Reading RSS Feeds on Windows 8

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br/><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegw_iEym9Z1krwcGR6IdlSWHCuH6p9davsuKX8OqINFCpj0Uwd-81vDNOTi3HHvue3SyaozIUJgCtWGrtSEH0HsqEZCLnMZ_4-avrMghhnw8MvRl7-IDwUQmr_-y73j4lAOUkd5VL980/s1600/simple-48244_640.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegw_iEym9Z1krwcGR6IdlSWHCuH6p9davsuKX8OqINFCpj0Uwd-81vDNOTi3HHvue3SyaozIUJgCtWGrtSEH0HsqEZCLnMZ_4-avrMghhnw8MvRl7-IDwUQmr_-y73j4lAOUkd5VL980/s1600/simple-48244_640.png" width="200" /></a></div><br/>In my on-going efforts to explore alternatives to Google Reader and familiarize myself with Windows 8 applications I recently tried using Bing News on my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ATANVLG/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00ATANVLG&linkCode=as2&tag=freetechforte-20">Lenovo Yoga 13</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=freetechforte-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00ATANVLG" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="0" />. This week <a href="http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2013/04/15/appex.aspx" target="_blank">the app was updated</a> and it now allows me to add any RSS feed whether it's featured by Bing or not. Once you've added a feed by entering the URL for the feed, you can put it into a category in the app. It's important to note that you have to enter the feed URL not the site URL in order to add a subscription (it's kind of like the early days of Google Reader and I hope that Microsoft changes that in the future). <br/><br/>What I like about the Bing News app is the clean and full layout of articles as I browse through them. What I don't like is that in order to share a story or bookmark a story, I have to open the "charms" menu then select share then select the app through which I want to share the story. It's not difficult, but it adds one more step than I typically use in Feedly or Flipboard. Overall, it's not a bad app but I'm still more inclined to use <a href="http://feedly.com/" target="_blank">Feedly's Chrome app</a> when I want to browse through my RSS feeds on my Windows 8 computer. <br/><br/><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br/>Come learn with me at the <a href="http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/04/come-relax-and-learn-with-me-this-summer.html/"">Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp.</a> <br/><br/><i>This post originally appeared on <a href="http://freetech4teachers.com/">Free Technology for Teachers</a><br/></i>.</div><div class="feedflare"><br/><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=yIl2AUoC8zA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=7Q72WNTAKBA"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=qj6IDK7rITs"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?i=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:V_sGLiPBpWU"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:I9og5sOYxJI"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=I9og5sOYxJI"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?a=mmJ5Zkd393E:P1CR4VAIJU0:bcOpcFrp8Mo"><img border="0" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/freetech4teachers/cGEY?d=bcOpcFrp8Mo"></img></a><br/></div><img height="1" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~4/mmJ5Zkd393E" width="1"/><br/><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freetech4teachers/cGEY/~3/mmJ5Zkd393E/reading-rss-feeds-on-windows-8.html" rel="nofollow">Free Technology for Teachers</a>

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