January 12, 2011
I just did a screen cast for this article. Please listen and provide your valuable comments. That would help me a lot and encourage me to do more screen casts in the future. I know this is very naïve, so you are welcome to point and laugh too
, but hi this is my first time. I’ll improve it in the future. Okay?
NewsSquares is a Google Chrome web app that allows you to read RSS feeds subscriptions in a stylish interface.
You can read and update all your subscribed sources in Google Reader within a single window.
The main window of this app instantly displays your subscribed feeds from Google Reader. You need to log into your Google Account for this application to work.
To read a news item simply click on it to enlarge the feed window. You can close the window anytime to go back to the main interface.
You can note that a number of small boxes at the bottom of the page has popped up. These are the latest feeds of in this item.
You can also mark your feed as read and shrink/enlarge squares within the main window and subscribe or unsubscribe feeds right from here. All the changes that you make here will be synced with your Google reader account.
you can also preview the latest updates using the small arrows present at the bottom right corner of each items square.
options window lets you to set connection type, refresh rate etc., it also has option of what to display what to display from your google reader and how to display it.
there are two themes available. A dark blue one and a white one. i personally prefer the blue one.
If you want you can also set news squares as your home page by using the URL provided here.
I really love news squares. I have been using it for a week now and I really enjoy it. I have hundreds of subscription and It really helps me to sort them thru.
I do have a few suggestions and a warning too. News squares adds a extra folder in Google reader without providing proper information. I don’t know what other changes it makes to my Google account.
More theme for reading and Less memory consumption would be preferable.
Other than these minor issues, I am going to use news squares as my primary feed reader for the foreseeable future.
Check this out and let me know what you think.
Webpage: NewsSquares @ Chrome Extensions
