While Facebook is as important, if not more important to some people than their email, it is hard not to get distracted with people’s updates and messaging people. Having an alternative way to check your notifications without going to the site or a Facebook app would be ideal. How about

Keeping up-to-date on all of the information we find interesting is really hard to do. Having a place where all of your favorite feeds are is really a great way to save time. Good Noows is a web-app with a Google Chrome shortcut right on your New Tab Page. In a nutshell, you select different popular RSS feeds (or add your own) and they are displayed in categorized page. The page can have different looks like ...

Many people aren't using RSS readers. Some aren't really even too sure what they are. Foxish RSS is a great way for people to start using RSS feeds for their favorite sites. Foxish RSS adds the feed to your Bookmark bar in Chrome. It blends with your other bookmarks, but is updated with articles that site. When you can access the feeds right from your Bookmark bar, it ...

People are using RSS readers a bit more these days. Many of them have used RSS readers for a long time, while others are just starting out. If you are just getting started with RSS feeds, you may be using Google Reader. While Google reader is a fantastic online RSS reader many prefer to access their RSS feeds ...

How do you read RSS feeds on your Mac? If you are in search of an advanced app, you will definitely enjoy Shrook. It is a feature-rich RSS feed reader, without ads or spyware, that also lets you access your feeds on your iPhone, iPad as well as any other Mac or Web browser (via Shrook.com). Feed items are automatically synced and updated every five minutes as long as you're connected to the Internet. However, this advanced syncing feature comes at a small price ...

RSS readers like Google Reader are an amazing time saver if you read a lot of different sites frequently. Even though Google is updating their web apps to a cleaner look, there is still some distraction when you are reading. Reeder for Chrome takes away a lot if that distraction. When you are in the mood to blaze through the 1000+ new articles in your Google Reader, you want it as minimalistic as possible. ...

Google makes things pretty easy to use. Gmail, Calendar are known for their simplified interface. One of the other well-known Google product is the Google reader. There are always ways to personalize these applications to better work with the way you use them. Here are a few tips that would help you manage the Google Reader better. Organizing your feeds When you are using Google Reader as a hub for your information, it is a good idea to be super organized. To do this, ...

There is no dearth of RSS reader apps in the Android Market. While there are quite few good ones already there, the perfect app for enjoying your daily dose of RSS feeds had been missing. Google’s own app - Google Reader (Update - To be discontinued) - is a decent app for the purpose but can definitely improve on UI, offline support and move to SD. The app’s huge size is a deterrent for many ...

Mozilla Firefox has an interesting feature called Live Bookmarks, that lets you subscribe to websites RSS feeds as bookmarks. Your default Firefox Bookmarks include one such feed “Latest Headlines”. It's quite easy to keep track of new updates on a website with Live Bookmarks. Google Chrome lacks this feature, but we can get a very similar feature in Google Chrome, with an extension called RSS Live Links. For those who like Firefox ...

RSS feeds are the best way to stay updated with your favorite blogs or websites, without actually visiting them. They have been instrumental in improving connectivity and giving a push to the flow of information on the web. There are several RSS readers available which you can use to stay updated. We have covered The Top 10 Start Pages, which lists' quite a few good RSS enabled ...