Your bookmarks should stay with your browser unless you delete them. If you have a lot of bookmarks you might want to back them up, just in case. Or store them online so you can access them anytime.
Very useful post, thank you.
I've been trying both igHome and uStart. Here's a bit of feedback.
igHome gives me more or less what I had with igoogle.
Pros : it seems to load faster. It looks very similar to igoogle. I customized it real fast.
Cons : Mostly, Gmail use.
- You can't read (or delete) a mail in the reader. Clicking on a mail entry opens your Gmail page.
- The Gmail module is not as easy to read as it was on Igoogle. I.e. both titles and mail sender names are in the same bold black font. Whereas on igoogle, senders names were in bold and mail titles in normal (not bold), which helped you spot important messages in a much faster, more intuitive way.
Other minor cons :
- All modules have the same length & width. Which is a bit silly when all you want is a search bar.
For instance, I've installed Wikipedia and IMDB search bars, and they float in large empty white blocks.
- The main weather module is from Accuweather. Their forecast isn't worse than the competition. But their art is. It looks like what I could draw, and I can't draw. In short, it's not nice to look at. Which I resent, as it's on my homepage. Other weather widgets are availble. But from what I can tell, none provide an at-a-glance 5-day forecast with simple and pleasant pictograms, in either French or English, in C°.
uStart :
Pros : The look&feel is much more attractive.
RSS feeds come with thumbnail pics. Major headlines appear over a pale blue background, creating a hierarchy that I find more intuitive.
All widgets and RSS feeds are in my home country language. (Namely French.)
As opposed to igHome, length & width of blocks adapt to content.
There is a quick & easy function that imports your content from iGoogle and Netvibes.
It's a tiny gadget, but I like that my background image changes between day & night (clear sky / starry black sky). And that is based on my home country clock.
Cons :
- The help page is very basic. No FAQ, no user forum. The uStart Facebook page seems to be down. So, if I really want help, I'm in for long hours searching web forums.
- There is no RSS / widget search tool, or I can't find it. igHome, on the other hand, has a good one.
- All RSS feeds that I can find are from my home country. This doesn't work for me. I want news from international titles (e.g. The Guardian in the UK, Google News US, etc). Can't find them.
- To log into my Facebook account, uStart wants to access basically everything. Not just my account and friends list, which is already a lot, but events, pictures, etc. Much worse : when I read the list of what it wanted to access, I clicked "cancel"... and it displayed a page saying that I enabled uStart's access to my FB account. I checked my FB apps and apparently, no access was granted. But that is really unpleasant user experience.
Other minor cons :
- The analog clock design is very poor-looking. Difficult to read, small and clunky. I won't use it.
- There seems to be a lot less widgets than on igHome (or iGoogle). This may be because only French-language widgets seem to be available to me.
Overall :
Although I like the look&feel of uStart, I'll probably stick with igHome because it gives me access to many more feeds & widgets that I use on an everyday basis. I also feel more comfident in using a page that has a proper widget search tool and a good help section.
I read your article with great interest. Thank you.
As one comment mentioned that uStart was "way too British" I was keen to look at it as I find most things on offer on the net "way too American" and was delighted to think that something might be British!
I entered the web site and felt that it looked a bit 'odd' - perhaps the colours? Then I read the intro - the English used was apalling - reminded me of the language used in a phishing e-mail. I then searched for 'uStart reviews' on the net and was staggered by the number of reviews and warnings regarding spyware. I have reproduced one below. I, for one, will not risk using uStart -perhaps others would like to be aware of possible problems.
HOW CAN I GET INFECTED WITH uStart.org REDIRECT VIRUS?
The browser hijacker, which is responsible for redirections to uStart.org, can get inside the system in a bundle with freeware and shareware. Besides, various websites may also be involver to the distribution of this virus without any permission asked, so be aware about that. In order to avoid getting infected with this browser hijacker, you should always pay attention to the license agreement of the software and avoid commercial pop-up ads that typically appear when visiting different websites. As soon as this browser hijacker gets inside, it initiates various system's changes: it modifies the start page, default search engine, downloads toolbar and may initiate other unwanted activities. Please, do NOT ignore them and remove uStart.org redirect virus from the system.
