Feed reading – Liferea, Google Reader
Liferea 1.2.10 actually rocks. It does duplicate detection in posts, and makes my feed reading life, a lot easier.
Liferea Duplicate Feed Detection at work
It also supports bookmarking with del.icio.us, which is nifty. It feels a lot faster than the previous version. It had some internal database change and did the honorable thing and keep a backup of the old one, in case I was planning on rolling back.
All my technical related feeds have been imported into Liferea, and I’m a happy camper. In my idea of making NetNewsWire even more useless to me, I’ve moved all photographic related blog reading to Google Reader.
Now, thats a nice piece of software. With access to the Internet, I can read my feeds and have them always “synced” – i.e. I’m never going to have to read an entry twice, or anything of that sort. The only caveat is that I need to actually be online.
So while it’s handy to read Google Reader feeds while I’m sitting in a shop waiting for my take-out, its also pretty darn expensive. I’m paying something like $4.95 for less than 5MB of traffic per month I think (or maybe its 10MB), with Optus.
Does there exist software to read Google Reader offline (Linux preferred, Mac OS X is OK, Windows tolerated)? Do Series 60 Nokia phones have such ability? I ask because soon I’ll not only have the N73, but an E61i (which has WiFi). If only Liferea read/synced with Google Reader, then I can move all my feeds to a cool backend.
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Why don’t all readers sync with GoogleReader?
I mean NNWs ability to sync to Newsgator is pretty handy, but their website interface is too ugly and uncomfortable to really use.
GoogleReader does have an API, doesn’t it? So where are the Desktop implementation that use it?
Though, I guess I’m out of luck with hoping for something like that for my beloved NNW since it got acquired by Newsgator :/
I think thats the beauty of open source software and the future of software lies in it. People want choices and options. NetNewsWire is a great offline news reader. Heck, I even ponied up for the paid version because it did more stuff for me.
But just being tied to Newsgator, is a bad idea. Users need sensible defaults, yes, but users also like choice.
Google Reader does have an API. NetNewsWire should allow plugging into it. Will it happen? I doubt it. But if it was still independent Mac software, maybe it’ll have just a smattering of a chance. After all, the author is a really nice & sensible bloke ;-)
Well, if it was up to the author I’m sure it would be done. But Newsgator will act like a corporation after all :(
It just would be so nice if I could read feeds on my cellphone, or from any other computer via GoogleReader and then have it synced to my read/unread items when I’m at my laptop.
…or sync with any other half decent online feedreader.
ps: I paid for NNW too, just because it is a piece of software I use numerous times during the day and well, all the other programs that get used that often came with OS X or they are free software.
NNW with NewsGator here too, although I don’t use the website — its just for crash recovery from the NNW3 betas (which, thankfully enough, have never actually crashed and lost data).
Don’t get your hopes up about the E61i. It feels like you’re using beta software on the E-series devices. I had to go back and buy a k800i so i didn’t punch something.
Still, if you need help with E60/E61/E70 and voip, lemme know – i punished the 3 of them into submission with our Cisco CallManager Express router. Nokia still don’t answer e-mails asking about the SCCP client, but SIP seems to work, if your environment (and the phase of the moon) is right. Pop by our office when yer in Melbourne ;)
No support for Google Reader in Liferea because Google does not provide a synchronization API (they only provide a feed cache API). BTW Liferea already does Bloglines OPML synchronization.
I want to correct myself. After reading some more documentation about the unofficial API (or is it officially documented somewhere?), I now know that practically full synchronisation can be implemented for Google Reader… Just needs someone to do it :-)
Sync Liferea – How to synchronize what items you have read between two pcs
I’m going to make some ideas/thoughts about how to synchronize what you have read of your RSS feeds between two computers. I have wanted to do this for a while now.
First part is if you want to do the sql-stuff to export and import the items that…
Google Reader support for Liferea is coming. However, I’d prefer to host something myself, so I don’t want to be tied to the Google Reader API either.
It seems like a killer feature, being able to sync read status between multiple locations. I’m considering embedding something into the feed itself to track read / unread status and somehow posting that back to my own server so I can access the data from anywhere.
Not sure how that would integrate with an offline read though…
Why don't all readers sync with GoogleReader?
I mean NNWs ability to sync to Newsgator is pretty handy, but their website interface is too ugly and uncomfortable to really use.
GoogleReader does have an API, doesn't it? So where are the Desktop implementation that use it?
Though, I guess I'm out of luck with hoping for something like that for my beloved NNW since it got acquired by Newsgator :/