Lightweight alternatives to FeedDemon

[Grorgy]

ohh the joy of calling 256 k slow lol, i tried to get google reader on 56k dialup, woeful, probably work ok on 264 k when i can get home (my fast connectiion lol), ive found either a separate reader (presently using greatnews a freeware offering) and using my yahoo for a few headlines seems ok, doesnt seem to have the long download and get ready time that google has.

[Dirhael]

Well, I would recommend you to check out Newzie. It's a great feed reader, has a really good interface & doesn't take much resources to run. If you like that, you might also want to check out their *fantastic* Ziepod if you listen to a lot of podcasts. Both programs are freeware, although there is a "+" version of Ziepod available (which is what I use).

[KenR]

Well, I would recommend you to check out Newzie...

-Dirhael (May 29, 2007, 06:23 PM)

Hi Dirhael. Although I use and really like FeedDemon, Newzie does look very nice at first glance. Most feed readers I try are off my computer within 10 minutes. I am going to give this one a good look though. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Ken

[tranglos]

Google Reader is an excellent alternative - I have my feeds mirrored there just in case I need to check them when I'm on another PC. However, for someone who has a slow connection (256 kbps) I find an offline app like FeedDemon way more responsive that Google Reader.

-nosh (May 28, 2007, 06:12 AM)

I hadn't considered that, but it seems Google has If you check out Google Reader now, it has a new "Offline" button. Apparently (I haven't tried it yet) it downloads the last 2,000 entries for offline reading.

[Curt]

"TM"??

This is obviously not good(TM)

-iphigenie (May 20, 2007, 09:44 AM)

In order to understand what y'all are saying, this not-an-English-man (: being me) will from time to time need to ask for explanations, please. This "TM" suffix I have made bold in iphigenie's post , what does it say? Not what they taught me in school, I guess?

Lightweight alternatives to FeedDemon

[Darwin]

I could be wrong in this case, but usually it means "trademark"...

[kartal]

Rssowl rocks. You can grab the latest dev builds from here

http://rssowl.pluginbuilder.org/latest/

I noticed RSSOwl version 2.0 is in development. They have a very informative five part flash demo (made in wink) up at http://boreal.rssowl.org/ . Some really interesting new features have been added (group tagging, smart saved searches as filters and much more). I think RSSOwl will be a really strong competitor to GreatNews in the freeware slot. I'm not sure how it compares with GreatNews resource wise though, since it uses Java.

-Nod5 (May 20, 2007, 04:32 AM)