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Create Reading Glasses With Your Fingers In A Pinch

If you’re caught without your reading glasses, or you encounter some terrifically fine print somewhere, you have two options: curse your abnormal retina design or pinch your fingers together. The latter is like adjusting the f-stop on your eyeballs.

28 March 2013

Communicate

Flipboard Now Lets You Make Custom Magazines

iOS: Popular magazine-style reading app Flipboard has updated with a few new features. It now includes the ability to make your own magazines, and it packs a bookmarklet so you can add articles you find on the web to your own magazine.

27 March 2013

Organise

Use Outlook As A Google Reader Replacement

Even if you already use Outlook, you might not know that you’re also using a decent Google Reader replacement. Outlook can import and process a Google Reader feed export. It handles your unread items like a different kind of message.

7 March 2013

Productivity

Readr For iOS Makes It Easy To Send Articles To Read-It-Later Services

iOS jailbroken): If you’re an avid user of Pocket, Readability or Instapaper, you’ve probably lamented the lack of convenient ways to send articles to those services. Readr is a jailbreak tweak that makes it simple.

26 February 2013

Productivity

Text Mode Makes Web Pages Less Distracting

Chrome: Apps like Readability turn web pages into a format that focuses on making the text easy to read by stripping away distractions. Text Mode offers a different kind of distraction-free web browsing that retains the structure of the web page.

19 February 2013

Organise

Leaf Is A Minimalist Google Reader For Mac

Mac: Leaf is a news reader that syncs with Google Reader. It makes browsing and reading your feeds easy while keeping the amount of space the app takes up to a minimum.

18 February 2013

Entertainment

Project Guttenberg Adds Dropbox Support

Project Guttenberg is a great place to acquire free public domain ebooks. The project recently made accessing its catalogue of 42,000 free ebooks much easier by adding Dropbox integration.

14 February 2013

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Ask LH: How Do I Get Through All The Unread Items In Google Reader?

Dear Lifehacker, I read a lot of blogs. We’re talking 1000+ unread items. It seems like I can never get through everything I want to read, and I just have bookmarks loading up in my toolbar that never get read. How can I actually get through all this stuff?

7 February 2013

Entertainment

Why Tablets Trump Books For Older Eyes

The elderly can be extremely resistant when it comes to adopting new technology, especially if it supplants something as tried-and-trusted as a book. Subsequently, e-readers and tablets are products to be feared and distrusted; just like broadband internet, car accelerator pedals and kids loitering on lawns (er, we might be generalising a tad here.)

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Bookish Combines Reviews And Themes To Recommend Books

Finding a new book to read can be tough. While some booksellers have good recommendation services, it’s not always enough. Bookish is a site that allows you to find better recommendations, as well as curated lists and critic reviews all in one place.

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