Update to In Search of a Desktop Feed Reader

February 2nd, 2007

A while ago–okay a long while ago–I posted about my search for a desktop Feed Reader application. I thought I should give an update since the situation has changed.

New Years and a Hard Drive Failure Brought the Winds of Change

Beginning in the new year, after the release of IE7 and FeedReader’s latest version (3.07 at the time), I noticed a significant performance slowdown with FeedReader. It was taking painful amounts of time to load posts and render them for reading as well as their being a change to the interface. Since I read on average 50-100 posts each day it was taking longer and longer to do this in FeedReader and eventually I gave up. I stopped reading and stopped getting current and new information on the fields that I crave information on.

My New Solution

My new solution is Google Reader. I had at one time decided that hosted feed readers were too slow and not as convenient as using a desktop client but after my problems with FeedReader my hunger for my feeds returned and I remembered that Google Reader was part of my Google Account features and decided to give it a whirl.

Faster and Functional

Whirl it does! Not only can I read posts faster, I now have the ability to tag them, forward, star and save them. Google Reader is not only fast but an all around great application. And, if I have another hard drive failure, I don’t need to worry about losing or having to somehow restore the desktop client database (who knows how tricky that might be). I now spend far less time reading many more posts and can send posts of interest off to friends.

Getting Even More From Google

One further enhancement has been to use a Google Gadget to display my GMail, GoogleReader and Calendar all on my Customized Google Page so I have that set as my “Home” page in FireFox and I never am more than a click away from an excellent control panel.

The next step?

I am likely going to move my domain email (via Google Apps) to GMail so that I can read, manage and post all messages using GMail instead of using my local email client, Thunderbird. Again, if another hard drive failure comes my way and I can’t recover my email messages, I won’t be stuck seeking old copies etc.

On a related note: Yesterday I talked about my quest for an Integrated, Hosted Contact Management System.

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