Productive Organizer

Google (finally!) came up with their own Google Reader application. Everyone have been asking for it for such a long time and I wonder why a large software company take this long to realise that this could improve their competitive edge.

The app supports all the basics you’d expect like unread counts, friends, sharing, liking, and starring, but it also has a whole lot more, including:

• Multiple accounts
• Synced preferences
• Full subscription features (subscribe and search from your phone)
• Search

So what do folks think about this?

Clean Interface

Interface is clean like other google applications. It basically translates web google reader to app.

Use of hardware buttons

One great upside is that you can use your volume buttons to scroll between next and previous articles. A lot of people will welcome this.

But personally I use Byline on the iPhone and what I really enjoy is swyping right to left to move to the next article. So this to me isn’t something much.

No offline caching!

This title says it all. A huge downer. I reviewed NewsRob and gReader before and this is what makes this 2 third party application still very relevant.

Send to various other third party apps

This is important to a blogger like me, or as a person who wants to inform my friends on latest happenings on my RSS reader.

Sending to email and twitter is big. But really what is missing is sending to Read-It-Later and Instapaper.

If  you are finding it difficult to keep up with numerous websites providing you with information you require, then having a RSS Reader that aggregates all your news content is very helpful.

What is RSS Feeds?

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it.

Why RSS? Benefits and Reasons for using RSS

RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter. The number of sites offering RSS feeds  is growing rapidly and includes big names like Yahoo News.

What do I need to do to read an RSS Feed? RSS Feed Readers and News Aggregators

Feed Reader or News Aggregator software allow you to grab the RSS feeds from various sites and display them for you to read and use.A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows – integrates with Outlook). There are also a number of web-based feed readers available. My Yahoo, Bloglines, and Google Reader are popular web-based feed readers.Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.

What i use

What happens when i am on the move?

When i am on the move, i have my iPod Touch 3G with me most of the time. Its a great organizer and i do recommend people to get it for no frills organizing.

So do we have a similar solution for Android Devices?

Android is picking up pace and one consideration whether I can make the transition across is having an app on android that can do that.