Comments on: What’s Wrong with Google Reader

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:46:19 +0000

NewsFire is now free http://www.newsfirex.com/blog/?p=201

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:43:48 +0000

The biggest, most annoyingly horrible thing about Google Reader (and the thing that’s making me think about leaving it) is that it marks items as read after a month (4 weeks to be precise), even if you haven’t actually read them.

By: Greg Borenstein

Greg Borenstein — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:21:40 +0000

Will — Thanks for the tip on ‘m’. I’ve addeda note about it to the original post.
Mathew — I felt a similar twinge when first buying NNW, but I didn’t mind dropping the cash to support an excellent (and indie at the time) Mac dev team that built an app I love and spend huge amounts of time in. NewsGator may have ads, but NNW itself doesn’t. For my use, at least, NewsGator would be a when-necessary supplement to desktop use of NNW as my primary reader.
I haven’t seen anything about a fully featured feed reader in Leopard beyond Safari’s paltry current abilites. Got a link?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:17:30 +0000

Isn’t there a news reader included with leopard?
I have never tried NetNewsWire because I don’t want to like it because it cost $30, which seems like a lot (There seems to be a lot of ads in newsgator.)

By: Will

Will — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 05:00:04 +0000

No ability to mark something unread? Not so! The m key toggles a post as read or unread.
Some other keyboard shortcuts:

The s key stars the current post.
The n key moves to the next post (without expanding it).
The p key moves to the previous post (again, without expansion).
The enter key toggles expansion.
The space bar moves to the next post and expands it.

I’m sure there are plenty of other keyboard shortcuts, but this are the ones I use all the time (which, probably on purpose, match pretty closely to the keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird).

By: Krasimir Angelov

Krasimir Angelov — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:01:24 +0000

Have you tried beta.bloglines.com? And you can mark an item as read in GReader (it's between "Email" and "Edit tags" links at the bottom of the item section :)