What about a linux-desktop-reader that syncs with Newsgator or Google Reader or whatever?

iamunhoz

My favorite desktop rss feeder was Sharpreader I think, nowadays I read everything offline on my Tungsten T3 using SunriseXP and the Plucker app.

The bonus is that it works for web sites as well as rss feeds, and you can specify link depth, whether to allow pictures, picture size and quality, etc.

daddydave

newsgator never worked that well with me for rendering html...

intravnews is what i use instead.

tedgotsoul

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I'm a huge fan of the Newsgator apps; I've been using FeedDemon for years (yes, I actually paid for it, and for NetNewsWire for my Mac, too). The Outlook tool isn't my favorite; it's a little sluggish (at least with Outlook 07), but if you live in Outlook, and also use the other NG products, it beats Outlook's integrated RSS reader.
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marc

@anthonylitz and @kspraydad4:

Haha! I was thinking the same thing.

daddydave

I'm sticking to Bloglines Beta thank you... The only thing I'd like is a combined feed but it serves my needs nonetheless. I don't deal with 1k+ items per day or so; it's maximum 300'ish..

Leafy

@anthonylitz: Yep. [en.wikipedia.org]

I also don't like firms with REAL in their name.

/shudder

kspraydad4

@kspraydad4: lol, yeah wasn't that some of the original spyware in like '98 :)

anthonylitz

I have an inborn fear of any computer service/program with GATOR in the name. Is it just me?

kspraydad4

It appears as a separate mail box and doesn't go near your inbox

nakedcode

Is this really a suggestion to put more stuff into our Outlook inboxes, when half the time at lifehacker, you are telling us how to empty our inboxes?

My feed reader can regularly have over 1000 unread entries. I don't want them added to my email inbox. Oh No.

andysnat

I've been using NewsGator Inbox about a month. It didn't interfere with Outlook 2003 and it followed the UI guidelines quite well. Most articles were easily accessed and read. However, I've uninstalled it and gone back to FeedDemon. NGI worked well for what it was, but it wasn't quite the same experience as using a full-fledged reader. If you don't need a lot of "power" features in your reader, it's a good choice.

ericc

I have been using Newsgator Inbox ever since feeddemon became free. Basically I was a goggle reader user, but my Archos 605 WiFi media player just refuses to render it right so I was on the look out for a replacement.
Spotted this...
Now I use Feed demon on my laptop and home PC (with Feedstation to download podcasts), NewsGator Inbox on my PC at work and NewsGator Online on my Archos and they all keep nicely in sync. All in, NewsGator's stuff keeps me reading my feeds where ever and when ever I want and at the price I want... zero!
Happy days :-)

nakedcode

With the release of the Google Reader API, are there any desktop readers that integrate with GR? I'm guessing not, or I'd've heard of one by now, but I'm still hoping.

I can view the RSS of my Google Reader feeds in Firefox and stuff, but I can't mark them as read or star them that way. At least not in a way that Google Reader would notice.

skadus

@t2technology: I'm confused... or maybe you are. Desktop-based readers don't necessarily limit you to one computer, particularly not the NewGator readers, all of which sync with each other over the web.

Adam Pash

@Norcross: I'd say the main benefit is the syncing with other NewsGator apps. That way you could keep your work RSS in Outlook synced up with your FeedDemon reader at home, for example. NewsGator Inbox also has some more full-featured options, like attention sorting and other things like that.

Adam Pash

How many people actually find this useful? I don't know many people that only have one computer. Especially people that read Lifehacker.

Just a question. Please don't flame.

t2technology

Outlook 2007 have RSS integrated into it. Anything beneficial about this over the built in version?

Norcross