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RSS Reader with Synchronization

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on 1/15/2005

I’ve decided to cross over into the world of using an RSS reader. But my one requirement was that I be able to syncronize my RSS environment with multiple computers, much like the excellent .mac does with my calendars, todos, address book, and bookmarks (and files if I wanted to). After much searching I was sure I would come up dry. But then I read the Shrook website more carefully, and discovered that it synchs with its own free service, which also includes a web interface! I couldn’t be happier. I’ll probably buy it after the 30 day trial. Also notable is the yet unreleased NetNewsWire 2.0, which will also have syncing.

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1 Jordan
2/4/2005 at 2:27 am

Bloglines is pretty decent if you haven’t found it yet. Webapps are the wave of the future, man. Syncing is a pain, leave everything online where it belongs. NNW interface is pretty nice though.
2 Rational Fool
1/23/2006 at 3:47 pm

NNW can use the Bloglines API and hence provides syncing through Bloglines. So does BlogMatrix Jager and a few others. See:

http://www.bloglines.com/services/api/

But why pay for NNW when you can get the same thing for free from BlogMatrix Jager… and perhaps there are other free RSS readers that sync to Bloglines or something equivalent.

NewsGator, a competitor to Bloglines provides similar APIs and also integration with Outlook, etc. Also see similar server+reader tools (similar to Shrook) like BlogBridge, etc. Perhaps even Pluck?

Vienna (IMHO the best RSS reader out there) says that Bloglines integration may be in for release 2.1 (current release is 2.0 — beta?).
3 John
1/24/2006 at 3:03 pm

I’ve been using NNW 2.0 full version for a few months and like it a lot. I like the tabs. I actually don’t use the synching anymore since I am always on only one machine.