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I've been using Bloglines for a couple years now, and it seems they are shutting down at the end of the month.
One of the rationale for the shutdown was that people really don't use them much anymore. And while it doesn't surprise me in the least to find out that i'm behind the tech curve.. I have to wonder what everyone else is using these days.
I don't want feeds coming to my phone, or email... I just want to go to one central place to peruse my favorite blogs.
Suggestions?
One of the rationale for the shutdown was that people really don't use them much anymore. And while it doesn't surprise me in the least to find out that i'm behind the tech curve.. I have to wonder what everyone else is using these days.
I don't want feeds coming to my phone, or email... I just want to go to one central place to peruse my favorite blogs.
Suggestions?
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Google Reader is probably the best feed reader that is currently out there.
There are few online feed reader applications left, most companies have been focusing on applications (NetNewsWire, etc.) for the desktop.
There are few online feed reader applications left, most companies have been focusing on applications (NetNewsWire, etc.) for the desktop.
#5
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Google Reader also interacts very well with mobile formatted front-ends and Apps like Reeder, Byline etc. So if you use a variety of devices you can use the best looking front-end and everything syncs well with Google Reader in the background.
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Google Reader. I too was a Blogline user. The best thing with Google Reader is that all the RSS reader apps on my mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod touch) are Google Reader compatible.
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I've been using Google Reader for about 3 weeks now, and I just don't like the look, feel, and functionality of it nearly as much as I did those of the Firefox add-in Brief.
I don't like how the article titles are in such large fonts, I don't like that clicking on a title in list view expands that article rather than (as Brief did) opening it in a new tab. I don't like how I still have to look at a list of articles even after I've marked them all read.
Our family might be adopting an iPad sometime soon, and if so I might end up reading my RSS feeds much more enjoyably on that device.
Nonetheless, I still yearn for a Firefox compatible RSS reader as enjoyable to use as the no-longer-supported Brief.
I do like the fact that with Google Reader you can see your unread feeds on any computer without tedious syncing (xmarks and firefox sync never worked that well for me). I just would like a more attractive GUI.
Is what I'm looking for a Google Reader-compatible front-end app (as someone mentioned above)? If so, can someone recommend one for a desktop PC and Firefox? And one for an iPad?
I don't like how the article titles are in such large fonts, I don't like that clicking on a title in list view expands that article rather than (as Brief did) opening it in a new tab. I don't like how I still have to look at a list of articles even after I've marked them all read.
Our family might be adopting an iPad sometime soon, and if so I might end up reading my RSS feeds much more enjoyably on that device.
Nonetheless, I still yearn for a Firefox compatible RSS reader as enjoyable to use as the no-longer-supported Brief.
I do like the fact that with Google Reader you can see your unread feeds on any computer without tedious syncing (xmarks and firefox sync never worked that well for me). I just would like a more attractive GUI.
Is what I'm looking for a Google Reader-compatible front-end app (as someone mentioned above)? If so, can someone recommend one for a desktop PC and Firefox? And one for an iPad?
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I've been using Google Reader for about 3 weeks now, and I just don't like the look, feel, and functionality of it nearly as much as I did those of the Firefox add-in Brief.
I don't like how the article titles are in such large fonts, I don't like that clicking on a title in list view expands that article rather than (as Brief did) opening it in a new tab. I don't like how I still have to look at a list of articles even after I've marked them all read.
Our family might be adopting an iPad sometime soon, and if so I might end up reading my RSS feeds much more enjoyably on that device.
Nonetheless, I still yearn for a Firefox compatible RSS reader as enjoyable to use as the no-longer-supported Brief.
I do like the fact that with Google Reader you can see your unread feeds on any computer without tedious syncing (xmarks and firefox sync never worked that well for me). I just would like a more attractive GUI.
Is what I'm looking for a Google Reader-compatible front-end app (as someone mentioned above)? If so, can someone recommend one for a desktop PC and Firefox? And one for an iPad?
I don't like how the article titles are in such large fonts, I don't like that clicking on a title in list view expands that article rather than (as Brief did) opening it in a new tab. I don't like how I still have to look at a list of articles even after I've marked them all read.
Our family might be adopting an iPad sometime soon, and if so I might end up reading my RSS feeds much more enjoyably on that device.
Nonetheless, I still yearn for a Firefox compatible RSS reader as enjoyable to use as the no-longer-supported Brief.
I do like the fact that with Google Reader you can see your unread feeds on any computer without tedious syncing (xmarks and firefox sync never worked that well for me). I just would like a more attractive GUI.
Is what I'm looking for a Google Reader-compatible front-end app (as someone mentioned above)? If so, can someone recommend one for a desktop PC and Firefox? And one for an iPad?
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As an alternative to Google, try out Goodbits (http://www.rsshero.com/).
If you're a technical person, take a gander at Fever. You have to install it to your own server, but it's kind of fun to roll your own. http://feedafever.com/ It will also soon sync with previously mentioned iOS app Reeder.
If you're a technical person, take a gander at Fever. You have to install it to your own server, but it's kind of fun to roll your own. http://feedafever.com/ It will also soon sync with previously mentioned iOS app Reeder.
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I like Reeder but several of the blogs I have in my (Google) feed don't play well with it. They truncate the blog post and force you to click through to the web page to read the whole blog post. That defeats the whole point of Reeder to me which is larger, more legible text.
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I like Reeder but several of the blogs I have in my (Google) feed don't play well with it. They truncate the blog post and force you to click through to the web page to read the whole blog post. That defeats the whole point of Reeder to me which is larger, more legible text.
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