Feedly

Now, I normally don’t devote blog posts to a single program, but sometimes, one comes around that is so useful, it demands blatant advertizing. If you want to check out many of the other programs I’ve personally found to be useful, check out the page on my website  here.

Anyway, Feedly is a Firefox, Chrome, and Safari add-on that is basically a personalized online magazine with all of the RSS feeds you follow (It also tries to add some of it’s own in the beginning to get you started, but you can easily delete or not subscribe to them). So basically, I’ve got all my feeds and articles all in one place. It’s integrated somehow with Google Reader, so if you use that, this is like it and somehow connected to it, but even better. You’ve got a cover page with all the highlights and everything, and you can make “pages” with topics. Like I’ve got one for politics and another for finance. There are also little cool things like a stock ticker that runs from Google Finance. Also, feeds are really easy to integrate into this. In Firefox, depending on the blog, you might have a button on the URL bar that allows you to add it to Feedly with one click. Otherwise, you just hit the subscribe button like normal in Firefox, then go to its properties where you copy the feed URL, and then you just paste it into the “Add source” bar. Feedly also offers a lot of customization, which is always something I like. I wish it could track my email. I only have a Google account for GTalk, Blogger, and Youtube. My main account is Windows Live Hotmail, which I love and will never change from. But I digress….