The best RSS feed readers to help you stay up-to-date

Transcript: Hello and welcome to FEEDZY RSS Feed Lite. In this video, I will show you how to getstarted with this plugin and how to display feeds into your blog posts, pages and on yoursidebar as well. Ready? Let's get started! First, you have to log in to your WordPressdashboard and then click on Add New under Plugins. Here, search for FEEDZY and install the FEEDZYRSS Feeds Lite plugin. Once the installation occurs, make sure youactivate it and then move to the next step. FEEDZY allows you to group all your feedsinto a category and then fetch them at once. To create a new category, go to Feed Categoriesunder FEEDZY RSS and click on Add New. From there you can put all your feed URLsin the Category Feeds text area, separated by commas, like so. Name your category and then click on Publish You can now copy the slug and use it as aparameter. More about that in the next step, so keepwatching. To do that, click on Add New under Posts and then click on this "FEEDZY Lite" button above the editor. Remember the "parameter" mentioned earlier? You can use that parameter here instead of the full URL if you... See more →

Key quotes:

• "We’ve tried tons of RSS feed readers but there’s nothing quite like Feeder."
• "Feeder is definitely one of the best RSS feed readers to aggregate all of your news sources into a single-page dashboard for easy and quick viewing."
• "An RSS reader aggregates content from RSS feeds across the web for simple viewing."
• "Feeder is a simple RSS reader for those who consume a ton of content from a variety of sources."
• "Feeder isn’t overly fancy or packed with useless features, it’s a reliable and straightforward feed reader for staying up-to-date on your favorite sources."
• "The best features of Feeder lie in its abilities to customize and modify RSS feeds to the user’s liking."

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• "I’m going to show some tools and ways I use to be up to date with Android development."
• "If you are also interested in general Android stuff which is not related to development, like new gadgets and apps, you can follow r/Android."
• "Also following authors of the random articles/blogs you read about android is also a good way to increase your learning environment."
• "The extension will list the new updates on clicking it and you can read it anytime you want."
• "As I said above, you can follow r/androidDev sub to get latest updates related to android development."
• "Go to androidDev, click the RSS extension and save the feed."

Transcript: Hey guys so many of you who follow this channel will know that I do a series called battle of the browsers where I talk about various different browsers that are available for the Linux desktop and their merits and problems with them and how they line up against the competition and it's a pretty decent and successful series on this channel a lot of discussion about the kinds of ways we engage with the Internet so I today have decided that I'm going to do a spin-off of that particular series where I take a look at various RSS readers and sort of assess their quality and how they stand against other RSS readers now for those of you that don't really know what RSS is and I don't know how many of you there would actually be RSS is basically the is a protocell protocol that takes websites and blogs and anything that has like a news format and then standardizes it into into a protocol so that you can then read that website along with other websites in other applications so what that can effectively mean that you can subscribe to just about any website with a... See more →

Transcript: The Internet has problems. Technorati says there are 50 million weblogs,and as you can see, it's going up. This is overwhelming. Our focus here is on a new and efficient wayto keep up with all the cool stuff that's happening on the Internet. So I'm gonna talk about two ways that you can keep up with what's happening on the web. There's the old slow way - Boo. Then, there's the new and fast way - Yay! Here's the difference between the new andthe old way. This is you, and here are your favorite websites. You log on to your computer, and you're lookingfor something new. You go out to your favorite blogs. Anything new? Nope. You go out to your favorite news sites. Anything new? Nope. Every time you look for something new andit’s not there, you've wasted valuable time. This is the old way. Now, let's consider the new and fast way,which simply means taking these arrows and turning them the other direction. This means that new things from blogs andyour favorite sites come to you instead. It's like Netflix compared to the video store. What we're talking about is using a singlewebsite that becomes your home for... See more →

Transcript: Feed yourself chances are you have several websites you enjoy visiting on a regular basis you visit one spot to read the news another spot to check the weather and yet another page to check out the latest sports scores did you know you can automatically collect that information to display it in one spot RSS sometimes called Really Simple Syndication essentially gives you a way to freely subscribe to a variety of different types of content on the Internet here's how it works the first step to use RSS is to set up a feed reader a reader basically goes out to the internet grabs the latest content from various sites collects it and displays it for you the amount of free RSS content available is staggering how do you choose the content you'd like to receive you subscribe to various types of RSS feeds on the Internet sometimes you'll see an RSS button on a website but you can also add RSS feeds automatically once you're subscribed to a certain content source your reader automatically checks for the latest information on a regular basis at this point you have a single place where you can read information on... See more →

Key quotes:

• "This way, you have a finite, well-curated amount of news every day — only what these particular blogs publish."
• "While it may look like a lot, the majority of my blogs post less than monthly, which amounts to about thirty minutes to an hour of news reading per day."
• "Since I’m in the tech industry, I follow one major tech blog, The Verge, which give me a good dose of today’s tech news, in addition to some others (shout out to Hacker Noon)."
• "Whenever I find a company I’m interested in or that I think is interesting, I follow it on a specific “company blogs” feed."
• "I read news on my Feedly app while I’m on the go — it’s a great way to fill time between moments, and feels more productive/enriching than going through an endless Facebook feed."
• "I’m never getting news from blogs outside of the one’s I’ve subscribed to."

Key quotes:

• "Juggling so many tasks — plus maintaining some semblance of work-life balance — leaves little time to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and strategies in event planning."
• "Take a look at the accounts of some successful event planners including: Julian Solaris, editor of The Event Planning Blog Nick Borelli, founder of Borelli Strategies Christy Lamagna, owner of Strategic Meetings and Events Industry leaders all have one thing in common — they share ideas on Instagram."
• "There are quite a few event planning leaders making a splash on this platform that you’ll want to follow: David Stark Design Candice and Alison Events Group Shiraz Creative You may not have much time to read physical magazines these days, let alone have enough room to carry them around with you."

Transcript: Every time you visit your favorite website searching for new content and find none you waste time RSS feeds are a way to eliminate this process by bringing all of the latest content directly to you in one place let's say you check multiple blogs every day normally you just go to each of them one by one looking for new content but with RSS feeds they're all in the same place you can even make that place your homepage a desktop icon or an app on your phone so what is RSS RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication it's ugly code that looks a lot like HTML it's not user friendly because it's not designed for people it's designed for programs these programs make RSS something that's pleasant to look at and easy to use but we'll get to that a bit you can do a lot with RSS for example you can easily subscribe to all of your favorite news sites and organize them under a single folder called news with services like buffer and HootSuite you can automatically post content from your website to your social media accounts using RSS feeds and with services like MailChimp you... See more →