Comments on: Reading RSS Feeds – Google Reader vs Omea vs Mozilla Thunderbird

By: Rachel R.

Rachel R. — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:25:11 +0000

I LOVE Thunderbird – for precisely the reason you hate it. lol I don’t want to have to remember to go online to check my feeds, nor do I want to have to click through on every single post I want to read. This way, when I’m checking my email, my feeds are all right there, too, and I can read them just as easily as my email if/when I want to. I would definitely not bother with Thunderbird as a feed reader if I didn’t have any plans to use it for email, though.

Two other things, though, for sheer clarification purposes:

1. The feed is not still there after you “remove” it. The FOLDER is still there, with the posts you have already downloaded. So you can unsubscribe from any further posts without losing the ones you already have in your folder. You can delete the folder pretty easily if you don’t want it, either.

2. I’m pretty sure there is an option to download the summary only, ‘though I’m not positive because I’ve never wanted to do that.

By: Vijay

Vijay — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:15:32 +0000

I feel liferea 1.5.5 (compiled) + Google reader is the best thing that can happen to the world of RSS. liferea allows you to read your feed offline and when you are online it syncs up your list with Google reader so that all the feeds you have read or deleted are synced back to google.

Instructions for installation are here.

http://72.14.235.104/search?q=cache:ZGkNPckz1XYJ:www.rolfs.no/2008/06/05/building-liferea-153-from-targz/+“You+must+have+either+GtkHTML2,+XulRunner,+Mozilla+or+WebKit”&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=in&client=firefox-a

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:44:02 +0000

I must be the odd one out but Thunderbird blows Google Reader out of the water when it comes to RSS feeds!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:32:45 +0000

Well, I haven’t used Pageflakes in a couple of weeks because I wanted to see how Google Reader held up to my needs. So far it’s doing very well, but I think I’ll check out the other ones you review here.

(and you’re welcome for the warm and fuzzies : )

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:25:08 +0000

I checked out this PageFlakes. It reminds me of iGoogle’s homepage. Of course, it was probably around BEFORE iGoogle so yeah. Looks nice too. Do you still use it?

(And BTW, gotta drop a thanks for subscribing, makes me feel all warm inside). (#):)

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:14:46 +0000

You know, we could be twins. I, too, wrote a comparison on Google Reader recently but did so with Pageflakes.

I’ve subscribed to your feed and will be returning. It’s also time for another Drum Corps post of mine where I highlight blogs, and will include yours!

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:43:19 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Ram!

By: ram

ram — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:09:22 +0000

I feel Google Reader is the best but i haven’t tried other web readers. Before shifting to Google Reader i used Feedreader, this is also good one but not web based.

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:39:20 +0000

While Google reader is nice, personally, I have a million Google accounts floating around…Not by choice, more out of necessity. Even though I could just pick one account for Reader and just use that, it would still have to suck to have to log out of that account and log back in another. (But again, that’s more on me and is probably not a problem for most other people).

I actually checked out Sage like Brad suggested, and I really like it. No accounts and online! Best of all words eh LISTIKAL? (#):)

By: LISTIKAL

LISTIKAL — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:14:47 +0000

Online readers are far and away the best. Google Reader is my choice as well. Two big convenient factors:

1. I can use my Google Account which means one less account to worry about.
2. I can use my Google Account Anywhere.

Good comparison anyway.