The latest update was done on October 27 and has the following enhancements:

1. Click to toggle – The star, share, like, notify and cache attributes found on the “Feed and Article lists”, can be toggled on and off. This can be done by clicking on the individual icons under the items’ titles. Aside from directly clicking on individual items, you can also choose to do long-pressing an item and using the context menu for it.

2. Like/unlike support: The new Greed now supports the “like this” feature that is found on the web-based version of Google Reader. Whenever you’ve marked an article a little square smiley icon indicates is shown on the item.

3. Layout Changes: The major changes in the layout are under the hood which improves and lowers memory consumption. Also, the fonts are now compatible on WVGA resolutions.

4. Zoom Controls: The article viewer can now be zoomed via zoom controls.

5. Donut-specific Force-close issue: There was a previous issues on the Greed where it closes feed list of folder list, it is now fixed on this release.

Greed previously is very good, and now its even better. You can get greed via fognl.

Image from fognl.

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Greed is Good, especially 1.1.11

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Google Reader (or any other web feed reader) -
GR is an excellent tool to help process the everyday information that shows up on most of your favorite sites. This can be used to find both the latest nuddy magazine photos and the greatest updates on the Apple/i phone information saga. Convenient? I think so.

PageOnce –
PageOnce has been a big help for me and now that it’s out of strict beta (closed to some), it’s even better. I use it to pull in bank account balances, bill due dates and the latest in my Facebook statuses. You can use it to do the same and keep your life organized on just a few pages.

Mint.com –
Mint has been a lifesaver or me (no pun intended) when it comes to keeping track of my finances. I am able to pull in all my financial services — stock portfolios (like I trade, hah), bank accounts (already know they’re near zero) and credit cards (those just keep rising) — and then get information about each of my accounts. It’s secure, easy and fun to use. In addition to getting account info, Mint also gives suggestions on ways to save money or cut down on debt — always a helpful feature.

Whether you’re an information whore or a drive-by reader, services like these can help you stay organized. Being organized can not only save you time but introduce you to new information. How do you think I found out about LOLcatz? Oh yeah, my feed reader!

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Organization — Inform one, inform them all.

ReadBurner is a site that deals with RSS feeds. RSS is a great way of keeping up-to-date on almost any website. Any website that’s worth their weight in hosting dollars has an RSS feed to follow. The guys at ReadBurner try to keep the news and information fresh by pulling in RSS feeds from people that share their most loved articles in Google Reader and Netvibes. This means that you can always find out what your friends (all right, you might not even know or like them) or enemies are reading and keeping up with today.

Technorati on the other hand scours the interwebs for the latest and greatest blog posts. They rank both the posts and the blogs that they were posted on to help you find out who is an “authority” in the area that you want to know more about. Different from ReadBurner, they do not limit where they get their information from. They simply wait for people to either ping them or they receive content from links of other blogs. Using a patented (maybe?) system, they keep track of what’s hot and what’s not.

Alltop has taken an even different approach from the first two that I’ve talked about. They take what they consider the most important and special (that apparently includes yours truly) blogs or RSS feeds on the internet and list them in a very simple, easy to browse form. From art to geekery, they have almost any category of information that you might be looking for. In addition to listing the information out, Alltop allows any user to modify what they see on the screen. Don’t want to see that blog on motherhood and sex, just click the little X and it’s gone (at least until you clear your cookies).

It doesn’t matter what way you choose to get your information, just choose to get it. Using the services listed above or any other methods, keep up to date on the news that matters. It will make your life and work that much easier.

P.S. – Come find us and more on Alltop at http://humor.alltop.com or http://oddities.alltop.com. Are they trying to call us odd?

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Information is the key to success