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anrxc

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-03-22

Posts: 834

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Agreed, Akregator is the best. Lucky us kdemod allows to maintain a minimal KDE installation (other top notch apps from KDE that make it worth doing are Okular and ofcourse Amarok).

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leo2501

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-07-07

Posts: 658

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Well today i decided to try a couple of this "rss readers" so i tryed:

- rss2html: nice to see one rss page at the time, but not so usefull to replace google reader, ideal for scripts and such simple tasks

- kirss: very wonderful, it produces an html page with your rss feeds from ~/.kirss/config, very much lightweight than google reader

- snownews: my new rss reader... seems what i was looking for, ncurses and not so many dependencyes, simple and nice, and very very fast

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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

If only liferea could sync itself with google reader, it would be perfect. Does anybody know if liferea 1.6.0rc1 can do it? I'll try it later.

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firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

Posts: 1,542

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Do any of the text based feed readers sync with google reader? It doesn't look like it, from what I've seen so far....

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andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

It seems that liferea 1.6.0-rc1 supports full sync with google reader, though it's a little bit buggy yet (if you read a feed while the sync is being made, this feed will be remarked as unread).

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jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I'm pretty happy with the "Sage Too" Firefox Add-On.

.:B:.

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Another vote for Canto here, I threw out all other RSS readers I tried after a few minutes, but this one stuck. It's ncurses, so light (and visually appealing against my zen garden background ).

What I like even more about it is the ability to filter stuff out (e.g. pesky advertisements some sites like to put in their RSS feed), the powerful (yet horribly ugly) raw python you can drop in the configuration file (I don't know python, but I have a hunch i'm learning some this way ), and part of that power allows to filter out already read items (which other clients probably support too, but I didn't dig in as deep).

Up till now it seems like it does only those pesky basic terminal colours (no support for 256 colours afaict) but I managed to get it looking sassy (in the eye of the beholder right ).

Only thing that's not cool is, when you make it display in multiple columns, it will mess up scrolling (e.g. going to the end of the first column but not scrolling in the terminal so the cursor disappears from the screen and pops up at the top of the next column after a while). I believe that's being worked on though for version 0.7.

Edit: 0.6.10 (and maybe earlier) already supports 256 colours, the online doc just didn't say anything about it - till now .

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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I used to use rss2email, since I spent so much time in my mail anyway. It worked well, and I didn't miss anything.
I ended up with a bit of 'digital debt' that made me feel like I should read all my news, instead of just what I wanted to. So I have been trying out a few desktop news readers lately.

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rwd

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Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 664

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I'm not really into rss, but I use the feedbar Firefox extension. It just basically shows Live Bookmarks in the sidebar. It has not as many features as the 'Brief' extenson but it is cleaner looking.

With this tweak in userChrome.css you can remove the sidebar width restriction to make reading in the sidebar a little easier:

#sidebar {
  max-width: none !important;
  min-width: 0px !important;
}

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dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I'm pretty happy with the "Sage Too" Firefox Add-On.

Me too. It's pretty much what's making me stick with Firefox these days. I don't really see the point in standalone readers, and FF's Live Bookmarks are hopeless. Putting feeds in a sidebar is obvious; I don't know why more browsers don't do it by default.

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Vintendo

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 375

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I'm pretty happy with the "Sage Too" Firefox Add-On.

Me too. It's pretty much what's making me stick with Firefox these days. I don't really see the point in standalone readers, and FF's Live Bookmarks are hopeless. Putting feeds in a sidebar is obvious; I don't know why more browsers don't do it by default.

Ehm.... Opera?

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dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 559

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I'm pretty happy with the "Sage Too" Firefox Add-On.

Me too. It's pretty much what's making me stick with Firefox these days. I don't really see the point in standalone readers, and FF's Live Bookmarks are hopeless. Putting feeds in a sidebar is obvious; I don't know why more browsers don't do it by default.

Ehm.... Opera?

I didn't say no browsers do it by default.

To be honest though, I wasn't aware that Opera had something like that. And I actually used it for a while.

