I just reinstalled the OS on the laptop -- it was slow and cluttered with
tons of apps I have tried out for the last 9 months or so. It wasn't exactly
on my agenda these days, but I kinda did multiple tasking by working on the
desktop while re-installing everything on the laptop.
While setting up Thunderbird I was considering also making it the default
RSS reader since i) it has that option and ii) in spite of me being familiar
and quite comfortable with Sharpreader it eats up lots of memory (about 50
megs) and slows down the machine considerably. Unfortunately Thunderbird has
only two options: it either downloads the entire page, which I dislike due
to the time waste, or takes an abstract, usually the first 20 word or so,
which again I am not really a big fan of - I actually don't subscribe to
websites that don't offer FULL feeds.
So I am still at square zero, not sure what to do. Most likely will get
back to Sharpreader till I find a better (web-based) reader - I am only
looking for something simple, usable and light letting me read
everything fast and clean -- kinda like Gtalk in the IM space. Actually I
couldn't imagine on the user lock in such a RSS reader can create -- the
switcching costs are high.
Googlehome/my yahoo or Start.com are not among the options I am considering
- btw I will have something similar on @rgumente soon: my feeds available
only as titles though, but the cool thing is that I can import the opml and
have everything in one space. Kinda makes a good experience when scanning
for good titles.
Btw, speaking of IM clients -- MSN's is 9.1Mb, Yahoo's 20Mb and Skype
7.2Mb. GTalk is only 900k -- how the hell can you beat that? The
former still benefit from what it's called network externalities (the more
users the more value for the network) -- I truly hope people would start
using GTalk, while the app remains in this resource range. :)
UPDATE: I am playing with Rojo....
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....works really well, and it's online. Works from any PC.
I quit using Bloglines for a long time, I don't like the way it moves. Actually I had checked it out tonight as well, just as an emergency option -- I feel as if nothing changed, feeds were not updated since last month, etc. Though, I must admit, it is faster than last time I checked.
same as Bloglines, Rojo cand't handle OPML files with subcategories...
would you care to share your Rojo ID for your most devoted users :))
...handle the subcategories, been playing with it right after they went out of beta --- but just like bloglines, cluttered, difficult to handle and sooo slow.
you got email. :)
If you're a Firefox user, I found Sage (http://sage.mozdev.org) to be a quite good RSS reader
If you are considering a desktop app - have you tried FeedDemon?
yeap, tried both Sage and FeedDemon. Don't like them. Also gave a try to the newly launched SearchFox, am not impressed at all.
Surprisingly, for desktop thunderbird works just fine, in spite of lacking the OPML import, if you select the abstract option it brings up the entire text feed. Two problems here: the thunderbird backup is really bad I was told - somebody from my company lost 2 years of emails because of this. Secondly, the opml export -- how the hell will I do that? I will keep digging.
For online I just keep bloglines as the main RSS links databases.
...and Trillian does them all and it's only 8.5 MB.
http://www.download.com/Trillian/3000-2150-10047473.html?part=dl-trillian&subj=dl&tag=button