FeedDemon 3.0 Beta Syncs To Google Reader

And so does RSS Bandit since October last: [rssbandit.org]

Not to say that it's better than FeedDemon (or worse, for that matter), but just so you know there *is* an alternative out there.

And, as some have already pointed out, Google Reader _is_ a pretty good reader in its own right.

I still prefer Firefox's RSS Ticker extension to any standalone RSS reader on the market ... the scrolling awesomeness at the bottom of the window makes it feel you're witnessing breaking news or something. Adds a bit of spice to my day. =)

JaYp146

All I have to say is "Yay FeedDemon" (hence the avatar :P)

I find it a lot more responsive than an web based reader, and it's fantastic for offline use.

Before a flight, sync up my Eee using free wifi, then enjoy my feeds on the airplane.

Why bother with a client to read RSS? The majesty of Google Reader is that it is web-based.

Mike Tickle Jr.

Where can i found something like that for Mac OS X or Linux? And with a bloglines-sync, too, if possible.

Tempura

Sounds great, but I have a question. Does this work at an application level (The FeedDemon application "pulls" data from Google Reader), at a server level (Newsgator.com "pulls" the data from Google Reader)? I like how Newsgator clients look & feel on all their flavors (I used to use FeedDemon on my main PC, NetNewsWire on my secondary Mac computer and NewsGator Go! to have my feeds on my Smartphone, this is, until I changed to Google Reader), so this would be really useful for me if I could have all my devices synced with Google Reader.

Federico Guardia Clemenceau

I still have concerns about giving FeedDemon (or any 3rd party, for that matter) my Google credentials; it defies every notion of security that I have.

LesterGaze

Is FeedDemon portable, or is there a way to make it portable?

This is awesome. Honestly not the biggest fan of google reader's google gears functionality. Really not a fan of having to explicitly click a button to go on and off-line. So for getting feeds when I know I'll be offline for a while, this seems like a great idea. Is there something for macs that can sync with google reader?

hey is there an app that will text me a few top headlines of RSS feeds at a certain time every day?

dantheman12

Excellent :D

Toufic J Nassar

I've heard people talk about waiting for it to sync with Google Reader, and as an avid GReader user, I have to ask - What's so good about this that you can't do in GReader?

Does it have the option to filter key words, whether in the title, body, or url?

I find this feature very useful. Lets say I am subscribed to several movie blog sites, and I decide to create a new feed that pulls in all the posts that have "star trek" in it. It's a big time saver.

The only one that I have tried that has this is "Feedreader", but it's buggy and slow at times. So I am looking at alternatives.

Can someone recommend some light software for doing this pretty much automatically: 1) I set up feeds that contain audio podcasts 2) It periodically downloads those podcasts into a specified folder 3) When a specific removable device (memory drive) is plugged in those podcasts are moved into a specified folder on it

EdithBabalique

My biggest disappointment of the day so far: clicking "Show Dinosaurs" and not seeing any dinosaurs.

mlynn5

@[www.newsgator.com]

But I don't think it has the Reader integration yet.

Hmm... I wonder if there's plans to put that into NetNewsWire.

-Adam

@minivolt: FeedDemon enables you to subscribe to a number of different "search feeds" (keyword searches on Twitter, Google, YouTube, del.icio.us, etc.). You can also create a "watch" which tells you about posts in feeds you're subscribed to which contain your keywords.

@RoyS: Google Reader is a great web-based feed reader and I certainly won't knock it here. However, because it's web-based it can't access feeds that lie behind your firewall (ie: Intranet feeds), nor does it support authenticated feeds.

FeedDemon supports authenticated feeds, and being desktop-based it can also handle Intranet feeds. So, FeedDemon enables you to keep track of feeds both inside and outside your "local zone."

nbradbury

@LesterGaze: I certainly understand your concerns about sharing your Google login. Keep in mind, though, that your Google login is *never* uploaded to us - it's stored (encrypted) on your local system, and is only used to authenticate Google Reader requests.

nbradbury

Re credentials, I could see doing this if you had your rss going to a minor google account, but I've been getting mine with my main one.

VayaConQueso

@RoyS: I subscribe to lots of different music blogs and don't care about 95% of the content contained within, although they are useful to me. FeedDemon's Watch feature allows me to filter those feeds (and those feeds only) for the keyword important to me. Google Reader doesn't do this natively, and the closest workaround I've fond (bookmarking search results) doesn't update automatically, but FeedDemon does. For folks like me, that's a very valuble feature.

(Thanks for your work, @nbradbury!)

Thaddaeus Hussein Edwards

@Mike Tickle Jr.:

Mike, give NewsGator (web based) a try. You won't use the ugly Google Reader anymore. And together with FeedDemon it's some excellent solution

Anyone got FeedDemon running on Wine?

Yes, it would be really nice if it was done at the server level. I like using NewsGator Go! on my windows mobile device so it would be awesome if that would sync with my google reader account.

ApolloOrmberg

When you do GReader sync, does NetNewsWire on the iPhone become useless? Is there a way to sync to both GReader and Newsgator or is there a way to make NetNewsWire on the iPhone sync to GReader as well?

SubhagyaBabba

I tried to sync FeedDemon with my Google Reader account. But it failed again and again. The "Test connection" option shows OK. What's the problem?

VerdaWorm

@minealone6: Yes and no.

You can move the folder with your downloaded/local feeds, so all your settings and articles are portable.

But FeedDemon sadly renders it's views to HTML pages, using the IE engine. So it needs access to IE and the local systemdir to store temporary files. You can see how this also has some serious implications for your privacy, because all the viewed articles are stored into the local tempdir.

Miletos

Anything do this for mac?

mcmachete

@carleeto: I believe FeedDemon relies on the Trident rendering engine. Don't know if that frigs up Wine or not.

@joelena: You could also use just about any desktop RSS reader (GreatNews, FeedDemon, RSSBandit, RSSOwl, FeedReader) for the pod-catching, not just Juice or Ziepod. Juice would probably be the lightest, though.

@EdithBabalique: I don't know of any "light" software to do this - only media library apps seem to be able to automatically sync to a device, so you're stuck with iTunes or MediaMonkey, J River Media Jukebox (the lightest), or WinAmp.

You could also use Juice or Ziepod for the "pod-catching" and have it automatically add to a Windows Media Player playlist (or to any playlist), which would then sync automatically using WMP (or any of the above programs).

It's incomprehensible to me that MS hasn't added podcast fetching to WMP.

The lightest option would be to use AutoHotKey. There's a script posted in the AHK forums, but you'd have to be comfortable with modifying that script and learning a little AHK.

@minealone6: It's confusing, but basically NewsGator, FeedDemon, and NetNewsWire are all the same. So they're all synced with one account.

There's an iPhone app, mobile app, and you can check feeds through their site too...

[www.newsgator.com]

This is one of the best update I was looking for. Feeddemon is my fav feed reader and I always missed its synchronization with Google reader. Glad that it's here now :)

Harsh Agarwal

"You have existing subscriptions in Google Reader. Would you like FeedDemon to remove them before the conversion?"
i click no, i want my Google Reader subscriptions in FeedDemon. i don't have any FeedDemon subscriptions.

"FeedDemon was unable to convert your subscriptions"

Corey Bounds