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When Google Reader was retired, I posted about my search for a replacement . Eventually I settled on TheOldReader .   This had a few headaches - too many other people made the same choice, so they had performance problems.  Then they were going to shut down.   They they got help and weren't shutting any more.   Now they've siaid that only the first 100 subscriptions are free, and that people need to pay to have more than this.   The design still looks a bit clunky. I may yet end up paying them $30/year - it's not unreasonable for the service.   But OTOH, I don't see paying a small amount for any service as a guarantee that it will actually survive. But in the meantime, I'm hunting for options again.    Here's some info about what I've tried. InoReader The first tool that has caught my eye is InoReader .   It is ... a  Cloud based   RSS Reader  aimed to fully replace  Google Reader   and even provide additional tools a...

This post tells the story of my choosing a replacement for Google reader. Every so often, I do a post here on Blogger-HAT which is a little "different". Today, I'm starting the quest to choose a replacement for Google Reader (yes, the turn-off was announced back in March , but there's no point in starting these things too soon - I expect that a few options have improved considerably since then. One way that this post is different is that I'm going to hit publish very soon, with the post just started not just finished.    So if you're a subscriber and want to see what I end up with, you might like to sign up on Facebook or somewhere, so you get a notification when I've finished. So let's get started: First stop:  google.com   [google reader replacement] A cool 66-million results.   Yeah, I'll zip through those in no time. Scanning down the list, I don't recognise some of the top placegetters: The first three are from Google News.   No, don't...

This QuickTip is about Google's March 2013 (spring for them) product retirements, and how they affect Blogger users. For a while, every time the season changes Google have announced a set of product retirements. This quarter's announcement is just out, and you can find it here . In short, the changes are: Apps Script will stop supporting GUI Builder and five UiApp widgets from September 16, 2013. CalDAV API only be available to whitelisted developers, from September 16, 2013. Us Google Calendar's API, instead. Google Building Maker will be retired on June 1 2013. Google Cloud Connect won't be available from April 30 (use Google Drive's desktop app instead). Google Reader stops working on July 1, 2013, Export your subscriptions and use another company's RSS feed-reader. (No recommendations given) The Google Voice App for Blackberry won't be supported from next week. (Use Google's HTML5 app with Blackberry version 6 and over instead.) The Search...

This quick-tip is about subscribing to a YouTube channel using an RSS feed-reader, like Google Reader Most bloggers  know about other blogs and websites in their niche that they want to keep an eye on, to either know what's going on, or as inspiration for their own posts. Previously I've explained that RSS was invented to make this simpler : you can get a summary of changes on all interesting websites in the one place (called a feed-reader), rather than having to regularly visit each site individually. Video is increasingly popular: many bloggers are putting videos in their posts or their posts into videos, and some have even abandoned their blogs and are only publishing new content to a YouTube channel. I've just found that it's very easy to subscribe to a YouTube user or channel in RSS / Google reader, meaning you can see a list of new videos from you reader, without having to go to the channel in YouTube. Follow these steps: Find the channel or person you want t...