If you’re anything like me then keeping up with the latest technology news (or any news for that matter) is very important part of your life. Then a good RSS feed reader is very important, when I’m on my mobile devices Google Reader does the job just fine. But when on my laptop I don’t really want to be using the Google Reader web interface, as let’s face it, it’s pretty awful.
So I use Liferea. It’s a very simple and light application that works extremely well in Ubuntu. Liferea comes with a handful of example feeds to get you started, but you can easily add a feed by clicking on the “Add Subscription” button then pasting the URL of a RSS feed. That’s it, job done!
Here is the URL for the RefuGeeks RSS feed to get you started - http://feeds.feedburner.com/refugeeksfeed. Once you’ve loaded a feed you can easily open the original article be selecting Item >Launch In Browser from the global menu.
If you want to install Liferea in Ubuntu all you have to do is run the following three commands in a terminal window:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:liferea/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install liferea
Are you using a different RSS reader? Why not tell is which you think is best in the comments section below…