I understand your alarm. When I started looking in to this page I ran across the same information.
Further investigation brought clarity.
uStart has a green rating from WOT, one of the services we use to check anything published here. If it didn't have a safe rating from WOT I would never have mentioned or recommended it. WOT isn't perfect, but if there were reports of a virus at the site they would quickly change the rating.
The sites mentioning the virus are themselves rated red or yellow by WOT - my take on it was those sites were likely to pass on malware of some sort.
I've safely used the site for some time, as have others here. I visit using a browser with no ad blocking add-ons so I can see what's there. I never encountered the behavior described above. My browser hasn't been hijacked, there have been no pop ups, license agreements or other odd behavior. My security software has been quiet. WinPatrol in particular is very good at catching any attempts to change browser settings.
uStart is based in France - if you visit their FAQ and other places on the site and visit their Facebook page, most everything is in French with (usually) an English translation. In other words, the people who run the site do not have English as their first language. I normally don't consider English usage as an issue - there are many, many people who speak English as a second or third language on the internet - enough that I don't consider it a usable criteria.
I'm not sure what you're referring to about the colors - most of the start pages I've visited aren't all that slick or polished, tending more towards usability. Every time I visit uStart there's an image of a hot balloon on blue sky background.
With all due respect, until I have different, valid information that uStart is a hazard I'll be leaving it in the article. I very much appreciate you bringing it up, I'm sure others will benefit from your post. :)
Thank you for getting back on this and for the clarification. Having been 'infected' by spyware/malware on previous occasions, I guess I am extra cautious and it isn't easy for an amateur to know what is, and isn't, trustworthy out there, so your comments were very helpful.
I'll maybe have another look at uStart in view of your comments - at the moment I'm looking at igHome (I like it but find it somewhat unwieldy), Symbaloo and PortalPanel. The latter two give helpful information which I haven't yet found on igHome (but that could well be my own fault!).
Still feel very miffed by Google's decision - after all, out of all the iGoogle users out there, I've not heard of one who has written to say they are pleased that iGoogle is being discontinued, and I imagine that most, if not all, are as angry and upset as me. I think Google may well have shot themselves in the foot with their arrogant decision. Why should frustrated iGoogle users remain loyal to Google if Google completely ignores their wishes? After all, loyalty is a two way street.
Being extra cautious is a really good thing to be on the internet. :)
I haven't found a substitute that works me yet - I've set up a page on all the sites I've listed, and I check them regularly.
Google shutting down iGoogle and Google Reader has upset so many people.....it's a topic I see often and the frustration and anger is loud and clear, as is the confusion over the decision to shut these two services down.
I've decided to use Protopage as my new startpage after some test and evaluation on the existent alternatives but since tomorrow there is a blank box named "Adds" at the top of all loaded pages. Moreover, they ask $2.49/mo to remove it. I felt myself blackmailed! Another "migration" is now on course.
Back to square one...
Do you have an ad blocker on your browser? That could be part of the blank boxes with Adds.
If you don't have an ad blocker, you can get one for your browser (as long as it isn't Internet Explorer/IE) and block those ad boxes, that way you won't see them.
Yes, I have add blocker but this works for the browser only, this does not applies to the startpage. My add blocker eliminates adds from my GMail but has no effect on the homepage...
When I said "Add Blocker" I refer to an extension for Mozilla Firefox. Yes, it works nice on GMail but as I've stated before this addon does not prevent Protopage to include adds on my startpage. Guess you're talking about some specific Add Blocker softwares... No, I don't have anyone so that I would be glad if you suggest something in this sense.
Got it, thanks.
You might take a look here:
Best Free Firefox Add-ons
It's updated regularly and has a section on ad blockers plus other categories.
There are some extensions that let you block certain things on a page.
You might want to ask there, I'm sure someone could make suggestions.
