I really like the Google Reader for reading feeds I am interested in. But from time to time I do check out the desktop feed readers to see if they got any cool new features.
They mostly don’t. I am still looking for a feed reader desktop or online which groups together or threads similar blog posts. I also want to be able to ignore such threads. Kind of like what Gmail has done with its conversations.
Anyway there is a new version of RSSBandit, the Dot Net based feed reader. Read more about it here. The features I like are the comment watching, option for opening tabs in background (like Firefox) and session saver like functionality.
Then the Java based BlogBridge has version 4.0 out. Performance is mentioned as a major improvement. I checked it out. It is very very fast. If the fonts looked a bit better I would go for it. The other feature I really like is complete synchronization across multiple computers including read items and preferences. The best part it that it is free.
I still will be using Google Reader though…
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- Trying out the Java RSS Aggregator: BlogBridge
- There has to be a better feed reader!
- More thoughts on Feed Reading
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- Yahoo Desktop Search