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Saturday, October 22, 2005

RSS Reader

After writing about how much I love Google Personalized Homepage I realized I have out grown it. I have slowly been acquiring a rather large list of blogs and news sites that I track, and they are filling up the Google page. I guess I will finally have to switch over to a installed program. I could use some of the online sites that can track blogs, but I'd rather just have it download. It's kind of similar to the Webmail vs. Pop email. I like it to be a local app rather than a webpage.

Google! Find me some RSS Readers please!
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What more could I ask for: Wikipedia - List of news aggregators

This site is amazing! It has every program I have ever heard of plus 100's more. After browsing down the list I spotted Thunderbird. I am a lover of Firefox and use Thunderbird for my email while in Linux so I figured I would give it a try.

So off I ran to Thunderbird's Homepage to download the the latest v1.5 beta 2.

Here you can see it has the standard email interface you would expect from most modern email clients with the clean look you expect from a Firefox relative.

It is extremely easy to add another blog or other RSS feed site to Thunderbird. The only thing that keeps throwing me off is you must include http:// before the url of the feed and I keep forgetting it.

After that the interface is slick and simple, just the way I like it.

I have been thinking about try some of the other programs on the list, but at this time I do not have any reasons to spend the time looking. I only wish there was an option of minimize Thunderbird to the systray, but I can live without it. The beta2 have been completely stable so far and I am happy with the whole setup.

So, what do you use for feeds?

Posted by Jon Heizer at 12:28 PM