RSS Readers
Well, Google has this new thing called Google Gears which converts Web Apps (think Google Docs) to offline applications, and I like this because sure MS Office is the best Office software, but sometimes (like tonight) I use Google spreadsheets for making lists, as it’s safe in case the computer goes missing or I need to access the list from another computer, as I typed I looked up Google Gears and the first hurdle was that you MUST use Firefox for Mac if you want to use Google Gears, the second hurdle is that there are no Web Apps except Google Reader (an RSS feedreader) that use Google Gears, so for experimentation, I installed Google Gears, went to Google Reader.
Google Reader has been written about by Styleygeek at his blog, and its a good post, but my observations of it include:
- It does a good job importing an OPML file that my existing RSS reader (Vienna) exports.
- It’ll keep my feeds synced across multiple Macs
- It’ll work offline!
But is it better than Vienna?
Mother Night