Comments on: The Unofficial Google Reader Notifier

By: Guillaumeb

Guillaumeb — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:05:40 +0000

Bloglines forever over here. Clean and straightforward

By: ktolis

ktolis — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:29:08 +0000

I was referring to memory/speed :)

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:24:02 +0000

“How does Newsfire behave in contrast to those?” It has great design.

By: ktolis

ktolis — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:51:03 +0000

so why Newsfire at all. Why not NetNewWire (I ditched it because it was a memory hog with @100 feeds and 2 months backlog). I use now gregarius. It’s online and fast. If the server is fast then it gets also faster the results. Searchable too. How does Newsfire behave in contrast to those?

By: oj

oj — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:09:18 +0000

Yes you are right on having your reader anywhere you have a computer
and internet. But I maintain google reader is snail sloooow.

I recognized that advantage 10 years ago when hotmail first came
out. Hotmail was not owned by MSN at the time!!

I have had the same email address in hotmail for 10 years even
changing to various ISP ’s did not change my email address and of
course any where I went my email came to me.

By: josue

josue — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:55:09 +0000

oj, if you used more than one computer you would not use newsfire.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:48:27 +0000

oj, you’re right – Newsfire definitely has more features and capabilities being a separate application. The attraction to gReader for me is the ability to have it work on any computer that I’m on.

By: oj

oj — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 21:45:34 +0000

Paul

Newsfire is so much better than Google Reader. Google Reader could not handle 1500 feeds so I opted to weed them down. After carefully deleting down to 500 feeds, ALL of the feeds disappeared. So I am going to stick with Newsfire. Its faster than google reader.
Why.
1. It works
2. Built in video and audio player and option to add to itunes or not.
3. Direct launch from newsfire into safari.
4.Smart feeds, folders etc etc

I am totally put off by Google reader