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Google Reader gets how-to Videos

Posted 01/10/09 at 08:42:44 PM |  by Justin Kerr

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If you’re in to RSS feeds to help capture your news, then you’re more than likely already using Google Reader. Alternatives to the popular RSS aggregator exist, but as one of the best cloud based solutions out there it enjoys one of the largest and most robust user bases. Since it appears as though RSS has peaked as a technology, the creative minds at Google are hoping to bring in fresh blood by offering video tutorials to help get new users over the learning curve. These videos attempt to teach everything from the basics, to the more advanced features. They are no doubt hoping this will help push up adoption rate.

Unofficial how to clips have been around on You Tube for awhile now. In fact, last year’s help video challenge spawned a great many of them. This however, is the first official series offered by the company and even covers off some of the newest features that were just added during December’s redesign. As an avid user of Google reader I can defiantly recommend the advanced tutorials. You are almost guaranteed to pick up something you didn’t know. Want to try out Google Reader with some of the Maximum PC RSS feeds? Look no further.

Do you use Google's Reader? If not what is your RSS reader of choice?

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avatarI use Liferea instead -

Submitted by Vadi on Sun, 2009-01-11 08:54

I use Liferea instead - because it's a desktop program, it doesn't take 200ms or so to do every action. Has a built-in browser in case I'd like to read more about the article (and it's not published in full in RSS).

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avatarrecomendation: rss ticker

Submitted by Bizarre on Sat, 2009-01-10 22:49

I'm not an obsessive newsreader nor do I have hundreds of sites to wade
through. I do the morning routine of skimming my list of sites by hand,
so to speak. I have RSS feeds running stock-ticker style at the bottom
of my firefox which I'm very happy with. I don't have to to any webpage
to look at it, constantly spins stories and if something catches my eye
I can easily access it. I think the name of the extension is RSS
Ticker. It's a great RSS solution for a casual reader and makes a
supplement to "by-hand" news checking.

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avatarTo be honest, i've come to

Submitted by dropslash on Sat, 2009-01-10 20:20

To be honest, i've come to love the simple sidebar RSS viewer in Vista. If the headline grabs my attention i just fire it up and read the whole thing from it's source website. Windows Live Mail grabs them all for me too, but more often then not i just find myself clicking "Mark all as read". 

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