Revamp Your HTC One M8 Blinkfeed In 5 Minutes - Get Ready For A Personalized Feed!
If you are an HTC One M8 user, you are probably familiar with Blinkfeed, the home screen feature that aggregates news, social updates, and other online content. But if you haven’t explored Blinkfeed’s customization options, you might not be getting the best out of this useful feature.
In this article, we will show you how to revamp your HTC One M8 Blinkfeed in just five minutes and create a personalized feed that reflects your interests and preferences.
Step 1: Access Blinkfeed Settings
To access Blinkfeed settings, swipe left on the home screen until you see Blinkfeed, then tap the three dots icon at the top right corner and select “Settings.”
Step 2: Choose Your Content Sources
Under “Content Sources,” you can select the topics and websites that you want to see in your Blinkfeed. You can choose from different categories such as News, Sports, Technology, Lifestyle, or add specific sources by entering their URL.
To make the most of Blinkfeed, we recommend selecting a range of sources that cover your favorite topics, as well as some new ones to broaden your perspective.
Step 3: Set Up Social Networks
If you want to include social updates from Facebook, Twitter, or other accounts, go to “Social Networks” and connect your accounts. You can also choose which types of posts you want to see, such as updates from friends, pages, or groups.
Step 4: Choose Your Theme
Blinkfeed offers several themes to customize its appearance, from Material Design to minimalist or colorful designs. To change your theme, go to “Appearance” and select the one that suits your style.
Step 5: Rearrange Your Feed
Blinkfeed allows you to rearrange the order of your content sources, so you can prioritize the ones you want to see first. To do this, go to “Content Sources” and touch and hold the source you want to move, then drag it to the desired position.
Bonus Tip: Add Custom Topics
If you want to add a custom topic to your Blinkfeed, tap the search icon at the top right corner of the Blinkfeed screen and enter your keyword. Blinkfeed will show you the results from various sources, and you can select the one you want to add.
With these simple steps, you can revamp your HTC One M8 Blinkfeed and make it a personalized window to the internet. Whether you want to follow the latest news, check your social updates, or discover new interests, Blinkfeed can help you stay informed and entertained in just a glance.
So why not take five minutes now to explore Blinkfeed’s customization options and create a feed that suits your taste? You might be surprised at the new sources and topics you discover, and the fresh perspective they bring to your daily routine.
When HTC initially introduced BlinkFeed with Sense 5 on the HTC One M7, the feature was termed as gimmicky by many. However, with constant updates, HTC has managed to make BlinkFeed extremely useful. In fact, it forced Samsung to copy take inspiration and include a very similar My Magazine feature on the Galaxy S5. With the One M8 and Sense 6.0, HTC has further refined BlinkFeed by adding more customization sources and making it a standalone app for quick and easy apps from the Play Store. Below is a quick walk-through of BlinkFeed showing you how to customize and even disable it.
Customizing BlinkFeed
BlinkFeed can show you updates from all the popular social networks including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Google+. Apart from this, it also plugs into a variety of websites to bring you the latest news updates from a bunch of fields, and can display your important calendar events, Fitbit stats, give you restaurant recommendations and more.
To customize the sources of BlinkFeed, swipe to the right from the BlinkFeed screen. Then, tap the overflow menu button on the top and select the Services & Apps option. Here, you can select the various social media accounts including Google+, Instagram and Twitter whose updates you want to be displayed on your homescreen. If you want, you can also select your FitBit stats and Calendar events to be displayed on it. To add news sources, head back to the BlinkFeed home screen, swipe to the right to bring up the sidebar and select the Add Content option from the overflow menu button. BlinkFeed will now give you a list of categories like Health, Sports, Technology and others. Select any category you like and then select the sources from which you want to receive the updates. You can also pre-fetch articles in BlinkFeed so that you can read them whenever you are free, without worrying whether you have a working mobile data connection or not.
Simply head over to Settings from the overflow menu button in BlinkFeed’s sidebar and select the Offline news reading option. Here you can select whether you only want to prefetch the text or the full article including images, which will obviously be more data intensive. You can also specify BlinkFeed to refresh over mobile data from this Settings menu if you feel like. Lastly, you can get your unread articles to show up in BlinkFeed as well. Simply tap on the Reading list option under Content and select Pocket. Your other options include Evernote and HTC’s own reading list. What do you think about HTC’s BlinkFeed? Is it useful or just another hyped up feature? Drop in a comment and let us know!
