Productivity Myths Debunked, Smart Watches, and the Joys of Feedly

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🗓️ 20 June 2013

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week on the podcast we're debunking productivity myths, checking out smart watches, and migrating Google Reader to Feedly. We're also answering your questions about the future of Wi-Fi (802.11ac), getting your parents off of AOL, and using a TV as a computer monitor. Looking for the show notes? You can find this episode at http://lifehacker.com/523344036 (after 5:00 PM PT) and all episodes at http://lifehacker.com/theshow (anytime). See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Hey and welcome to this episode of the Ask LifeHacker podcast.
0:04.7	It is June 20th, and this week we are talking about Feedly, getting ready to replace Google Reader,
0:10.1	more productivity myths debunked by science, and getting stock Android on any phone without rooting.
0:16.0	We're also answering your questions about 80211 AC, the future of Wi-Fi,
0:20.2	getting your parents off of AOL and
0:22.1	onto Gmail, and using TVs as a computer monitor.
0:25.3	And as always, we'll be going through our favorite tips and downloads of the week,
0:28.9	so let's get started. Hey, everybody, and welcome to the show. I am Whitson Gordon. I'm Adam Dodgers. And with us today we have Mr.
1:00.7	Allen something Henry joining us if you go go hangouts. I don't know your middle name. I was trying
1:05.8	to make that really official. No, I don't. It's Lawrence, by the way. Lawrence. You sound like a king.
1:12.0	I was going to say, see if I had said,
1:13.5	Alan Warren, Henry, that would have made him sound really kingly,
1:15.8	but I didn't know his middle name.
1:17.4	I didn't know we were in the presence of royalty.
1:22.8	All right, so we've got a little bit of news today.
1:25.1	We got a lot of good questions, though.
1:26.6	So let's start to speed through this news here.
1:29.5	First up, feedly is still making leaps and bounds in the realm of RSS feeds.
1:35.3	As many of you know, Google Reader is shutting down two weeks or a week and a half from the recording of this episode.
1:43.5	And ever since that was announced
1:45.1	feedly has been kind of the the next most popular rs s reader and they've just been working like
1:50.2	crazy to bring a bunch of new features and make it more friendly to google reader migrators um and so this
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