What RSS Readers do You Use?

Posted At : 23 November 2007 00:24 | Posted By : Dan Lancelot
Related Categories: RSS

Just a quick post to try and find out what RSS readers people use - and how they rate them.

I currently use google reader for all my web based feeds (It's about the only thing I've found that seems usable for the number of feeds I (try!) to follow!

I need something else though particularly for internal RSS feeds. Internally we have a number of apps which provide an RSS feed - in particular Trac.

I need an app which which notifies me as soon as there are any new posts, and which will continue to highlight to me that I have unread items until I have read them.

I need an app that can run in the background all the time - preferably as a taskbar icon - basically like an IM client for RSS feeds.

It needs to be able to run on Windows XP (although I'm sure the 7% of you who are visiting using OSX will no doubt want to tell me how there is a much better solution on the Mac!)

Any recomendations?

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I use Desktop Sidebar for Windows XP (http://www.desktopsidebar.com). It's a really nice, unobtrusive way to keep your feeds always visible and ticking over

# Posted By Tony Fendall | 23/11/07 02:23

I used to use Sharpreader. I recently switched to Feedreader.

It runs on Windows, allows for searches, and smart feeds, and categorized feeds.

# Posted By Terrence P Ryan | 23/11/07 03:54

I use Google Reader

# Posted By Cris | 23/11/07 09:28

I use the RSS reader that is built in to Thunderbird. Using it for years now, and it is outstanding.

# Posted By Cutter | 23/11/07 12:27

I use Google Reader now but had used Thunderbird's RSS reader when I was working from home.

# Posted By Phil Duba | 23/11/07 13:19

Thanks for your responses.

I've downloaded Feedreader onto my main dev machine - it seems on the face of it to do a good job - I'll run with it a while to see how well it fits.

I'm going to download Desktop Sidebar as well for my other work machine - I have used this in the past - although I seem to remember I stopped using it at one stage beacause of resource issues (this was on a low specced machine a while back).

I have used thunderbird's RSS reader in the past - again, seemed to work ok - but as I am not using thunderbird on a day to day basis, I'd rather have a tool dedicated to the job...

I already use google reader - and will continue to do so for my public newsfeeds - however I need this tool for following internal feeds (primarily our Trac Ticket feeds, from an internal server) so a web based reader is not suitable for this task (+ the feeds would get drowned out by everything else I am already following with google reader!).

I'll let you know how it goes...

# Posted By Dan Lancelot | 23/11/07 22:49

Wow... no feeddemons?

# Posted By Critter | 26/11/07 02:09

@critter When I was on Windows I'd swear by FeedDemon without a doubt! But now I prefer something that I can take with me I so it Google Reader all the way

# Posted By Andy J | 27/11/07 13:20

I use a Firefox extention called 'SAGE' to read RSS based blogs... Its quite awesome!...

http://sage.mozdev.org/install/

# Posted By Dav R | 27/03/08 08:40

I use FeedDemon and Newsgators service online. That means that I can read rss on my desktop and still access the same feeds from another computer when I need via newsgator.com.

I like not to have to reload a page or check a webpage to know that there are new posts, that's why I use FeedDemon.

# Posted By Markus Larsson | 09/06/08 14:01