You might want to read the comments as well - we are very lucky to have so many knowledgeable members/visitors who contribute valuable information. :)
So, I love Jolicloud. It's amazing, connects to most important social apps, as well as is a place for accessing all of your drops/cloud storage, and has an "App store" type thing which rules. I use it as my new tab page & my home page! It's fantastic for discovery & accessing awesomeness. It has a "my feed" area which is where you go as default, which if connected, shows you items from feedly, facebook, tumblr, and a bunch of other services. I can't remember quite if it does RSS, but I imagine you can accomplish that using Feedly anyways. It may not have widgets, or be a LOT like iGoogle, but I sure love it & use it.
I don't make heavy use of RSS feeds but have found Firefox Live Bookmarks fine. I sort same into their own folder and they can be viewed in the sidebar when I want to do a larger review.
You need to migrate your feeds before it closes, wherever you choose to. Some of the tools allow you to import from GReader directly but it has to be done. Once its closed, your saved feeds will be toast.
Hi Peter,
Correct. After the Feedly extension is installed Feedly will show a pop up window asking for permission to access your Google Reader account. Allow access and it syncs your Google Reader account with Feedly.
Feedly is working on a clone of the Google Reader API and say it will be done before Google Reader closes and all your feeds will transition seamlessly. Just in case I keep a backup of my Google Reader feeds. You can do this through Google Takeout mentioned above, or through Google Reader itself. Going through Google Reader uses Takeout as well, so either method works.
For both Firefox and Chrome I logged in to my Google Reader account - a good idea if you have more than one account.
All my feeds and folders imported easily, nothing missing as far as I can tell.
Out of the two I like the Chrome implementation better than Firefox.
They've set up a Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly that's helpful.
Personally, I'm never a happy camper when one service/company wants my login for another service -especially when that other service includes many other things than just a reader.
It's one thing to log into a service and then allow access. It's another to give your credentials to another company.
DavidFB;
Good point. It certainly pays to be cautious in these types of exchanges.
This is one of the few I've allowed, only because I have a long history with Feedly.
Feedley is what I ended up going with. it easily imported my Google Reader Subscriptions, no problems connecting to their servers and they give you various options for sharing links from your feed straight to facebook, twitter and google +.
The deciding factor to go with feedly though was the different layouts. I just do not like the Magazine style layouts for my reader and with the different layout options on feedly I was able to get it looking a lot like my google reader layout with expandable listings in the side window and main window, also the single Index feature it really nice as well. So far I am pleased with feedly, almost feels like Google Reader with a skin and extra options
The Old Reader might be an option if they develop a mobile app, but I'm still in a queue of thousands waiting to import my feeds, so I don't even know when I'll be able to try it out properly, (although the queue is now down from 18,000 yesterday to 4,000), and it does seem a bit light on for options.
Netvibes doesn't even have "search" (within feeds), which pretty much rules it out, and it also lacks customization tools.
That's what has sold me on Feedly. I've found I actually prefer the Index page you mentioned to having to scroll through my Google Reader list of about 200 feeds. And being able to customize each individual feed is great. I really like being able to set News sites as Titles, General sites as Magazine, Mosaic or Cards, and Photography sites as Full Articles. I'd say within a day or two I'll have every individual feed customized exactly as I prefer it. The Mobile app seems fine too.
So, while I was as shocked as many to learn of Google Reader's imminent demise, for now at least, it seems like I've found something even better.
Fair enough at home, but I use lots of different computers at all of my different work locations, sjaves; none of which are mine. Using all of their different Operating Systems in different languages is tricky enough as it is.
Oh, and according to this article I just found from 3 days ago, FeedDemon is also shutting down on July 1st.
Michael 2007,
What kind of customizations in Netvibes are you looking for? It's extremely customizable, down to see your content similar to Google Reader. The customization tools aren't readily apparent, I've had to look up something that I wanted to do more than once over the years. That said, I consider Netvibes more of a start page than an RSS reader, especially if you have a lot of feeds.
I too like the various layouts in Feedly, and you can customize the colors to some extent to make reading text easier.
James Cuthbert,
I'll give that a look. I've been meaning to add a handful of feeds to Firefox, ones that I like to keep updated on.
