Subscribe Feed (RSS)Need a Good Feed Reader or Aggregator for Mac
December 8th, 2006 by Joshua Dorkin | Filed under 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?
The 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
Mark -
Thanks for your suggestions. I’m going to check both of those tools out.
Why not go with an online reader? The new Google Reader Beta is pretty nice, and you don’t have sync issues.
After 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!
Bloglines 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.