Choosing A Reader
Ξ December 12th, 2008 | → 2 Comments |
∇ Fun, Tools | ∇ Google, Liferea, Reader, RSS, RSSOwl |
While on vacation, I like to spend a part of my time reading whichever blogs are currently subscribed in my RSS feed reader. On vacation for about a week, I’m still looking for a good offline RSS feed reader for Linux. An offline reader allows one to read the downloaded posts even when offline (e.g. on the train between employment and home). Actually, the choice shouldn’t be so hard because after a prelimirary survey, the only three promissing choices were Liferea, RSSOwl and, of course, Google Reader (offline using the Google Gears).
Liferea is built using GTK libraries and has some nice features, but a minimal experimentation session proved Liferea to be a sligthly unstable application (even when using the stable version). However, the advanced features, specially Google Reader synchronization (only available in the unstable version), make me consider using it as my official RSS reader.
On the other side, RSSOwl is a platform independent, supported by the Eclipse Rich Client Platform, reader with a lot of advanced features. Being a lot more stable that the previous reader, currently RSSOwl seems to be a good candidate.
Using Google Reader is certanly another good option, which became even more probable when I discovered that using Google Gears allowed to add offline behaviour to the original service.
The current choice, although not final, falls on to RSSOwl, but I’ll have to check the offline Google Reader feature.
