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hi i'm jay markham Vimy with Cena and you are probably looking for a new RSS reader right about now in this how-to I'm gonna show you how to get started with one of the most popular google reader alternatives out there feedly first things first in order to access feedly you'll need to head over to feedly.com to pick up a browser extension it's available on Chrome Firefox and Safari and there are apps available for Android and iOS next simply login with your Google account nice thing is if you're already a Google reader user then feedly will automatically sync all of your subscriptions and worry not because when Google Reader officially bites the dust all of your subscriptions will remain according with folks at feedly once you're logged in I recommend first expanding your browser window otherwise feed Lee's navigation will stay hidden in this little hover menu which can get annoying if you like to quickly jump between new sources like I do now to start adding subscriptions from the Explorer bar on the right you can search for specific sites you want to subscribe to or browse through feed Lee's curated list of recommendations from the list you can subscribe to sites individually or to entire categories at once which is really convenient there's also this nifty starter kit for those who need it to start reading you could use the today tab which matches up some of the latest posts across all of your subscriptions but I prefer sifting through content by category source by source the thing about feedly is that it's a lot more visual than Google Reader almost like an online magazine and some people may not like that if that's you then you can easily change the layout to your liking when you click a post it expands inline share tools are here up top and this bookmark is just like the star in Google Reader you can also save items to pocket or Instapaper and for the power users out there who love Google Reader shortcut keys feedly has a set of its own just like in Google Reader you can type a question mark to bring up the list finally be sure to check out feed Lee's different themes as well as the big preference scream if you're looking for a more customized experience so that's feedly for google reader users it might take a little getting used to but hey it looks great it's got a lot of features and it'll get the job done for more tips and tricks head over to how to dot cnet.com I'm Jay Marcum BB thanks for watching