A post about LibreRead, a simple, light-weight and easy to install e-book reader.
Nextcloud
A while ago I wrote about Owncloud, which started out as a self-hosted alternative to Dropbox, but which by now has grown to be a whole suite of apps. In the meantime, things happened. Not necessarily the kinds of things that most consumers might be interested in, but in the end it resulted in the original Owncloud…
FreshRSS – reigniting the RSS love
It’s been a while since I wrote about a self-hosted RSS reader. Why? Mainly because it’s fallen out of use even with many of the more seasoned consumers out there. The reasons are manifold, not least because nowadays many publishers have opted to not push full articles but rather teasing them, forcing you to click…
Wallabag – Read stuff later
Sometimes the number of interesting texts to read can be overwhelming. To counter this problem, a whole little niche cropped up a few years back, the “read it later” niche. Most famous products to emerge from that niche are services like Instapaper, the eponimously named Read it later, which was later renamed to Pocket. For everyone who doesn’t want…
Tiny Tiny RSS
Hot on the heels of my review of Selfoss, the basic but pretty RSS reader, comes my review of Tiny Tiny RSS, yet another self-hosted alternative to soon to be dead Google Reader. In a nutshell tinyRSS is a free, easily installed feedreader. It’s strengths aren’t its looks but it’s extensible design and power-user features.…
Selfoss
Google yesterday announced that their feedreader Google Reader is going to be sunset in July (sunset being the euphemism for shutting down – I don’t know what PR department dreamt that up). Recent developments like their focus on their social network Google+ and the subsequent removal of popular Reader features somehow pointed in the direction of an…
Fever Feedreader
In a Nutshell Fever is a self-hosted feed reader with a unique approach. It’s easy to install and doesn’t need much maintenance. It’s not free but relatively inexpensive. Installation: [rating=5] Price: [rating=4] What it’s all about It’s 2012 and the death of RSS has been claimed time and time again, but still, it’s everywhere. In…