Track Page Changes Using Google Reader

Google Reader allows tracking of page changes. Simply add a URL to Google Reader and it automatically detects a feed or, if the site doesn’t have one, Reader will auto-create.
Application site: https://reader.google.com/
Prerequisite: Google account
Process time: 1 minute.
Steps:
Step- 1. Go to application site.
Step- 2. Log in your Google account.
Step- 3. Go to “Google Reader”.
Step- 4. Click [...]

15 Apps That Use Google Gears

15 applications (and counting) that use Google Gears. By Raju Vegesna via Zoho Creator.

Zoho Mail
Zoho Writer
Zoho Mobile
WordPress
Remember the Milk
PassPack
MySpace
Google Reader
Google Docs
Buxfer
Autodesk’s Draw
MindMeister
Picasa Web Albums Mobile
Paymo
Gmail

Google Reader gets even faster with new features

These are the new updates made by Google Reader:

New Look and Feel
Collapsible Navigation
Friends Sharing Section
Hide Unread Counts
New Feed Bundles

Read full story here.

Happy Thanksgiving!

A big and warm thank you to all the readers and friends and members of TechBays! 
And thanks to the following apps:

WordPress. The home of TechBays. 
Ning, for allowing us to create a community for TechBays readers. 
Gmail, for innovating and integrating continuously, now with video chat. 
Facebook, for finding and proposing long lost friends. 
Zoho, for competing well and [...]

The New Look of iGoogle with Canvas View

This is the new face of iGoogle. 

And the Canvas view of Google Reader. A full list of what’s canvas-available is here. 

Blogger adds Following feature

In a step to make Google’s services more social, Google Blogger now has a Following feature that allows you to show who are following your blog as well as the blogs you are following. It’s like subscribing to a blog with a feature that can explicitly display you as a follower of the blog you [...]

A note on a note on a note, Google Reader style

Google Reader adds a new feature that allows you to add a note when sharing news items to friends and again allows you to add another note, an editorial one for example, by editing the shared item itself.
The Note function reminds me of Google Notebook, which I used initially with interest but not anymore with [...]

From Disqus to Google Reader to Friendfeed and vice versa

Your data now flow from a comment system to an RSS reader to a multi-feed-type aggregator; Or from an RSS reader to a comment system to a multi-feed-type aggregator; Or the reverse, or whichever way you like. Let’s welcome ourselves to the growing integration of online conversation systems.
GReader, a Firefox extension, now allows posting of [...]

Who generates the most news items per day?

This is based on the Subscription trends function of Google Reader and the list of my subscription for the last 30 days. Mashable and Valleywag issues about 22.8 posts per day. Techcrunch about 13.9. Robert Scoble’s Shared Reader about 6.2, while his Scobleizer about 2.1. Dave Winer about 2.6. Fred Wilson about 2.3. Rex Hammock [...]

Activate Google Reader Offline

I tested Google Reader Offline function and it works well. You are required to install Google Gears to make the offline function work. It is an add-on to your browser. In my case, I initially used Firefox but when I tried to run the Google Gears executable file, my browser issues non-compatibility message. My current [...]