Thanks for the suggestion. :)
Actually, I should clarify that - Feed Demon will work as a desktop RSS reader. It won't sync with Google Reader after July 1st and Nick Bradbury has said there won't be any further development for it.
Thanks very much for that, Rhiannon. I'll have another look at Netvibes' customization tools when I have time, but not having a "search" function is the real dealbreaker. But then maybe it does, and I just haven't been able to find it yet.
I use Feeddemon to actually add and read feeds. However, the best thing about GoogleReader was the ability to share and/or comment on feeds (in FeedDemon) and share to subscribers via GoogleReader share. GoogleReader deleter the share feature for new users some time ago, but the oldsters still got to share.
So, what will replace sharing feeds with others? (via an RSS)?
Del.icio.us dumped my previous library and accounts when they became delicious.com. Connotea is no more.
subscriptionsformpb,
A good many of RSS readers support sharing.
Feedly supports sharing using Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Evernote, Pinterest, LinkedIn and gmail. Directly or via Buffer, Pocket or Instapaper. The mini-feedly that lets you add comments.
I haven't tried all the services to see what type of sharing they support, especially the mobile ones since I don't have a smartphone.
Anyone else have suggestions?
oversky,
I don't know, you'd need to check each service.
FWIW, I've had no trouble renaming an XML file extension to OPML.
I would make a copy of the file before trying to change anything, just in case.
Sharing to those specific sites means someone has to have an account to see the article shared. Will any provide an open feed to the shared content, like GReader used to? I would post the shared feed to my websites and folks could subscribe from there or in their own reader to my shared reads.
Feeddemon allows sharing by email which means a Wordpress or Tumblr could provide the library location (post by email) and those have feeds of tagged posts.
philj;
I checked out feedshow before I wrote the article. I didn't include them because
a)I don't see any mention of what they support other than a web reader - I assume no mobile support since it isn't mentioned.
b)Their blog, their About page, and their Forums/Support page are non-existent.
c)I'm not crazy about the idea that your feeds can make you and feedshow money.
subscriptionsformpb;
It does sound like work.........
You might want to keep an eye out on the RSS reader that Digg is putting together:
http://www.digg.com/reader
I just imported my feeds to Thunderbird and so far it works well. I've also tried RSS Bandit which is ok if you want a separate program. Feedly is ok and I use it on my laptop. I'll see what the Digg reader will be like when it comes out.
I'm now a Feedly convert. Seamless migration from Reader, plus very flexible viewing options that can be set for individual feeds and folders. It has occasionally been unavailable (only displaying a blank page!) because of all of the additional users that they now have.
Folks should note that The Old Reader only receives feed updates about once/day, which is why I gave it a pass when checking out alternatives.
Include supported browser versions. At my workplace IE 8 can only be used. Some of these alternate readers do not support IE 8, only 9 or 10 (2 recent versions). Registered on some of these but none display correctly, so I had to cancel the account. Had used Bloglines in the past and it had a feature for user to retain certain feeds (like the Starred Items in Google Reader) but that feature no longer exists. Also, Bloglines uses Netvibes like a "back-end" - the two are very similar.
I understand your frustration. I run in to that issue in other places. :)
With browser versions changing so rapidly it's not practical for me to list them.
My suggestion is to check compatibility before signing up.
February 14, 2013, new sites added and 1 dead link removed. I added the number of series to the title as I did not realize how big this section had gotten.
All links should be working. If you find a site is not working, or is not as it should be, then please post here.
If you know of a site or series to be added to this listing, please post here or contact me through the site.
Thanks
Steve
March 27, 2013, 6 new series added, 1 dead link removed. All links here checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
Steve
Good history websites are hard to find so I'm glad to see these archives being made available. Some clips have no sound and others are too short to provide any meaningful historical context but there are still enough good segments to make this video library worthwhile.
Maybe it's a false positive, but Malwarebytes flagged the pothos.info site. See below warning:
Website blocked due to a suspicious top level domain (TLD)
You're welcome Peter, I'm happy you like it. I like it because you don't have to hunt around to find what you want, it's all right there, a click away.
