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Highlightr Ranks RSS Items Based On Their Social Buzz In Google Reader [Chrome]

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For anyone who uses Google Reader as their primary RSS reader, finding new items in the aggregator is nothing new. The number of items, however, would depend on the number of feeds that you've subscribed, and if that is a lot, daily unread items might touch staggering numbers. As Google Reader, by default, does not offer an extensive set of filtering options, it might be hard to locate what really interests you. This is where Highlightr comes in useful. This is a simple Chrome extension that basically highlights popular feed items using rank calculations based on the popularity of the article across multiple social networks, like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc, and adds a rank at the end of each post title. The higher the rank, the more popular the article is. Details past the jump. Read More

Voyage Displays RSS Feeds In A Scrollable 3D Space [Web]

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We’ve covered many different types of RSS readers in the past, but Voyage stands out in the way it displays the feeds. It is a free online RSS reader that displays feeds as floating items in a 3D space, arranged along a timeline. Feeds are stacked in layers, newer items are bold and bright, whereas older feeds appear faded in the background. This forms a 3D effect as you you scroll through the news. Clicking an item brings it to the front and you can. You can use your arrow keys or the mouse wheel to go back in time and navigate feeds using the timeline. The slick 3D interface makes reading so much easier and lets you read your favorite stories in a whole new way. Read More

LeFeed Analyzes Your Facebook Preferences & Auto-Reorders Your Feed Accordingly [Web]

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LeFeed is an intelligent web application that lets you view your Facebook feed in a unique way; it learns what kind of content you like as you browse Facebook, and suggests what it believes would interest you. After you log in to LeFeed via Facebook, it starts analyzing your interests, your friends' interests and your usage statistics, allowing you to see important updates first. Additionally, it recommends new content and subjects to you. With it, you can view your feeds in a more organized manner, with less clutter, as content is arranged into different categories, such as photos, status updates, videos, links and more. You can also like/dislike posts, update your status on Facebook directly from LeFeed and filter posts by different categories. Read More

‘Google Reader Inline’ Pulls Full Text For Truncated Feeds [Chrome]

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Won't it be great if you could read full-text feeds within Google reader, without having to open all those extra tabs? Google Reader is a popular RSS and Atom feed reader that displays partial content for certain feeds. In order to view full-content, you have to right-click the links and open them in new tabs. This process can not only be time consuming, but also causes the tab bar to get cluttered after a while. Google Reader Inline is a Chrome extension that makes things easier by converting truncated feeds into full ones automatically. It loads full-form articles within the Google Reader frame, so you no longer have to open new tabs to view full content. Moreover, you can even view the original article in a neat page that is overlaid the current one. You can then click anywhere outside the page to go back to your feeds. Read More

Pixable: Browse Facebook Photos In iPhone-Like Interface [Chrome]

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When we browse through our Facebook newsfeed, we come across a massive collection of all kinds of photos, uploaded by our friends and family. To see all these images we need a lot of time, and with all the effort, it is still possible that we might miss out on the ones that actually matter to us. This is where Pixable, a Chrome extension, comes in handy. This smart tool organizes photos in a gorgeous way and lets you see all of them in one slick pop-up. The extension is fully customizable, and after you’ve connected your Facebook account with Pixable, it instantly pulls photos from Facebook feed and creates a photo stream that you can view right in the pop-up. Additionally, Pixable ranks and sorts your friends’ photos based on popularity and your connections, giving you a more personal viewing experience. With it, you can flip through feeds like New Cover Photos, My Likes & Comments, Top of the Day, New Profile Pics, Most Recent Photos and others. The extension makes sure that you enjoy your friends' photos by following them, and receive notifications when they upload or when they are tagged in photos. Read More

Subpug: Read Feeds In A Beautiful RSS Reader With Comments & Filters [Web]

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Google Reader lets you read feeds from all your favorite websites, but if you're bored of the same old dull look and want to browse feeds with a better visual experience, then Subpug brings all your favorite websites, blogs and news sources into one convenient place. This RSS reader is specially designed for reading long articles without any visual clutter. With it, you can add feeds from your favorite websites or read feeds from existing categories and you can also hide the topics that you don’t like. The service does not require any sign up or account, and all you need to do is choose a subscription starter package, and your subscription will automatically be saved in your browser. Read More

