Thanks to Clifton, I went and had a look at Google Reader today.
If you’ve been reading for a while then you’ll know that I’ve said a bit about Google Reader before. I liked it because I could read posts individually and mark them as read when I’d actually read them. I didn’t like it because its archiving and grouping capabilities were extremely lame.
Google has recently updated its reader so that you can organise feeds into folders as well as giving them “labels”. You can see which feeds have been updated and how many new entries there are. You can select to only see the updated feeds or all of them. You can still mark them individually as read by clicking “next item” to read the next entry, indicating that you’ve read the previous one or you can scroll through and click “mark all as read” when you want to.
I’ve recently changed from Akregator to Liferea (Linux Feed Reader). Not because I didn’t like Akregator, I thought it was brilliant, I just changed because it was intended for KDE and it worked on Gnome but I have this urge to have maximum compatibility with my software. If you were wondering between those two I’d say Akregator is cool because it has the ability to open new tabs in the program so you can comment or open a link from a post in the same program, you don’t have to go back to Firefox. Liferea is good for now though.
If you’re looking for an on-line/web-based RSS reader check out Google Reader. It’s pretty sweet and improving.
i’m glad they improved on it – the old google reader was not very good! i have since settled for newsgator and am pretty happy with it … I purchased the outlook version too.
by the way, I was going to ask you about this one – I noticed that you have the “subscribe to comments via email” and “notify me of followup comments via email” in the comments area… what is the difference? isn’t it redundant? i.e. when you check “notify me” you will kind of be subscribing to comments right?
I know! I saw those two subscribe things just this weekend and thought “WTH – why are there two?” I’m usually signed in already so it doesn’t give me those checkboxes.
I’m thinking it must have been that Brian’s Threaded Comments had the tag for the email plugin in one place and I didn’t notice when I installed it and put another tag in. I’m not sure. It still works, I think, so I’ll get to it when I can 🙂