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Slack is my new RSS reader

I've finally found a solution to the vacuum created when my favorite RSS reader got the axe (RIP Google Reader). I loved being able to quickly browse through the headlines of my favorite blogs and news sites. For the past couple of years I've been depending mainly on Twitter our Medium notifications when someone posts something new but unless I'm actively looking I'll miss most things. Recently I discovered that Slack has an integration that allows you to subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed URL and receive updates in a Slack channel.

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Tutorials & How-Tos

Gmail Notifier for Mac OSX

| Gmail Notifier for Mac OS X from Greg Miller of googleblog.blogspot.com. | Here is a little tool for you Mac based Gmail users.

The app is small and nonintrusive, but hopefully still has all the features a Mac user would want. With it you can:

| - view messages without opening a browser | - open Gmail in your browser without forcing you to log in again | - make Gmail your default email program | - even more...

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