New Push to Kindle Android app
We’ve launched a new version of our Push to Kindle Android app on the Google Play store. Push to Kindle converts web articles into e-books, and delivers them to your Kindle account for a better reading experience.
Push to Kindle Android app compatibility update
We’ve recently had reports that our Push to Kindle Android app has suddenly stopped working on some older Android devices. We provide a workaround for older devices and will be changing the minimum Android version in future versions of the app.
Readability – article extraction and HTML parsing with PHP
Readability is a Javascript library for detecting and extracting article content in web pages. We discuss some of the changes we’ve made to the PHP port, as well as how we use it in our applications.
Filtering out newsletter signup forms embedded in web articles
Blocking out ads drastically improves the reading experience, but even more can be done. In this post we’ll look at using a filter list to remove newsletter signup forms and another annoyances.
Twitter RSS
Twitter no longer provides RSS feeds, but there are workarounds that allow you to get Twitter RSS feeds without having to use Twitter itself. We’ll look at a few options in this post.
Google News RSS feeds
It’s possible to get a variety of RSS feeds from Google News, and these all come from Google itself, so they don’t have to be generated with third-party tools like our Feed Creator.
Push to Kindle in Recomendo and Morning Brew
We’re very happy to have been recommended in two very popular newsletters recently: Recomendo and Morning Brew.
How to use proxy servers with Feed Creator and Full-Text RSS
In this post we’ll look at how to configure the self-hosted versions of our Feed Creator and Full-Text RSS software to use proxy servers.
Alan Jacobs: How to read stuff posted online
Distuingished Professor of Humanities Alan Jacobs recently wrote a blog post about the difficulties of reading online. His post starts: “Very few sites on the internet are meant to facilitate reading — most are, in fact, designed to inhibit reading.”
Using proxy servers for content retrieval
We’ve added proxy support to Feed Control in our latest update. This post will explain what it does, why you might need it, and how you can enable it.