I have used RSS Bandit as a feed reader for many years and before that Bloglines. But due to some long standing bugs in the previous version I gave Google Reader a fair try and I must say that it is really good.
Now RSS Bandit v1.5.0.10 is released and fixed these problems. Getting used to Google Reader I'm not sure I will use RSS Bandit for a while anyway. I've installed it and tried it and it is much better than before.
The biggest thing missing in Google Reader is ability to search. Isn't Google a search company? One little thing I miss in Google Reader is to drag and drop feeds from one folder to another. But I like the keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of them:
j/k | item down/up | selects the next/previous item in the list |
space/shift-space | page down/up | moves the page down/up |
n/p | scan down/up | in list view, selects the next item without opening it |
enter | open/close item | in list view, expands or collapses the selected item |
m | mark as read/unread | switches the read state of the selected item |
v | view original | opens the original source for this article in a new window |
shift-a | mark all as read | marks all items in the current view as read |
1 | expanded view | displays the subscription as expanded items |
2 | list view | displays the subscription as a list of headlines |
I also tried the previous version of Attensa for Outlook but did not like it at all for the way I read feeds. There is a new free beta of Attensa for Outlook 2007 but I don't feel like trying it right now.
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ReplyDeleteby Jabi
Thanks for the tips. Here's a great site for keyboard shortcuts. They have probably the biggest database of shortcuts anywhere on the web...
http://www.keyxl.com/l?t=google