In Reading Feeds
bluemist posted about reading feeds not too long ago, and I commented about using RSSOwl. The feature bluemist is looking for is simple, Search Folders on feed groups, which could be done on the server level; Animeblogger Antenna, but it is much simpler to do this on the client, where they are going to aggregate the feeds anyway.
I wasn’t positive of this feature in RSSOwl, but it is there, and highly customizable; highly (I searched for loli within specific folders, and found 12 results). To my disbelief, RSSOwl also now includes a feature which it lacked for so long, and which I stated was a drawback on bluemist’s blog, and that was item retention. RSSOwl does retain feeds! It does! I found this out while playing with Miletstone 8; I believe this was included in all milestone versions. So there is no need to worry about losing articles waiting to be read.
vs Liferea
Liferea is a lightweight, GTK+ reader that accomplishes these things will much greater simplicity than RSSOwl. Though I have literally just installed it, it seems very dependable and similar to the simplicity of SharpReader. Even though the search folders option of Liferea is not as extensive, I believe it would do the above job perfectly. At this time, the only drawback is that a Windows install may not be streamlined.
Until Liferea is confirmed for builds on Windows, I will maintain my suggestion of RSSOwl, as I test Liferea.
Ryan A
April 4th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
I use Netvibes as an online reader…..Eh, I guess I just use it more as a headline reader. I typically want to actually enter the blog to play around…I’m old school like that. :S
April 4th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
^^ understandable, Cool thing is that RSSOwl is totally integrated for that. It uses the default browser to render pages within the reader. So it is fully accessible. Liferea is not that way though.