I did see their other freebies and checked them out. I didn't download and test Red Button or Christmas Elf but the others seemed ok. I liked the Click and Relax.
Agreed MC. :)
Pothos is not the site I wrote up, however, I did visit all the listings offered on Pothos and ran the site through VirusTotal and it came up clean. That's one of the things I normally do before I write anything up - there's a lot of checking, testing, double checking, and research that goes into what I post, it's not quick or casual. For example, I tested every one of the 55 tools on Mara photos to make sure each worked and did what it said it did and to make sure there were no image quality issues that I could detect. With that said, I still miss things sometimes, and I'm grateful for the people who point out the errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's also quite a few programs and sites that don't make it all the way through testing for one reason or another.
I didn't download or test either of the programs that were listed on Pothos (Red Button and Christmas Elf).
I'm not seeing a big red download button on the Mara Photo site: https://mara.photos/
To use any of the tools, just click or tap the name of the tool and will open inside your browser. You can upload an image and use any of the tools to edit or create effects for your image.
The top of this article is a screenshot of what the page looks like.
VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning (best educational product of the decade award from UN and UNESCO) free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science:
http://videolectures.net/
As an alternative to youtube there's torch music ( http://music.torchbrowser.com/ ). It's a relatively new service that uses the youtube library, but it works better in that it doesn't have covers or spam stuff, and the adds don't break up the video flow. Totally free too.
I love You-tube it's full of varied videos lot's of different content but it seems google are trying to upset 90% of it's you tube users by forcing them to have a google plus pages , I can no longer comment on you tube videos until I accept the T&C's of having a google plus page which I don't even want , it's seems not enough people were using google plus so they decided to MAKE people use it ( not really the way to go )
IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
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Very useful post, thank you.
I've been trying both igHome and uStart. Here's a bit of feedback.
igHome gives me more or less what I had with igoogle.
Pros : it seems to load faster. It looks very similar to igoogle. I customized it real fast.
Cons : Mostly, Gmail use.
- You can't read (or delete) a mail in the reader. Clicking on a mail entry opens your Gmail page.
- The Gmail module is not as easy to read as it was on Igoogle. I.e. both titles and mail sender names are in the same bold black font. Whereas on igoogle, senders names were in bold and mail titles in normal (not bold), which helped you spot important messages in a much faster, more intuitive way.
Other minor cons :
- All modules have the same length & width. Which is a bit silly when all you want is a search bar.
For instance, I've installed Wikipedia and IMDB search bars, and they float in large empty white blocks.
- The main weather module is from Accuweather. Their forecast isn't worse than the competition. But their art is. It looks like what I could draw, and I can't draw. In short, it's not nice to look at. Which I resent, as it's on my homepage. Other weather widgets are availble. But from what I can tell, none provide an at-a-glance 5-day forecast with simple and pleasant pictograms, in either French or English, in C°.
uStart :
Pros : The look&feel is much more attractive.
RSS feeds come with thumbnail pics. Major headlines appear over a pale blue background, creating a hierarchy that I find more intuitive.
All widgets and RSS feeds are in my home country language. (Namely French.)
As opposed to igHome, length & width of blocks adapt to content.
There is a quick & easy function that imports your content from iGoogle and Netvibes.
It's a tiny gadget, but I like that my background image changes between day & night (clear sky / starry black sky). And that is based on my home country clock.
Cons :
- The help page is very basic. No FAQ, no user forum. The uStart Facebook page seems to be down. So, if I really want help, I'm in for long hours searching web forums.
- There is no RSS / widget search tool, or I can't find it. igHome, on the other hand, has a good one.
- All RSS feeds that I can find are from my home country. This doesn't work for me. I want news from international titles (e.g. The Guardian in the UK, Google News US, etc). Can't find them.
- To log into my Facebook account, uStart wants to access basically everything. Not just my account and friends list, which is already a lot, but events, pictures, etc. Much worse : when I read the list of what it wanted to access, I clicked "cancel"... and it displayed a page saying that I enabled uStart's access to my FB account. I checked my FB apps and apparently, no access was granted. But that is really unpleasant user experience.
