Bloglines

Posted by Jeffrey Vanneste at 04:54 PM on September 16, 2004

Category: Useful Tools

I figure I had to make at least one post on Bloglines. After discovering RSS feeds quite some time ago I initially tried Sharp Reader. It was free and worked very well but it took a lot of memory. I tried Feed Demon but kept going back to Sharp Reader but probably since I was used to Sharp Reader instead.
Then I gave Newsgator a try which integrates itself into Outlook. What this let me do is when I sync'd my Pocket PC I could read all the posts offline. This was absolutly wonderful and I thought no reader could ever top Newsgator so I purchased it. Less than 2 weeks later someone brought to my attention Bloglines. What this let me do is no matter where I was, work or at home, I could read some feeds and not have to worry about having to mark all the feeds I read at work at home again. Bloglines lets you run a small notifier in your notification area (system tray). There is also notifiers for every OS especially through the use of the web notifier. So how do I read bloglines on my Pocket PC? Well right now if I know I'm going to have time to read feeds on the Pocket PC I just goto my bloglines page and then leave it open. Not the best of solutions but being able to have all the feeds I've read stored server-side is worth it. All of this for free. Wow.