A change is a good as a rest

Out with the old, in with the not-so-new.

I’ve been a long-term user of Bloglines. I loved being able to access my feeds from any computer, including my PDA. The PDA is no more, I got annoyed that you couldn’t read individual articles, and after stumbling across Liferea I switched. I switched because I could read individual articles, and I was now only using one computer on a regular basis.

I didn’t run into any glaring issues with Liferea, but because I make heavy use of tabs in Firefox I never became comfortable with having my feed reader outside my browser.

The news that Google Reader now supported the Wii Internet Channel piqued my curiosity and I decided to sample their wares once again.

So far I am liking it – they’ve improved the interface since I tried it last. I’ve not tried it through the Wii, nor from my mobile, but it is nice to know the functionality is there if I want it.

OK, so it is not really any different to using Bloglines but at this point I’ll refer you back to the title of this entry…

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Published:: 5.9.07 / 12pm

Category:: Linux

Tristan 5.9.07 / 12pm

I was a Google Reader user until recently when I stumbled across rss2email (rss2email.infogami.com/, available in Ubuntu). Since I already have my email kept on an IMAP server run by myself, it is really nice when coupled with procmail to have my feeds integrated into every email client I use (Thunderbird, Evolution, Squirrelmail, mobile).

Google Reader is nice, but it seems slow ONLY when I want it to be fast (most of the time, it is good, but sometimes it slows way down when I am speed reading). It also really slowed down my old laptop, and sometimes my mouse clicks would not register.

amgadpasha 5.9.07 / 12pm

i used to use liferea in my desktop and laptop, and i liked it alot, but i always had the problem in syncing my read items between my home machine, work machine, and laptop. i finally realized that i had to use an online reader.. Google reader is becoming very powerful, stable, and cool new features like tags and sharing, its only problem is that sometimes it ignores your reading stats for some items, but i think this is more or less network problems..

Arny 5.9.07 / 12pm

Guys, I don’t know, but Google Reader work normal, maybe little slow, but just little…

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