If you use RSS, Google Reader is among the best there is. So good, in fact, that I imported all my old Bloglines feeds. The interface, the starring of important feed items, the sharing — all of it is addictive.
Recently, I started using the Vienna client on OSX, which looks good but it’s a pain to manage the feed listings in two places — Google Reader, and local Vienna. Yes, you can import your Google Reader OPML into Vienna, but to have them synced, you need to import it often.
But that’s a manual sync and not very useful.
If Vienna’s user forums are any indication, the automatic synchronization between Google Reader and Vienna is among the top requested features, and I can understand why.
Well, I won’t be waiting for Vienna anymore, as the Adobe AIR Google Reader client is here, and it works like a charm!
The interface is very Mac OSX like, very clean and nifty. Just set up your Google email and password:
And you are ready to roll. Of course, it doesn’t (yet) have the functionality to tweak font sizes or flag important items or share — i.e., a complete desktop alternative to Vienna or Google Reader, but this is a fantastic start.
This post is tagged adobe, AIR, Google, RSS, Tools/Reviews
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Another alternative is running Google Reader inside of Fluid. Userscripts can be applied to tweak it! All of the functionality of Google reader in firefox but in a standalone SSB.
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