In Search of a Desktop Feed Reader Client

July 14th, 2006

I posted the other day about unsubscribing from blogs because I was getting only partial feeds and no link. I have come to realize that the bloggers in question are not to blame and it is really a function of my feed reader client. On an average day I read between 20-50 posts. I don’t necessarily read the whole post. I usually skim the article and if they are sending me partial feeds it takes me out of flow.

I have been managing and reading feeds using Mozilla Thunderbird. It has worked for me for a number of reasons but for me the killer is that I can organized feeds into category folders instead of having a huge list of feeds organized by title or feed URL. As a stop-gap it would be good if Thunderbird could determine if it was a full or partial feed and then attach the permalink to the bottom of the post so I don’t have to drop down the header to find the link and click on it.

Ideally what I want is a feed reading application that doesn’t require me to have to switch applications while reading. Either Thunderbird could further integrate its HTML support and Flash as well have the links to feeds open in the preview pane instead of having to switch to Firefox.

I know that there a number of desktop feed readers as well as some browser integrated readers. Which ones work the best and why.

As I write this post I have downloaded and installed Feedreader 3.05 and it looks promising. I have also attempted to download News Gator’s Feed Demon but for some reason when I click to download on their site I receive a JavaScript prompt for a username and password.

I’ll post soon with the results.

Thanks Jules for making me try something new.

Tags: Feedreader, FeedDemon, Thunderbird, blog reader, feed reader, productivity, Julian Rickards, tools

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1. Jack Brewster | July 14th, 2006 at 12:57 pm

Jay,

It looks like there’s a permission issue on the FeedDemon download file. Our server admins are looking into this and it should be corrected shortly. I’ll be sure to post here when it’s fixed.

Jack Brewster
Technical Support
NewsGator Technologies
2. jay | July 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pm

Jack,

Thanks for the response. I didn’t post this as a criticism as I honestly want to try out FeedDemon. I have however, configured FeedReader to my liking so I now have a bias.

All the best,
Jay
3. Jack Brewster | July 14th, 2006 at 2:23 pm

The link should be working correctly now:
http://www.newsgator.com/download/FeedDemon/FeedDemonInstall.exe

Hopefully we still stand a chance in your eval.

If you run into any problems, or just have questions or feedback, be sure to email us at support@newsgator.com
4. Rudi | July 29th, 2006 at 9:00 am

I bought FeedDemon a year ago. It’s the best Feedreader I think.

Another good choice is the free Tristana Reader:

http://www.eisbrecher.net/wordpress/?p=117

Like it?
5. jay | July 29th, 2006 at 9:15 am

Rudi,

I hadn’t heard of the Tristana Reader. On the surface it doesn’t look all that different than FeedReader. I suspect though, that it may be easier to customize for reading.

If you noted that I hade made at least two attempts to download and install FeedDemon and had no success. I know it is not typical of NewsGator from my research into it but I just didn’t have time to download and install until it worked. I thought I would give it another chance down the road.

All the best,

Jay
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