When I started reading blogs I had a short list of blogs to check on every once in a while. Few months later, and the list is longer and the time needed is much more than I have. What to do? Turn to feeds reader.
As I'm using different PCs at different places at different times, I thought a web-based feeds reader would be perfect. So, I started using Kinja, from the nanopublishing pioneers Gawker Media. It has a cool design, but it has a major problem. It is not supported by most of the blogs I read. It is a shame that Kinja can't read the more popular forms of feeds.
I gave up Kinja. I started using Feedster. Unlike Kinja, it supports the popular feeds, but it has a poor design, and it may refuse the addition of new feeds with no obvious reasons. I decided to give up all the web-based feed readers and turn to something else.
I read that Firefox 0.9.3+ could run as a newsreader. I already have 0.9.2 and I was not intending to update it until the release of version 1.0. Because Firefox has a weird problem. Whenever you update the browser, you have to reinstall all the extensions and themes, which is something boring and time-consuming.
As I had no more choices, I clicked to Google to look for a free feeds reader. And as usual, Google has the answer. FeedReader is an open-source lightweight feeds reader, and it's free. However, I liked the way of Kinja that shows the latest posts of different blogs at the same page.
I'm now waiting for the release of Firefox 1.0 at November to try out its newsreader. If I did not like it, I think I'll stick to FeedReader.
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As I'm using different PCs at different places at different times, I thought a web-based feeds reader would be perfect. So, I started using Kinja, from the nanopublishing pioneers Gawker Media. It has a cool design, but it has a major problem. It is not supported by most of the blogs I read. It is a shame that Kinja can't read the more popular forms of feeds.
I gave up Kinja. I started using Feedster. Unlike Kinja, it supports the popular feeds, but it has a poor design, and it may refuse the addition of new feeds with no obvious reasons. I decided to give up all the web-based feed readers and turn to something else.
I read that Firefox 0.9.3+ could run as a newsreader. I already have 0.9.2 and I was not intending to update it until the release of version 1.0. Because Firefox has a weird problem. Whenever you update the browser, you have to reinstall all the extensions and themes, which is something boring and time-consuming.
As I had no more choices, I clicked to Google to look for a free feeds reader. And as usual, Google has the answer. FeedReader is an open-source lightweight feeds reader, and it's free. However, I liked the way of Kinja that shows the latest posts of different blogs at the same page.
I'm now waiting for the release of Firefox 1.0 at November to try out its newsreader. If I did not like it, I think I'll stick to FeedReader.
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