08 Dec
Posted by Joshua Dorkin as Blogging, Mac, Web Applications
I’ve been suffering a bit here with my new iMac. Everything is perfect, except I’m lacking an adequate feed reader / aggregator. I’m currently using an aggregator called Vienna, a RSS reader for Mac OS X, but it does not compare to FeedReader (the PC reader I’ve been using).
Vienna lacks the ability to easily recognize new feeds if you enter a website’s URL (not the feed’s). Every other good aggregator I’ve used has this functionality. There are a few other annoyances (inability to easily remove read articles quickly), but I haven’t found a suitable replacement.
BTW - I know everyone is raving about the web based reader from Google, but I prefer a stand-alone application on my desktop.
Anyone know of a good reader?

5 Responses
Mark Woodman
December 8th, 2006 at 10:07 am
1The biggie is NetNewsWire, but you have to pay for it.
http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire
If you’re willing to have the Java Runtime on your machine, you might want to give RSSOwl a try. http://www.rssowl.org/
Regards,
Mark
josh
December 8th, 2006 at 11:08 am
2Mark -
Thanks for your suggestions. I’m going to check both of those tools out.
Andrew
December 29th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
3Why not go with an online reader? The new Google Reader Beta is pretty nice, and you don’t have sync issues.
josh
December 29th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
4After conducting further research and testing out a bunch of readers, I’ve decided to go with Google Reader. It does everything I need it to and it is portable!
Ross at Hatchthat
November 15th, 2007 at 2:18 am
5Bloglines works great for me, but I guess you need to be online for it. I can’t stand the Google Reader but I find Bloglines usable.
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