RSS Feeds are awesome
The other day, my dad was showing me some “cool new iPhone App”, which basically just accumulates news from various news sites and shows them in one app, so you don’t have to use a different app for each website. I was actually quite dumbstruck by this. Do people seriously not know how to use RSS Feeds? I mean I personally couldn’t live without them. Even though I only subscribe to two dozens of sites, I hate to have to remember to check them for new content manually. In fact in the past I’ve actually ditched looking at sites because they had no RSS feed or a horribly shortened feed (especially if you combine that with ads).
Pretty much every browser nowadays can use RSS Feeds natively, and if you use a dedicated feed reader (Google Reader is nice), you will never go back. Personally I love using Reeder both on the iPhone and on my Mac. It syncs via Google Reader (so you can actually read your stuff from another computer if necessary) and is visually very nice as well.