5 amazing browser extensions for breaking news addictive person

5 amazing browser extensions for breaking news addictive person

Unless you’re a journalist, it’s tough to keep up with breaking news.

Keeping one eye on Twitter and constantly refreshing the homepage of your favorite news source is effective, but tiring. Thankfully, there are some helpful shortcuts.

Browser extensions can help the news addictive person who’s always attached to a computer stay up on everything he or she needs to know. From global alerts to headline highlighters, these five extensions will work around the clock to keep you informed.

1.    Everything News

Chrome extension Everything News lists a constant scroll of headlines and links from The New York Times, CNN News, The Huffington Post, Reuters and CBS Top Stories. With one quick click, you can see the news that’s trending on all five sites.

2.     NewsHub

NewsHub for Chrome pops out a little drop-down menu that you can quickly browse through to see strategic incoming headlines.

 3.    Gravity Highlighter

If you’re constantly looking for breaking news on a specific topic, the Gravity Highlighter is here to help. It learns what kind of news you read about, then will highlight articles on that topic on whichever site you visit.

 4.    Notifier

Twitter is one of the best tools for rapid-fire breaking news. To ensure you’re not missing a thing, use the Firefox extension Notifier for Twitter. It creates a sidebar for the social site and has notifications that ping red when something noteworthy happens.

5.    Feedly Mini

Feedly is a popular aggregate tool that gathers all the sites you love into one place. First, use Feedly — then, get Feedly Mini, an accompanying Chrome extension that brings everything you care about into a neat little sidebar.

 

Another Feedly extension is Feedly Notifier, which works with Chrome and Firefox. It pops up to notify you of everything in your feed.

Hope you enjoy this list.