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+<img align=right src="http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey/feedthemonkey-icon.png" width='256' alt='Icon'>
+
+# Feed the Monkey
+
+Feed the Monkey is a desktop client for [TinyTinyRSS](http://tt-rss.org). That means that
+it doesn't work as a standalone feed reader but only as a client for the TinyTinyRSS API
+which it uses to get the normalized feeds and to synchronize the "article read" marks.
+
+It is written in C++ with Qt and QML, it also uses WebKit to show the contents.
+
+You need to have Qt 5.4 installed be able to compile and have a account on a TinyTinyRSS server.
+This version 2 is still in a early stage so there are no binaries available yet but will be
+as soon as I figure out how to package and distribute them.
+
+License: BSD
+
+## Installation
+
+Clone the repo, install the Qt 5.4 SDK on your computer and use QtCreator to compile and run it.
+
+## Keyboard shortcuts
+
+The keyboard shortcuts are inspired by other feed readers which are inspired by the text editor vi.
+
+`j` or `→` show nex article  
+`k` or `←` show previous article  
+`n` or `Return` open current article in the default browser  
+`r` reload articles  
+`Ctrl Q` quit  
+`Ctrl +` zoom in  
+`Ctrl -` zoom out  
+`Ctrl 0` reset zoom
+
+On OS X use `Cmd` instead of `Ctrl`.
+
+## Trivia
+
+This is version 2 of FeedTheMonkey, you can find version 1 which was written in PyQt in the v1 branch
+of this repo. My goal is to make this usable on many different targets, for now it is only for
+the use on a desktop computer but I'd like to see it on a mobile device too.
+
+## Screenshot
+
+![Feed the Monkey screenshot](http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey/screenshot.png)
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