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Official Google Reader Android App

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Official Google Reader app for Android is now available in the Android Market. The Android supports all the basic features that you would expect it to have like count of unread items, sharing, liking, starring etc. In addition to these, the app also has options to use multiple accounts, setting synchronization preferences, full subscriptions features and even searching the subscriptions feature.

Google Reader Android Screenshot

And of course, Google as always, included few surprise features additional features along with the app  like volume-key navigation, easy unsubscribe, rename subscriptions by long-pressing on a folder or subscription etc. Just enable the Volume-key navigation in the settings and you can quickly go through the feeds using volume key to go to next and previous items (similar to “j” and “k” shortcuts in the desktop version).

Scan the following QR code to go the to the app link in the Android Market and install it.

Google Reader Android App QR Code

[Via] Google Reader blog

[How-To] Exporting Your RSS Reader[Google Reader & Other] Feed Subscriptions As OPML File

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This isn’t our conventional ‘How-To’ article, but still some readers who are just beginners of RSS feed readers/ aggregators may want to know these little things about importing/ exporting feeds in OPML format.

OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language.This is now being used for exchanging list of web feeds between various web feed aggregators.In this small tutorial, we are going to explain how exactly this importing and exporting via OPML is done.

Importing / exporting feeds in Google Reader:

Login to your Google reader account.Click on “Reader settings” on the top right corner of your window.

reader settings

Navigate to “Import/Export” tab under settings

export reader subscriptions OPML file

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Now here you can find options to export your subscriptions as an OPML file or import your existing subscriptions OPML file.Isn’t it simple ??

FeedDemon & RSS Bandit :

FeedDemon is the popular RSS feed aggregator for desktops which supports synchronization with Google Reader.

Importing and exporting feed subscriptions as OPML files is a lot easier in these readers.You can directly access “Import Feeds/ Export Feeds” options under “File” menu.

feeddemon feed import export OPML file

Similarly in Rss Bandit, you can Import Feed or Export feeds from the “File” menu,or suing shortcuts Ctrl + I or Ctrl + E.
Rss Bandit feeds import export

Is your operating system is Windows 7/Windows Vista? If so, you can use “Feed Headlines” gadget show feeds from your feed subscriptions.Stay tuned to this blog to know how to do it.

Using Google Reader Play For Visual Web Browsing

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For all those lovers of Google’s online RSS feed reader ‘Google reader’, here’s an interesting new feature being added to reader.The new feature is being called ‘Reader Play’.

Google has announced in a blog post earlier announced the launch of ‘Google Reader Play’.Reader play offers you new way to see feeds in your browser, like a slideshow, the feed items will scroll one by one horizontally (you can use side arrows to move one by one or you can also start a slideshow).

By default, Reader play will show feed items that interests you (even if you haven’t subscribed to them), you can always tell the reader about the items you like just by clicking the like button (rectangle one) below your feed items.

However, if you only want to read the visual display of feeds from your subscriptions, just go your reader page, scroll down to the subscriptions folder, click on the ‘Top down’ menu as shown below:reader_folder_top_down

Select the last option “View in Reader Play” to start reading that particular subscriptions folder in Reader Play.

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And the beautiful visual reading experience will start (as in the below picture ):

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You always click on the 3 symbols below each item,

‘Star’ to mark items for later

‘Like’ items to tell the reader about what you like

‘Share’ to share the items with your followers

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Tip : Read How to use Google reader to track changes in any website that doesn’t offer feeds.

Reader New Feature: Track Changes In A ‘Website Not Offering Feeds’ Using Google Reader

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The Problem:

Your favourite website doesn’t offer updates via feeds.So you can’t follow the latest changes in the site.

The Solution:

1.There is popular Page2RSS, that creates RSS feeds for any webpage whenever there’s an update to the page.

page2RSS screenshot

2.Now Google Reader has also implemented very similar feature that let’s you keep track of the changes in any website as RSS feeds in the reader.

How To Do This?

Open Google Reader and click “Add Subscription” just enter the URL of the website (or webpage) that you want to keep track.Google Reader will automatically generate the feed for it (if it can’t detect any RSS feed).

adding subscription in Google reader

Creating feed for feedless website in Google reader

That’s it, you can now see the changes/ updates of that website in your Google reader feed items.

For some sample feeds generated through this, read this post from Google reader blog.