is not limited to searching and downloading e-books in different formats but FeedBooks also allows users to publish their work. Ready for the downloadable […]

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June 17th, 2008

Feedly a fresh read

All I can say is Feedly sexied up my Google Reader. If you are using FireFox as your browser you can install Feedly - which was formerly known as Feedo. It markets itself as one’s start-up page on your browser. Two important thing that it does:
1. It displays your Google Reader feeds like a […]

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June 15th, 2008

NetNewsWire for the IPhone

Ars Technica has a post,Ars at WWDC: Exclusive preview of mobile NetNewsWire, that provides a sneak preview of an RSS reader for the IPhone. As you might have figured out from the title of the Ars Technica post that the reader is NetNews Wire and its developer Brent Simmons.
Read the article it is a […]

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June 15th, 2008

Nokia N810

I was reading through the my reader and came across the Nokia N810. The Internet appliance was originally released in 2007 and then was refurbished early 2008 as the Nokia N10 Internet Tablet WiMax Edition. It is describe as an Internet appliance because it was supposed to act just about anywhere to give a […]

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June 11th, 2008

Google Reader for the iPhone

Mea Culpa: My Mistake: Due to my excitement over the new iPhone (do not spread it around) I made the mistake of stating this release. It is actually around a month old. Anyway for all those new iPhone users you might find this useful. Thank you Paul for pointing this out.
Nearly perfect timing is […]

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June 6th, 2008

Jott makes you listen to your feeds

Voice-to-text service provider Jott makes RSS feeds audible and the feature/service is called Jott Feeds [Source] .
The technology used by Jott text to audio and iare made available via Jott’s toll free number - (866) JOTT 123. It said to be available from any phone with no downloads required. Caveat/Note/Warning:The service is currently available to […]

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May 27th, 2008

RSS, steak and misono tables

It is said that the our world is divided into two when we talk about information. It is not like who likes or who dislikes information but rather – it is how information is served up on a plate.
Think of data, information and knowledge as food a steak perhaps. And nearly everyone loves a good […]

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May 24th, 2008

NewsGator, SenseArray and APML

Remember Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML in the previous post? I this it? , NewsGator Technologies, Inc. said that it included the filtering capabilities of Uprizer Labs’ SenseArray collaborative filtering into its RSS readers [Source]
According to Uprizer Labs CEO Ian Clarke, SenseArray recommends stories or articles or posts based on […]

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May 22nd, 2008

APML made easy by NewsGator

Attention Profiling Mark-up Language or APML is an XML-based format used for capturing the likes and dislikes of person. It is said to be a more accurate way of sharing one’s attention profile. And NewsGator is now making it easier to share one’s APML to other applications [Source]. This makes things less cumbersome.
The purpose of […]

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