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brisbin33

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From: boston, ma

Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

wow canto is pretty sweet, i did have to install python-chardet and then cp -r /usr/lib/python2.5/.../chardet to /usr/lib/python2.6/.../chardet to get it to start though.  will that cause problems?  is there some 'import from old version' line i could've added to canto/cfg.py instead?

edit: nvm recent python-chardet upgrade fixed this.

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onguarde

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Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 144

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Are there any real "offline" RSS readers that isn't web based?

Offline ones would offer real speed boosts. Pages saved in Scrapbook certainly takes faster to open.

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Are there any real "offline" RSS readers that isn't web based?

Offline ones would offer real speed boosts. Pages saved in Scrapbook certainly takes faster to open.

If I understand correctly , RSS feeds do not contain html content directly . They provide links to pages (the pages are not contained in the feed) .

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SamC

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From: Calgary

Registered: 2008-05-13

Posts: 611

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

Actually, many RSS feeds have html content in them. Sometimes it's just a summary, and sometimes it isn't there, but it is entirely possible to do so. Just have a look at the source of an RSS feed.

Gigamo

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Registered: 2008-01-19

Posts: 394

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I use raggle. Very convenient console-based RSS feed reader, written in Ruby.

Vintendo

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 375

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I am currently using google reader because I use multiple feeds and this way they are synchronized. I am waiting for imap for rss

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rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

rssowl works for me. it's java, so many of you will cry about it ^^

MarcosRoriz

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 31

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I use thunderbird for my emails, calendar AND rss management
Thunderbird It's THE client for those things. I wonder why people preffer web apps, maybe It's because they can't config their email with Thunderbird??
I tried using web apps but they all suck due to the fact that you cant acess your data when you're offline. And yes, most of the time that  I'm using my notebook outside my home I dont have internet
By the way I need to retry to use Google Gears, last time I didn't have a good time on it.

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livibetter

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From: Taipei

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 95

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I use and have to stay with Google Reader because I have nearly 200 subscriptions. Any desktop reader would need to spend lots of time for updating. I like Google Reader, but I prefer a CLI reader. So, I am hoping Google can officially release the API (there is an unofficial one) and someone will write a CLI reader based on the API.

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I use and have to stay with Google Reader because I have nearly 200 subscriptions. Any desktop reader would need to spend lots of time for updating. I like Google Reader, but I prefer a CLI reader. So, I am hoping Google can officially release the API (there is an unofficial one) and someone will write a CLI reader based on the API.

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Besides, one of my feeds can reach up to 300 new items/day. So I'd need to keep my reader on 24/7 if I wanted to receive all of them. A good API would be nice, as I could store feeds if I need to read them offline and it would be simpler to filter them, I guess. This same news site have news about politics, soap-operas, sports, and I don't want to read about them all.

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MarcosRoriz

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 31

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I use and have to stay with Google Reader because I have nearly 200 subscriptions. Any desktop reader would need to spend lots of time for updating. I like Google Reader, but I prefer a CLI reader. So, I am hoping Google can officially release the API (there is an unofficial one) and someone will write a CLI reader based on the API.

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Besides, one of my feeds can reach up to 300 new items/day. So I'd need to keep my reader on 24/7 if I wanted to receive all of them. A good API would be nice, as I could store feeds if I need to read them offline and it would be simpler to filter them, I guess. This same news site have news about politics, soap-operas, sports, and I don't want to read about them all.

Woot, you guys sure read some popular feeds :S
Now I get it, It cause of the volume ppl preffer web readers.

But the fact that Thunderbird can combine email+calendar+rss makes a monster kill.
Btw, Going to retry google gears. Last Time wasn't working that good.
Probably you guys use gears, right?

andre.ramaciotti

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 649

Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I can't, I use a 64 bit system, and apparently Gears don't work with 64bit.

From your screenshot I imagine you're Brazilian too, right? The news site in question is folhaonline, but AFAIK there's no way to sign only some categories. I hate coming back from college, seeing there's 30 new feeds, but only 5 are realy of my interest.

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xd-0

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2007-11-02

Posts: 327

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Re: Quest for *THE* feed reader

I can't seem to get snownews to remember what I've marked as read. Each time I start snownews and update the feeds  (R) all  the news show up as unread.
Since there are many snownews user in here, perhaps someone knows whats the problem?