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- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I've tried a good number of these feed readers, but I ended up with Opera's built in feed reader, as it was very nice and clean. Unfortunately, I can't sync my feeds at work with my feeds at home--that would be quite nice.
- Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes, I've found it to be the best for my needs too. But I don't use Opera as much as FF because FF tends to handle embedded video better. Opera's integrated mail client is also nicely done, IMO.
- Merlinhoot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Sage Firefox extension is the best for me @ sage.mozdev.org
- SH3LB0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Google Reader. easy, clean, efficient
- diggapleeeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Bah, Netvibes as my homepage serves me well. Audio, video, photos, whatever.
- computerdude33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3But, if you love free (as in speech) like I do, Vienna is the best choice.
http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php - hehe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I also use Opera's built-in feed reader and it's pretty darn good--the layout is clean, it's easy to use, and it's never been troublesome. And, like the other aggregators, it'll give you the text of the aritcle (full or partial depending on the feed), show videos, etc. The reviewer definately should have included Opera.
- nightfox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go Netvibes!
http://noel.feria.name/blog/2006/10/13/netvibes/ - richard5mith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@capn_caveman: Alertbear was never designed for somebody with lots of feeds. It's designed for people with only a small number of feeds who thinks that email style readers are just daft. Like me. That's why I designed Alertbear. We know it's not for everyone, and that's OK. :)
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Google Reader is amazing, and from the time I've spent with it it looks like aKregator for KDE is a pretty good feed reader as well.
Speaking of RSS readers, I wonder if Firefox is ever going to offer any decent built-in feed reading. Live bookmarks aren't terrible by any means, but they really don't compare to most of the other RSS reader out there. - vortec42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Protopage ( http://www.protopage.com ) recently added a news feed reader, it's a bit buggy but not bad. No extra software to install and you can use it on any browser, it saves your settings.
- mingistech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't like NetNewsWire at all.
-NewsFire- Mac RSS with Style. :)
http://www.newsfirerss.com/ - motang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah AlertBear is cool, but I came back to RSSOwl simply because I was used to it and it's cross platform.
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4^ bah.... sorry :P http://www.alertbear.com
Anyways, my second choice is Google Reader. - mahalie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree. An online reader is a must for me so after some time with Bloglines, Rojo, Newsalloy I converted to Google Reader right after their redesign. Google reader initially sucked IMHO, but their second iteration works great, it's very efficient to use and like Gmail they're always sneaking in new and useful features.
- spect3r, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4May I suggest alertbear? http://www.alertbear.com.. it's pretty slick. I've been using it for a long time now and have never had a problem with it.
- Antitorgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Then you might want to check out FeedDemon. It synchronizes between computers beautifully.
- Stemp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Liferea ?
http://liferea.sourceforge.net/ - mahalie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://digg.com/view/technology ;o)
check out: http://www.technorati.com/pop/blogs/?faves=1
and I'm not sure I agree with some of their findings (maybe it's dated?)
http://news.com.com/2310-10784_3-0.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That looks very slick actually. Maybe when they work some bugs out I'll try it.
- andreascliment, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The article is wrong about Newsfire not playing audio. It has a built in audioplayer.
- higher750, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2RSS Bandit, definitely one of the best desktop RSS newsreaders
http://www.rssbandit.org/ - adinb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1try out endo & see what you think...
- jaiwithani, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sadly it's only on linux for now, but akregator meets just about all of those requirements with it's "view full page" feature, which displays the full page linked to from the rss feed in the akregator window.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Netvibes is great, and very customizable.
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I used alertbear for a while until one day I just removed it because it was too buggy for me. Another issue I had with alertbear was that it only presents items in a river of news fashion. Because I subscribe to so many feeds it became difficult for me to find older items - I would find myself having to scroll back forever to see what I missed when I was away from my reader for a couple of hours.
Once I removed alertbear I stumbled upon a reader called SharpReader. It looks somewhat similar to FeedDemon that was reviewed in this article. I wish they would have reviewed that in this blog post. I fell in love instantly with that program. Hands down better than alertbear - Much Much faster. Presents river of news and also has customizable folders for RSS feeds. - marshallk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Really? I'm looking again right now and I'm not seeing it.
- TheVirus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I never really got into the whole RSS thing, but I might as well start. What are some popular feeds? There are far too many out there for me to search, so post your favorites.
- acedanger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, Google Reader is the best...
- Emerica, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1MadCat is a multipurpose application that allows you to browse the web, while enjoying quality video content from around the world. MadCat can download you're favorite Rss feeds, Democracy channels, or sniff media links out the webpages you browse.
MadCat's video engine is powered by VideoLan, allowing playback of many formats, without a codec download.
Video can be streamed live or downloaded to watch later.
http://www.getmadcat.com - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone have experience with RSSOwl?
- sarusa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1After trying a dozen RSS readers I now just use Thunderbird. It works well enough for RSS - each feed shows up as a separate mailbox folder and each item shows up as a new email message. Which is a fairly appropriate and intuitive mapping.
It's /not/ the best for rich media - it does photos but not video or audio. Which is okay, I just click on the link and it opens up in Firefox, which can handle it.
Plus, it's one less damn window to have open, and that's a big deal. - alexvalentine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My favorite reader by far.. I'm amazed anyone could write a roundup without including it.
- MacsBaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is this the Dilbert feed you're looking for (http://feeds.feedburner.com/tapestrydilbert )? Got it from protopage.com. They have it set up on their sample site.
- edmondodantes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1greatnews
http://www.curiostudio.com/feature.html
http://www.curiostudio.com/index.html - MacsBaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Protopage is great! It's flexible and you have tabs and categories for easy organization.
Oh, and I think most if not all the bugs have been worked out. They team that works on this site were incredibly responsive to issues. You would post an issue on their comments sections and you would get a quick response from them that they would work on it and....THEY DID. They said they would and they actually fixed things, in a timely matter. - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was about to mention akregator too. The integration with Konqueror is very nice. I highly recommend it.
- MacsBaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To me it's not a matter of what feeds are popular. It's a matter of what sites am I looking at most in a day and would being able to see their updates on one page save me time and effort?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Screw that. It's either web based or nothing. I have 160+ feeds that I track... who has time for syncing anything?
Got your own servers? Set up MonkeyChow. Want something more integrated with web services, go for Google Reader. Otherwise go for Bloglines or Rojo. - kzadorozhny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like News Alloy http://www.newsalloy.com/. It's has all advanced features I ever needed.
- strategictech, on 08/06/2009, -0/+0Please Check out and comment on this article I wrote about using google reader! http://digg.com/gadgets/Syndicating_Relevant_Feeds ...
- kuttan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anybody tried www.newshutch.com It has quite some cool AJAX features
- wdhow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's an OK reader but doesn't seem to work with all feeds, which is a bit rubbish. It does look good though...
- adinb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1uggh, win only
- dcab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google Reader is my favorite reader.
- TheComplex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use Google Reader but one thing that baffles me about the search giant's reader: no search in feeds.
Google please explain: why can't i search in my feeds? If i want to search feeds I'll go to Gobits Reader [http://reader.gobits.com/] . Can't search all my feeds at once but at least I can search individual feeds. - knectar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0an rss addict's alternative http://www.feedmashr.com
- Aessa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The feature I am most interested in which is not addressed often is filtering. Quick search is fine but I like filtering as you can do in Thunderbird. That way I can easily see which items I can read out of interest and the return to the main line for general browsing. Thunderbird never quite managed automatic checking, but I'm now on Thunderbird 2 in linux and all is better than well. I would strongly suggest Thunderbird for RSS if you have it open for email all day anyway.
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