Other minor cons :
- The analog clock design is very poor-looking. Difficult to read, small and clunky. I won't use it.
- There seems to be a lot less widgets than on igHome (or iGoogle). This may be because only French-language widgets seem to be available to me.
Overall :
Although I like the look&feel of uStart, I'll probably stick with igHome because it gives me access to many more feeds & widgets that I use on an everyday basis. I also feel more comfident in using a page that has a proper widget search tool and a good help section.
Hope this helps.
Going back to My Yahoo. Thanks Yahoo.
I read your article with great interest. Thank you.
As one comment mentioned that uStart was "way too British" I was keen to look at it as I find most things on offer on the net "way too American" and was delighted to think that something might be British!
I entered the web site and felt that it looked a bit 'odd' - perhaps the colours? Then I read the intro - the English used was apalling - reminded me of the language used in a phishing e-mail. I then searched for 'uStart reviews' on the net and was staggered by the number of reviews and warnings regarding spyware. I have reproduced one below. I, for one, will not risk using uStart -perhaps others would like to be aware of possible problems.
HOW CAN I GET INFECTED WITH uStart.org REDIRECT VIRUS?
The browser hijacker, which is responsible for redirections to uStart.org, can get inside the system in a bundle with freeware and shareware. Besides, various websites may also be involver to the distribution of this virus without any permission asked, so be aware about that. In order to avoid getting infected with this browser hijacker, you should always pay attention to the license agreement of the software and avoid commercial pop-up ads that typically appear when visiting different websites. As soon as this browser hijacker gets inside, it initiates various system's changes: it modifies the start page, default search engine, downloads toolbar and may initiate other unwanted activities. Please, do NOT ignore them and remove uStart.org redirect virus from the system.
Thank you for getting back on this and for the clarification. Having been 'infected' by spyware/malware on previous occasions, I guess I am extra cautious and it isn't easy for an amateur to know what is, and isn't, trustworthy out there, so your comments were very helpful.
I'll maybe have another look at uStart in view of your comments - at the moment I'm looking at igHome (I like it but find it somewhat unwieldy), Symbaloo and PortalPanel. The latter two give helpful information which I haven't yet found on igHome (but that could well be my own fault!).
Still feel very miffed by Google's decision - after all, out of all the iGoogle users out there, I've not heard of one who has written to say they are pleased that iGoogle is being discontinued, and I imagine that most, if not all, are as angry and upset as me. I think Google may well have shot themselves in the foot with their arrogant decision. Why should frustrated iGoogle users remain loyal to Google if Google completely ignores their wishes? After all, loyalty is a two way street.
Bad news...
I've decided to use Protopage as my new startpage after some test and evaluation on the existent alternatives but since tomorrow there is a blank box named "Adds" at the top of all loaded pages. Moreover, they ask $2.49/mo to remove it. I felt myself blackmailed! Another "migration" is now on course.
Back to square one...
Sad!
Yes, I have add blocker but this works for the browser only, this does not applies to the startpage. My add blocker eliminates adds from my GMail but has no effect on the homepage...
When I said "Add Blocker" I refer to an extension for Mozilla Firefox. Yes, it works nice on GMail but as I've stated before this addon does not prevent Protopage to include adds on my startpage. Guess you're talking about some specific Add Blocker softwares... No, I don't have anyone so that I would be glad if you suggest something in this sense.
So, I love Jolicloud. It's amazing, connects to most important social apps, as well as is a place for accessing all of your drops/cloud storage, and has an "App store" type thing which rules. I use it as my new tab page & my home page! It's fantastic for discovery & accessing awesomeness. It has a "my feed" area which is where you go as default, which if connected, shows you items from feedly, facebook, tumblr, and a bunch of other services. I can't remember quite if it does RSS, but I imagine you can accomplish that using Feedly anyways. It may not have widgets, or be a LOT like iGoogle, but I sure love it & use it.
