![]() This make it possible to load feeds in from FireFox via the Feed Your Reader extension. This again is one step above Thunderbird as it only has marking items or individual feeds as read. Matching NetNewsWire you can mark everything as read really easily, on an item, feed folder or global level.This is something that Thunderbird frustratingly doesn't have. The ability to look at the data for all feeds in a folder by just clicking on the containing folder.FeedReader has the same simplicity that I'm used to in NetNewsWire.I have tried FeedReader in the past but I recently decided to download it and try it again having noticed that it is now on version 3.0.*. Up until now I have mainly been using Thunderbird on Windows as this more closely matched what I am looking for. I have tried other readers such as RSSOwl, Feed Demon but none of them come close to NetNewsWire for being as easy to use and having the feature set that I have been looking for. I don't subscribe to so many feeds that that's a big deal (though it was a bit of a pain), but many people subscribe to way too many for that to be a workable solution.I have been looking for an equivalent for the mac only Feed reader software NetNewsWire on Windows and I think I have found something that comes the closest yet.įeedReader is a free RSS reader for Windows written by Toomas Toots. It doesn't support OPML or any other method of importing subscriptions - you have to enter each feed, one at a time.For password protected feeds, the passwords are stored as plain text in the database, so if any of those are really sensitive, it wouldn't be a good idea to run it on a shared server that wasn't extremely well locked down.If they subscribe to any of the same feeds, at the very least there'd be duplicate data in the MySQL plugin's database. It doesn't support multiple users, so if multiple people wanted to use it, they'd each have to have separate installations of everything except CaRP. ![]() None of that's horribly daunting to someone familiar with such things, but not everyone is. You have to install CaRP Evolution and its MySQL plugin, alter the MySQL plugin's database, and set up a cron job, which either has to run as the same user as your webserver or has to trigger a web script or you have to use MySQL caching in CaRP. There are a few things keeping me from releasing this as a product at the moment: The only thing that feels lacking is a few keyboard shortcuts, which I could probably add if I decide I really want to. My new feed reader doesn't have all the bells and whistles, but that's okay, because I don't need bells and whistles - I just need a feed reader that does the things I want the way I want them done. With a web-based solution, that's all automatic. But especially now that I'm seriously investigating Ubuntu (Linux) as an alternative to Mac OS, that solution just isn't up to snuff.īy the way, there are 3 things that need to be kept in synch: my subscription list, flagged items, and which items have been read. In the past, it means I've used NetNewsWire on my main computer and Google Reader everywhere else. I use 4 different computers regularly depending on where I am, so that's pretty important. My only complaint about NetNewsWire is that I can't keep synched between multiple computers. With CaRP Evolution, I get password protection and by setting up my own polling schedule, I get frequent updates of everything. my subscription Tweet stream and tech support feeds :-) I'm guessing that they update commonly read feeds faster than those only subscribed to by one or two people (eg. my Tweet subscription stream and tech support feeds), and it's sometimes extremely slow to update feeds. My three biggest complaints about Google Reader are that it doesn't use a 3-pane view, doesn't support password protected feeds (eg. I think this is the first time I've used that plugin for a real project. It uses CaRP Evolution's MySQL plugin to store parsed RSS feed items in a database. Yesterday, I decided it was high time to scratch an old itch, so I built myself an RSS feed reader.
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