Comments on: New RSS Bandit Synchronizes with Google Reader

By: Change

Change — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:47:55 +0000

Actually, Nick Bradbury, the maker of FeedDemon, wrote about this issue on his blog last March:
“Can Mozilla Be Easily Embedded in a Windows App?”
[nick.typepad.com]

Apparently it’s among the most frequent requests..!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:32:03 +0000

Change wrote:

Ryan wrote:
Why’s that a big deal? So that it uses the same cookies and history?
Yup, cookies (don’t need to login twice), history (can go back easily), and the use of extensions. Plus I don’t want to skew the browser stats. I’m quite sure I am using IE6 almost as much as Fx3 because of this. Your site gets more IE6 hits from me than Fx3 hits.. and that is not (truly) by my own choice.

Huh, I didn't even think about it from the stat perspective. That's a good point though.

By: Change

Change — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:22:52 +0000

Ryan wrote:

Why’s that a big deal? So that it uses the same cookies and history?

Yup, cookies (don't need to login twice), history (can go back easily), and the use of extensions. Plus I don't want to skew the browser stats. I'm quite sure I am using IE6 almost as much as Fx3 because of this. Your site gets more IE6 hits from me than Fx3 hits.. and that is not (truly) by my own choice.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:18:16 +0000

Change wrote:

I just wish it was possible to use Firefox as the browser engine in this or Newsgator’s application(s)

Why’s that a big deal? So that it uses the same cookies and history?

By: Change

Change — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:59:57 +0000

I just wish it was possible to use Firefox as the browser engine in this or Newsgator’s application(s)

By: Kent Bunn

Kent Bunn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:24:05 +0000

The Outlook integration is the must have feature for me now. Having all my feeds and email in one place is a dream. Especially when I want to forward things around, etc. I’ve never used the Google feed interface, so I’m ok w/ the Gator one.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:58:19 +0000

I like NewsGator as well, but I don’t think their mobile interface is as nice as Google’s. That’s the only reason that I would prefer to use an app like this over NewsGator’s offerings. Having said that NetNewsWire is still my main RSS feed reader simply because a good desktop app that offers Google syncing isn’t available for Mac’s yet.

By: Kent Bunn

Kent Bunn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:08:57 +0000

I’ve been using NewsGator to do almost the same thing for months. And in fact, if you use their tools, you have even more options.

In my case I use NewsGator Inbox to do my of my handling of feeds. It integrates into Outlook, and makes it a dream to do things like forward on interesting posts, etc. And it sync’s up with the web based Newsgator that I can access from anywhere. I’ll take the Outlook integrated reader over a stand-alone app any day.

But if I did want the stand alone app, they have that too. Or if I used a Mac, they have me covered there.

And it’s all free.