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Rhiannon,
You mean that by using Feedly (Chrome extension) I do not need to download anything from Google Reader before it closes?
Thanks and regards.
Peter
I don't make heavy use of RSS feeds but have found Firefox Live Bookmarks fine. I sort same into their own folder and they can be viewed in the sidebar when I want to do a larger review.
Saves having yet another tool open all the time.
You need to migrate your feeds before it closes, wherever you choose to. Some of the tools allow you to import from GReader directly but it has to be done. Once its closed, your saved feeds will be toast.
Oh sorry - you need the Feeds Sidebar extension to view them in the sidebar ;-)
Personally, I'm never a happy camper when one service/company wants my login for another service -especially when that other service includes many other things than just a reader.
It's one thing to log into a service and then allow access. It's another to give your credentials to another company.
Feedley is what I ended up going with. it easily imported my Google Reader Subscriptions, no problems connecting to their servers and they give you various options for sharing links from your feed straight to facebook, twitter and google +.
The deciding factor to go with feedly though was the different layouts. I just do not like the Magazine style layouts for my reader and with the different layout options on feedly I was able to get it looking a lot like my google reader layout with expandable listings in the side window and main window, also the single Index feature it really nice as well. So far I am pleased with feedly, almost feels like Google Reader with a skin and extra options
Thanks Rhiannon!
Your answer made all things clear for me.
Regards
Peter
I've also gone with Feedly, mrnukem.
The Old Reader might be an option if they develop a mobile app, but I'm still in a queue of thousands waiting to import my feeds, so I don't even know when I'll be able to try it out properly, (although the queue is now down from 18,000 yesterday to 4,000), and it does seem a bit light on for options.
Netvibes doesn't even have "search" (within feeds), which pretty much rules it out, and it also lacks customization tools.
That's what has sold me on Feedly. I've found I actually prefer the Index page you mentioned to having to scroll through my Google Reader list of about 200 feeds. And being able to customize each individual feed is great. I really like being able to set News sites as Titles, General sites as Magazine, Mosaic or Cards, and Photography sites as Full Articles. I'd say within a day or two I'll have every individual feed customized exactly as I prefer it. The Mobile app seems fine too.
So, while I was as shocked as many to learn of Google Reader's imminent demise, for now at least, it seems like I've found something even better.
FeedDemon. Why mess around with more cloud based programs? FeedDemon just works great.
Fair enough at home, but I use lots of different computers at all of my different work locations, sjaves; none of which are mine. Using all of their different Operating Systems in different languages is tricky enough as it is.
Oh, and according to this article I just found from 3 days ago, FeedDemon is also shutting down on July 1st.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237591/FeedDemon_to_shut_down_ot...
FeedDemon shutdown confirmed here by its creator, Nick Bradbury, 4 days ago.
http://nick.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/the-end-of-feeddemon.html
consider Bamboo Feed reader if you use Firefox
it is a Firefox add on and seamlessly imported my Google reader feeds
Thanks very much for that, Rhiannon. I'll have another look at Netvibes' customization tools when I have time, but not having a "search" function is the real dealbreaker. But then maybe it does, and I just haven't been able to find it yet.
I use Feeddemon to actually add and read feeds. However, the best thing about GoogleReader was the ability to share and/or comment on feeds (in FeedDemon) and share to subscribers via GoogleReader share. GoogleReader deleter the share feature for new users some time ago, but the oldsters still got to share.
So, what will replace sharing feeds with others? (via an RSS)?
Del.icio.us dumped my previous library and accounts when they became delicious.com. Connotea is no more.
Which services can export OPML?
Bamboo Reader add-on for firefox works beautifully as a replacement for google reader
Sharing to those specific sites means someone has to have an account to see the article shared. Will any provide an open feed to the shared content, like GReader used to? I would post the shared feed to my websites and folks could subscribe from there or in their own reader to my shared reads.
Feeddemon allows sharing by email which means a Wordpress or Tumblr could provide the library location (post by email) and those have feeds of tagged posts.
Sounds like a hassle...
