TechURLs, DevURLs, SciURLs. Who They are and What They Do
Gone are days when we use to open
so many tabs while browsing, after a certain point in time, it gets difficult
to stay on top of everything. There are so many blogs, sites, and feeds to go
through. But the tools or the websites that we are talking about here today are
all set to improve your reading experience and help you stay on top of your
reading list. TechURLs, DevURLs, and SciURLs are three sister websites that
aggregate technology, developer and science news.
By aggregation we mean, you can
read articles from all your favorite websites at one single place. You do not
need to subscribe to different newsletters or open all websites individually;
these URL sites have got you covered. The time taken to find an interesting
article to read is significantly reduced as every website and article is right
in front of you.
TechURLs aggregates technology
news from the top 30 technology blogs and websites. And a few names included in
this top 30 list are Reddit, Wired, Slashdot, Hacker News, Digg, The Verge,
Medium, Tech Crunch, Engadget, Mashable and the likes. You can quickly scroll
through the news titles and click them to open the tech news that you want to
read.
DevURLs is for software
developers who love to read about new technologies and developer news. Its
aggregate news from Medium (Programming), Lobsters, Hacker Noon, Smashing
Magazine, Google Developers Blog, Facebook Code Blog, etc. The website also has
a section that brings up trending GitHub repositories if you are interested.
Love reading about science?
SciURLs aggregate news from websites like Nature, Medium (Science), Scientific
America, Phys.org, Wired, IEE Spectrum, Science Daily, BBC Science, etc. There
are about 30 websites/blogs available.
News aggregation is not only the
feature that these sites offer. They come with a complete set of features that
make your experience even better. The features have been discussed in details,
and they apply to all three of these websites.
Best User Interface
The websites host an amazingly
neat and clean user interface. Different websites/blogs are arranged in a grid
of cards. You can either read them all or just focus on one card at a time.
Above that is the amazing search box that we’ll discuss next.
Search Engine
Since you have a lot of content
to read, a good search engine is a must. The powerful search box on these
websites let you search for your favorite article heading across all these
websites. This comes handy when you really forgot where you read an article.
TechURLs Search Results
Plus, the powerful query features
offered by the search engine make it more usable. You can create a lot of
queries to find what you are looking for. Click on Search Tips to explore
different kinds of queries that are supported.
Search Tips
There is one more way to search
and believe me; this one is even quicker. For example, if you want to search
TechURLs for term “Windows”, just open the following address in your browser:
techurls.com/?q=windows
This would instantly load all the
results and display it to you.
Archiving
These are not just RSS readers;
the websites maintain their own archive that can be accessed to get old
articles. Just below the website/blog’s name, you can find various options that
can load latest, daily, weekly or monthly news from this website. Also, towards
the left of the article’s headline, the time period since it has been published
is displayed. Again, archives are helpful when you are looking for something
old.
Rearrange Dashboard
Everybody has different reading
tastes, and these websites totally respect that. You can head over to
“Rearrange” settings if you want to modify the arrangement of news
websites/blogs. If you read a website/blog more often, you can put it at the
beginning. Or you can remove any website if you don’t read it altogether. This
feature adds a little personalization touch to the overall reading experience
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