Last Call: Google Reader Dies Monday, Here Are The Best Alternatives
Google feels RSS is no longer as important as it used to considering how the average internet user receives his fix of interesting links and news via social networks – most of the time not through their social network, though.
But for millions of professionals that need that constant stream of information from manually selected sources, RSS is a big deal. Journalists, bloggers, programmers, researchers, students, tech savvy people, among others, fall into this group. It's a niche product, but still a big niche. Here are what we consider the best drop-in replacements for Google Reader today.
Tech Tip of the Week: Using IFTTT, Plus a Dozen Recipes to Get You Started
IFTTT (If This Then That) lets you automate tasks between popular web services such as Dropbox, Twitter, Evernote, Facebook, Instapaper, and many others. IFTTT works by telling it what task you want carried out, what will trigger this task, and it will put it into action for you.
A common example would be to have your Instagram pictures automatically backed up on your Dropbox or Box account. Certainly useful, but there's also more specific things you can do with it. For example, say I want to keep up with how a certain country is doing in the London 2012 Olympics.