I like RSS Readers for some things – catching up on news, TV listings, etc. I try not to use them too much for blog reading because – well, blogs are (generally) labors of love & I want to see what you’ve been laboring on. 🙂
I’ve been using FeedDemon off & on during the trial period. It’s very good and the price ($30) seems to be about right for a good app. That being said, I downloaded SauceReader yesterday and, man, it’s great. It’s still in a 1.7 beta version, but I haven’t seen any bugs. Very easy to use – very similar to FeedDemon. Did I mention it’s free? I really like it. If your on a Windows 2000/XP computer, check out SauceReader.
One caveat to my “see”-ing statement above, both SauceReader & FeedDemon (and a lot of other readers) will load the page within a client window if you choose, so you can blog read & “blog see”, too.
I’d add that OS X has a nice RSS reader in Pulp Fiction. Also when Tiger (the next version of OS X) comes out RSS reading will be integrated into Safari.
Every time I see Pulp I want to run out and buy a Mac. Is that sick? That one little newsreader is that damn good.
The way I use my news-reader — mainly for checking to see when a blog is updated — doesn’t lend itself well to those big RSS readers. I currently use BlogMatrix Jaeger which isn’t a typical news-reader, per se… but it does EXACTLY what I want it to do:
1. Sits over next to a browser window with a list of new posts from all the blogs.
2. Takes me there in my current browser window if I double-click on the blog name. (or takes me to the post if I click on the post title)
It’s very simple, and very clean.
Have you used bloglines at all? It is free and online so that you can check things from anywhere you are!
I downloaded and installed this last night. I love it! I was using NewzCrawler for a while last year, but never really embraced it. This one’s better! Now I just need to get Mr. brykMantra to give me a feed to read!