Chrome RSS Icon Status: Restored

RSS Subscription Extension is broken. I figured out how to get my orange RSS icon back where it belongs.

#20: CommaFeed with a Bullet

This week, we talk about Le PRISM, Slashdot Gunnarbait, OpenStack Security Guide, the Indie Web, a petabyte of tax data, and an interview with the creator of CommaFeed.

RSS to email to Pocket

Since the Google Reader Apocalypse, I've been sending rss feeds to my email. This is mostly great, but I've been missing the ability to save items I want to read later. I use Pocket for this kind of thing, and just discovered that you can send URLs to Pocket via email. Perfect! If I find … Continue reading RSS to email to Pocket →

#3: Cloud, Lock-in, and Choice

Dave and Gunnar talk about Netflix, Google Reader, open clouds, open security, and how to effectively stalk your seatmates on an airplane.

Adding RSS feeds to Tiny Tiny RSS with Chrome

Get a Chrome extension like the now-defunct RSS Subscription Extension. TechCrunch helpfully provides a list of alternatives. On the Extensions page, choose the RSS Subscription Extension's Options link. Click Add... Enter whatever you like for the description, and the following URL: https://$SERVER/public.php?op=subscribe&feed_url=%s Where $SERVER is obviously wherever you've installed tt-rss. You probably have to have … Continue reading Adding RSS feeds to Tiny Tiny RSS with Chrome →

Save Conference Calls for later on Android

Most hosts are good about publishing recorded meetings so I can listen later. Until now, it's been way too complicated to remember to actually listen to it. But that's all changed, thanks to this setup. BeyondPod Save the audio file to a directory in DropBox. I chose "Podcasts". Configure DropSync to download that directory to … Continue reading Save Conference Calls for later on Android →

Adding feeds to rss2email via Firefox

I posted a while ago about giving up Google Reader in favor of rss2email. There are many wonderful things about getting your news feeds via email, but subscribing to new feeds in rss2email is a little clunky. Ideally, you could click on that handsome RSS icon in the status bar of your browser and have … Continue reading Adding feeds to rss2email via Firefox →

Goodbye Google Reader

So I finally decided that Google had more than enough information about what I liked and disliked, that the laggy Google Reader interface was much more trouble than it's worth, and Google Reader meant a separate and completely unnecessary inbox, which was playing havoc with my workflow. So instead of going for a specialized RSS … Continue reading Goodbye Google Reader →