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Comment on Degooglifying (Part II): Feed Reader by someguy

someguy — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 11:22:54 +0000

Found this post when searching for a web rss reader installable on linux, also while “degooglefying” myself. Helped a lot. Thank you very much!

Comment on SOLUTION: Extract .exe archive with 7z in Ubunu 9.04, fix “Unsupported Method” error by Dan

Dan — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:52:58 +0000

Thank you! That works

Comment on Degooglifying (Part II): Feed Reader by Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:44:31 +0000

Oh, offline sync?! I knew there was an mobile application, but I had no idea it had offline support. I will have to keep an eye out for that if/when I go Android… very cool!

Comment on Degooglifying (Part II): Feed Reader by maiki

maiki — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:41:41 +0000

There is a pretty nifty TT-RSS Android app as well. I found it in the F-Droid repo: http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.ttrssreader

It will do offline syncing with the web server, and that includes caching images. It is pretty slick. ^_^

Comment on Degooglifying (Part I): Email by Degooglifying (Part II): Feed Reader | Unity Behind Diversity | Blaise Alleyne

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:39:56 +0000

[...] to email, replacing Google Reader as my feed reader was relatively easy, though I’ve chosen to use the [...]

Comment on GSoC 2009 Wrap Up: Creative Commons Drupal Module by Degooglifying (Part I): Email | Unity Behind Diversity | Blaise Alleyne

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:59 +0000

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Comment on The Problem With A Music Tax by The Songwriters Association of Canada Wants To Embrace File Sharing, But Does It Have the Right Approach? | Unity Behind Diversity | Blaise Alleyne

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:08:06 +0000

[...] embraced, that digital locks and lawsuits were not a way forward, etc. But it was a non-voluntary, “you’re a criminal” tax that could open the floodgates for other industries to demand similar [...]

Comment on Analyzing the Songwriters Association of Canada’s proposal to legalize file sharing by The Songwriters Association of Canada Wants To Embrace File Sharing, But Does It Have the Right Approach? | Unity Behind Diversity | Blaise Alleyne

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:52:32 +0000

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Comment on Degooglifying (Part I): Email by Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:47:39 +0000

Google Apps email for your own domain? That’d be a step up from straight Gmail since you’ve already got a portable email address, makes sense.

I’ve used DuckDuckGo a little bit. I’m more interested in these new distributed search engines, like Seeks and YaCy, which are not only non-tracking but also not proprietary. But, unlike DuckDuckGo, I haven’t found them (well, I’ve only tried YaCy) super usable yet in terms of stability or results.

Comment on Degooglifying (Part I): Email by Greg V.

Greg V. — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:26:29 +0000

I’ve kind of gone the other direction and am replacing all other Google stuff except my hosted Google Apps email (which I back up with offlineimap & Thunderbird) and calendars. The nice thing about the Google Apps setup is I can turn off all the Google apps I don’t want my ‘users’ to access with their non-gmail Google accounts, so there’s no tracking across services.

Been testing DuckDuckGo for non-tracking search and am liking it so far.