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The Iconfactory, the maker of a popular third-party Twitter client, Twitterrific, that was among those killed off by Twitter under Elon Musk’s management, is hoping to recover from its losses with a new app that combines your social media, news feeds and alerts into one experience. The app, dubbed “Project Tapestry” as it launches on Kickstarter, will support Twitter/X alternatives like Bluesky, Mastodon and Tumblr, and possibly Instagram Threads when its developer API becomes available. However, it won’t support X…

When you want to check out your favorite news sites or other online information sources, you can take the time to go directly to each site, clog your email with newsletters and announcements, check the updates on your favorite social media app(s) — or you can use an RSS feed reader. RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich…

Image Source : FILE YouTube content creators now able to upload podcast episodes via RSS feed YouTube, a Google-owned video-sharing platform now enables the audio-first podcast creators to upload episodes via RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed instead of making them manually create a video. The RSS is a web feed which enables the users and applications to get an…

Till the turn of the last century, most scholars of Indian politics did not seriously entertain the idea of Right-wing politics and ideology becoming dominant in India. Yet, that is what happened and the Right-wing takeover of Indian politics looks almost complete. Now, scholars of all shades have taken to analysing the hows and whys of this. Arkotong Longkumer’s The Greater India Experiment: Hindutva and the Northeast can be seen as a part of this scholarly effort to understand the phenomenon. Catholic…

With so much new content on the web added daily, it can be tough to keep up with what’s happening online. People try several different ways, including visiting specific websites every day, doing Google searches, or relying on social media to keep them informed. One solution that sometimes gets overlooked is an old-school one: The RSS feed. What is an RSS feed? It’s a technology that has influenced many modern internet tools you’re familiar with, and its streamlined, algorithm-free format could make it your next great…

Image: Substack Substack’s the latest company trying to resurrect Google Reader from the dead — well, in spirit at least. Nearly a decade after Google’s popular RSS feed aggregator shut down, Substack has launched a desktop RSS client alternative: Substack Reader for the web. Now, users can organize all of their Substack subscriptions in one webpage that they can view from their laptop or PC. The app also integrates with third-party RSS feeds so users can check out posts from other publications,…

On Eid-ul-Fitr day in 1897, a man named Lekh Ram was fatally stabbed in his home in a narrow lane in the old walled city of Lahore in Punjab. He was a local leader of a Hindu reformist sect called the Arya Samaj. At the time of his stabbing, he had been chanting Sanskrit mantras in the company of a Muslim man he brought home that day for conducting a ceremony called shuddhi meaning “purification” to convert him to Hinduism – until the subject being converted suddenly drew a knife and stuck it in his stomach. “When Lekh…

Source: iMoreWhat you need to know We're highlighting three great apps that we think people should check out this weekend. Lire is a great RSS reader for iPhone and iPad, while Classifier is an app to help people track their collections. Speech Central is for people who just prefer to listen to text rather than read it. With an App Store overflowing with choices it can be easy to miss some great apps simply because they don't appear on your radar. Here, I'll be highlighting three apps that you should consider taking for…

Source: Golden Hill Software If you're someone who needs to keep tabs on the latest internet happenings, you're probably already familiar with RSS. Unread is a great way to follow and read RSS feeds on iPhone and iPad — and with Unread 3, it's better than ever thanks to the integration of an all-new sync service. That sync service is one built specifically for Unread 3, dubbed Unread Cloud. It's available for no additional free and all you need to do is create an account by using Sign in with Apple. Once done, you just…

KANNUR: Inside India’s Bloodiest Revenge Politics By Ullekh NP Viking Penguin 2018, 223pp., Rs 499 Reviewed by Shashi Tharoor Kannur (or, as the Brits preferred to call it, Cannanore) is a lovely little town in north Kerala, located in a picturesque seaside setting near some spectacular beaches that ought to have made it a tourist paradise. It is better known, instead, as a town drenched in blood from repeated acts of political violence. Between 1991 and 2016, according to official crime statistics, 45…