Remove Clutter From Google Reader & Hide Left Sidebar [Chrome]

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The new Google Reader  design hasn’t been received well. While the old layout wasn’t the most stunning way imaginable to present your feed, it didn’t need the cosmetic changes that Google made to ensure all its services and their interfaces blend well together. The new interface seems to be cleaner and incorporates the black Google bar well but Google Reader is still pretty cluttered. Google Reader Readable, an extension for Chrome, provides users with an extremely minimal interface for focusing purely on Google Reader articles. The extension is specially useful for people who tend to get distracted by sidebars and other content on Google Reader. It works by removing clutter and displaying articles in a neat and clean layout. Moreover, the left navigation panel only appears when you hover your mouse over the area, keeping it hidden so you don't get distracted while browsing RSS feeds. Read More

Auto-Detect, Subscribe & Launch RSS Feeds In Google Reader/ Feedly [Chrome]

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TPGoogleReader is a Chrome extension that automatically opens unread items from Google Reader in new tabs and marks them read. The articles are opened in full-version and the number of unread feeds is also displayed on the extension’s icon. This Chrome extension makes reading and subscribing to feeds an easy and pleasant experience. TPGoogleReader lets you specify the number of unread items it should open in tabs which prevents an explosion of tabs in a single window should you have something close to 50 unread items in your feed. The extension also offers users with icon click functionality, which allows you to open the pop-up on a single click, open Google Reader on a double-click and open unread items on a triple-click. The icon-click actions are fully customizable and can be changed from the extension’s Options. Moreover, you can toggle between the automatic or manual mode, and open one, five, ten, twenty, fifty or all unread items at once. As the tabs are opened for the unread items, the unread item count on the icon is automatically decremented in the toolbar. Read More

Read New Google Reader Feeds When Offline [Chrome]

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MagicCube FeedStore is a useful Chrome extension that allows you to read Google Reader feeds even when you're offline. After you’ve installed the extension, you can access Google Reader feeds through a button in the toolbar. MagicCube FeedStore works by checking new unread feeds and downloads them to the local storage automatically. The button in the toolbar comes with a count for the number of unread feeds. Feed Store is a powerful offline RSS reader that provides users with an iTunes-like user interface, and almost the same hotkeys as Google Reader. Users can easily customize the layout and style of the feeds according to their preference.  The style, fonts and layout of the feeds can be changed from the Preferences. Read More

Streamified For iPhone: Create Your Custom Feed From Various Sources

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Google Reader is pretty widely used by a lot of people to stay in touch with the latest happenings around the blogosphere, but some times you just need an app which will let you personalize the stuff you want to stay in touch with. Won’t it be great if there was a way to combine your social network feeds with those of the blogs you like to follow? Streamified is an iOS app which lets you do just that. Using this app, you can create a customized stream, tapping into feeds of various sources pertaining to humor, science, technology, social media and just about anything you can possibly think of. Read on to know more about this simple, yet useful app. Update: The Android version of Streamified has been released, and you can find its Google Play Store link at the end of this post. Read More

News360 For WP7: Read & Share News Items From Various Sources

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If the name News360 sounds familiar, don’t be surprised, as the app has been around for iOS and Android for quite a while (covered in detail by us). The popular news app is also available for Windows Phone 7, and it boasts of all the awesome features, and attention to detail, which define the app on other platforms. There might be a lot of news related apps in the Marketplace, but News360 is unique in the sense that it taps in to over 300 sources, and present the gathered news to its users under a single feed. Not only that, you can categorize items according to their topics, view news related to your location, and there is a whole separate menu for photos. Read More

Cappuccino: Read, Manage & Share Google Readers Feeds [Mac]

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Google Reader, as a service, is widely used to manage feeds, but not everyone is a fan of the web interface. After the recent redesign of most Google services, there may even be fewer users of the design. It is for this and other reasons that people turn to apps for RSS feed management. Cappuccino is a Mac app that lets you mange all your Google Reader feeds, syncing with your Google account and pulling all your feeds. You can view each item as as feed or as it would appear on the webpage. Any item can be opened in Safari and shared via email, Facebook, Twitter and Google+. The app presents a clean reading interface in the Feeds view, is ad free, and has an excellent search feature. Read More

