New RSS Reader - Thunderbird
For all its memory leaking faults, I really enjoyed using SharpReader above all others. It had a simple to use and uncluttered interface; required nearly nothing in terms of configuration and didn’t come with features I didn’t need or want.
But it did take a big chunk of my memory, and it had issues being behind a firewall.
I looked at RSS Bandit (too many, preinstalled news feeds and a tonne of option to setup) and RSS Owl (the tabbing feature really doesn’t work for me); I even checked out Pluck (again, too much configuration and it was finicky on which RSS feeds it wanted to read) and I thought that I would be stuck with the unwanted love-child SharpReader.
Then Simon introduced me to Thunderbird. Not only does it have a clean and neat layout, it was so easy to setup a feed. Because it does primarily does email, I gave it my gmail account details and was given back all the functionality I could want in powerful email tool. Now I can work with my web account offline!
Now if only there was a blogging plug-in, I would call Thunderbird my centralised web tool (and I might even install Firefox again to compliment it). Hmm, I wonder if I’m geeky enough to build the plug-in myself.
If I have to have a fault with Thunderbird (just to keep consistency with finding issues with everything) it’s that it doesn’t minimise to the system tray. However after visiting the plug-ins page, they are aware of this much needed feature, so I’m happy to wait until it appears.
So on the whole, I am one happy consumer; and I wish Mozilla all the success and fortunes that go with creating great software.