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Feedly, An RSS Feed Reader

Filed Under (Techie) by Cynthia on Nov 20, 2008 10:29 am

Tagged Under : Tech

Well I’ve been looking around for a feed reader that I really like. I like the idea of RSS but I haven’t really had any good experiences with reading feeds and organizing them and seeing them in a way that I like.

When I was looking into various feed readers I found mention of Feedly. It works in conjunction with Google Reader. I’m not too crazy about Google Reader though I do use it some, and their calendar, and their mail. But I digress. I looked more at Feedly and how it reads Google Reader and displays them in my Firefox web browser. So this is my brief little review of Feedly.

If you click the image on the left here, you will see a larger version of my Feedly screen. I have installed it as a Firefox plugin. I like it a lot.. I changed the settings so that unread posts show up in red so I can easily identify them. I can read the posts and view the images and videos. I can also read the comments from in Feedly. If I want to post a comment, I click the blog entry name, or the comment section, and it opens the post in a new tab where I can comment to my heart’s content.

You can see, in the image, new unread posts are to the right. There are multiple views though… I can view all my feeds from the dashboard with new feeds marked. Or I can view latest posts chronologically, where all the blogs I follow are listed together in chronological order. Or I can view each blog individually.

I do wish it would notify me of new posts.. but perhaps that will come in time. I have set my Feedly page to be my home page so I can just hit Home when I want to see my feeds. And they are all right there!

I can even add and delete feeds right from Feedly so I don’t even see, or have to visit, Google Reader itself.

So far, so good! I hope to no longer miss my friends’ blog posts!

On this day..

Tags: Tech

(2) Comments

YummY! (2 comments.) on 20.11.2008 at 11:02 (Reply)

I’m going to check this out.

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1. Cynthia (147 comments.) on 26.11.2008 at 16:13 (Reply)
  
  Hi Yummy, I hope you like it!