Subscribe To, Organize And Play Podcasts With Ziepod

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Ziepod is a podcasting client for managing, downloading and playing podcasts. You can add audio and video podcasts from a number of feeds, and even search for new podcast episodes. Ziepod helps you maintain your podcast directory by allowing you to define what items should be deleted after a specified period of time. You can make Ziepod assign values to help you identify playing items in such a way that you can avoid meaningless titles. This is because ID3 Tags provide extra information embedded inside MP3 files, which is detected by your MP3 player to show the title of playing items. You can also use Ziepod to add podcast episodes to your iPod device without using iTunes. Read More

Trap!t: A Personal Assistant For Your Favorite Web Content

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Browsing different websites for your favorite articles, trends, news, sports, foods etc, can be really frustrating, and would usually require a lot of effort. This is where a brand new web app, Trap!t, comes in handy. It acts like a virtual personal assistant for web content, and searches the internet round the clock to bring you the most-relevant content, displaying them as Traps. Trap!t displays content streams based on user behavior and activity. Furthermore, it dynamically learns what kinds of topics you like. You will be able to find a range of categories in Featured Traps, ranging from Trending and News to Lifestyle, and many more. You can check out different traps and add them to your list. Another great feature of Trap!t is that it doesn’t just pick content from the most common and widely-used websites, but also searches a range of less popular ones. Read More

ReaderSharer Restores Sharing Options For New Google Reader [Chrome]

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The revamped design of Google Reader is now considerably different compared to the classic look, and does not allow you to share like before. Anything that you share is now going to happen via a +1 to Google+. Yesterday, we covered a stylesheet fix for Google Reader that addressed the spacing issue, but if you want the old sharing options back, check out ReaderSharer. It is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to view your shared items and those from the people you follow. It will also display whether an item has been shared or not. Additionally, it, too, reverts the new fonts and spacing of feeds, providing a more all-in-one-package of sorts. Read More

Bamboo Feed Reader For Firefox Conveniently Allows You To Manage Feeds

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Bamboo Feed Reader is a Firefox add-on that enables you to monitor and manage your RSS feeds,  supporting Atom and RSS formats. You can easily add feeds by copy-pasting URLs. Furthermore, it allows you to block ads for HTML content, and provides automatic updates. The add-on features two different views for feeds; they can either be displayed as a List or Content. You can filter your feeds by selecting the All or Unread options. Read More

Keep Track Of Facebook Feed Updates With Facebook News Feeds Reader

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Numerous updates from Facebook friends are often overlooked due to the enormous size of the Facebook feed. To some extend, this problem can be resolved by using the Facebook subscription feature. However, the problem is that the subscription updates are added to your notifications, which can end up mixing up your personal notifications with that of subscribed accounts. For instance, if someone posted on your wall, and you have subscribed to 20 friends, then your personal wall message notification may become difficult to notice among feed updates from 20 friends. Read More

Run Topic Based News Feeds Ticker On Mac OS X Desktop With retickr

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In order to sift through important updates and news from online social media and information networks, one requires a dynamic tool which not only helps filtering required information and updates from multiple social media platforms but also lets you socialize within your joined networks from a single platter. If you’re an avid social media networking websites user and looking for a desktop tool to enhance the way you read and share news and social media network streams, including Facebook and Twitter, with your friends and colleagues, retickr is probably the right tool for you. Read More

Snackr Brings Full-Featured RSS Feeds Ticker On Desktop

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Since latest happenings are brought forward by all News channels at the bottom of screen in a news ticker to let viewers know about updates quickly, you might want a tool which shows latest feeds in similar fashion. Snackr implements this very pattern for reading subscribed web content. To put in a nutshell, it’s a ticker that can be handled in numerous ways. The application is not necessarily meant to replace Google Reader, it is solely designed to keep RSS feeds at your fingertips. While you’re surfing through the web, working on your projects, or roaming around files and folders, just glance at its ticker to keep tab on latest happening without having to manually sift through the feeds. Read More

Read RSS Feeds From Windows 7 Taskbar

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The Windows 7 taskbar was one of the major overhauls that set this version of the OS apart from previous Microsoft offerings. While the taskbar can be useful in many ways, one developer thought it great to give the users the flexibility to monitor their RSS feeds right from the taskbar itself. Hence Taskbar RSS was born. Read More