Another one worth checking out is http://www.feedshow.com
I just imported my feeds to Thunderbird and so far it works well. I've also tried RSS Bandit which is ok if you want a separate program. Feedly is ok and I use it on my laptop. I'll see what the Digg reader will be like when it comes out.
quiterss. portable. import feeds. sorting.
I'm now a Feedly convert. Seamless migration from Reader, plus very flexible viewing options that can be set for individual feeds and folders. It has occasionally been unavailable (only displaying a blank page!) because of all of the additional users that they now have.
Folks should note that The Old Reader only receives feed updates about once/day, which is why I gave it a pass when checking out alternatives.
Include supported browser versions. At my workplace IE 8 can only be used. Some of these alternate readers do not support IE 8, only 9 or 10 (2 recent versions). Registered on some of these but none display correctly, so I had to cancel the account. Had used Bloglines in the past and it had a feature for user to retain certain feeds (like the Starred Items in Google Reader) but that feature no longer exists. Also, Bloglines uses Netvibes like a "back-end" - the two are very similar.
Good history websites are hard to find so I'm glad to see these archives being made available. Some clips have no sound and others are too short to provide any meaningful historical context but there are still enough good segments to make this video library worthwhile.
That's quite the jackpot you found Rhiannon!
Kind of reminds me of a StumbleUpon thing.
Have you noticed the link below to http://pothos.info/ ?
Full of freebies that could be helpful to some.
Thanks Rhiannon!
You are a genius! This tool is going to be the star of my box of online tools!
Best Regards
Peter
Maybe it's a false positive, but Malwarebytes flagged the pothos.info site. See below warning:
Website blocked due to a suspicious top level domain (TLD)
Very easy to use. Very effective
Of all the confusing commercial security software folks insist on paying for Malwarebytes tops the list. It's riddled with false positives and even if users read the documentation 95% of them will not be able to understand how these results are generated. This makes it IMO totally useless as a security tool. Forticlient Free 6.0 will give you better and more accurate results plus it provides custom settings for your web filters.
https://www.forticlient.com/downloads
Otherwise just use reputable online scanners. MC - Site Manager.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/b96d57c87841d5d7c0e302086fc7575f6c627...
https://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/568e8216-0741-43df-996b-9592bf37cefc
https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/mara.photos/
Thanks for the links. I was referring to pothos.info referenced by another member; not the Mara site.
Sorry - my mistake. Same analysis result however. MC - Site Manager.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/98fe92fc120e5df74c1069d51cea952935d55...
https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/pothos.info/
https://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/6bb3082f-b5ca-46d7-b71a-c7fa68fcdd17
I'm glad you found it useful. :)
You're welcome Peter, I'm happy you like it. I like it because you don't have to hunt around to find what you want, it's all right there, a click away.
I did see their other freebies and checked them out. I didn't download and test Red Button or Christmas Elf but the others seemed ok. I liked the Click and Relax.
Agreed MC. :)
Pothos is not the site I wrote up, however, I did visit all the listings offered on Pothos and ran the site through VirusTotal and it came up clean. That's one of the things I normally do before I write anything up - there's a lot of checking, testing, double checking, and research that goes into what I post, it's not quick or casual. For example, I tested every one of the 55 tools on Mara photos to make sure each worked and did what it said it did and to make sure there were no image quality issues that I could detect. With that said, I still miss things sometimes, and I'm grateful for the people who point out the errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's also quite a few programs and sites that don't make it all the way through testing for one reason or another.
I didn't download or test either of the programs that were listed on Pothos (Red Button and Christmas Elf).
Love it! I had too much fun with the click and relax and the photo editor. Thanks!
You say there isn't need to download software, but there is a big download button??? Don't we need to download the suite to use it?
I'm not seeing a big red download button on the Mara Photo site:
https://mara.photos/
To use any of the tools, just click or tap the name of the tool and will open inside your browser. You can upload an image and use any of the tools to edit or create effects for your image.
The top of this article is a screenshot of what the page looks like.
I'm glad you like it. :)
Thanks Rhiannon ! Just in time for Halloween
You're very welcome. :)
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thanks
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IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
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