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Five More Apps to replace Google Reader: CommaFeed

This gallery is also available as an article in the TechRepublic Five Apps Blog.

CommaFeed has a very basic, simple web interface. Importing feeds from Google Reader is automated.

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CommaFeed also looks pretty good in iPad Safari. The top half of the page title is cut off due to their notice that they are "working on performance issues".

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Five More Apps to replace Google Reader: Skimr

Skimr also has a clean interface, however it does not display unread counts. Read items are shown by graying out the text. Imports are accomplished through an OPML file.

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Individual feed items appear as bubbles that link to the full page on the source web site. Images can be turned on and off via the button at the top.

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Five More Apps to replace Google Reader: News360

News360 imports your feeds from Google Reader and other sources but in a non-traditional manner. Instead of directly using RSS, it has its own feeds that it matches with your RSS imports and offers those as options.

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News360's interface is a little more dressed up than CommaFeed, Skimr, and Bloglines.

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On the mobile app (iPad shown here), News360 shows tiles for each article. It attempts to learn your preferences and shows you what it thinks are your most important articles first.

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Five More Apps to replace Google Reader: Pulse

Pulse imports your feed listing directly from Google Reader and displays feed items in a tiled layout in the web browser. Tile layout is adjustable using the 3 settings at the top right of the screen.

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The tablet app (iPad shown here) for Pulse shows each feed in a folder as a line with each item as a tile in that line.

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Five More Apps to replace Google Reader: Bloglines

Bloglines is another simple, clean feed reader that imports from OPML files.

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Bloglines looks basically the same on the iPad as it does on the desktop.

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