Feed Readers

Google Reader is awesome.

Well, it would be. If it worked on Opera.

It did for a while. And then they updated. So it didn’t. They fixed it. Then updated again. And now it doesn’t. Again. Sounds like a conspiracy.

Apparently, because Opera is not one of Google’s “Recommended Browsers” they don’t have to worry about fixing it. Instead, anyone wanting to use Google stuff should switch to the much better Firefox. For the mac population they accept Safari. And for the stubborn population, they even make the stuff work on IE.

But not Opera.

After switching all my feeds to Google Reader from Opera’s in-built (albeit outdated) reader to Google, I got two days use out of it. It’s not been working since the 14th. So I started looking for an alternative.

And found Bloglines.

Not the old, crappy Bloglines which I used once a couple of years ago and hated. But the new Bloglines Beta which is very similar to, yet even better than, Google Reader. Best feature is the ‘Start Page’ where you can drag your favourite feeds, and it will briefly show the latest updates from everywhere :)

And it works perfectly on Opera.

Not so hard, is it?

September 17, 2007 | Filed Under Geek 

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6 Responses to “Feed Readers”

  1. Shannon on September 17th, 2007 5:48 pm
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    I downloaded firefox to see if I could get wordpress working again. Then whatever was making it weird and stupid on Camino and Safari stopped. So now I have one more useless program on my computer.

    Marvin is not happy.

  2. jayne d'Arcy on September 17th, 2007 9:03 pm
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    It’s funny, but I moved to Google reader from Bloglines because Bloglines was so clunky. Now I’m thinking of going back. I’m wishy-washy. lol

  3. Ben on September 17th, 2007 10:02 pm
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    Go log into Bloglines Beta… all your old subs will show up and you’ll probably be sold instantly ;)

    Google Reader has this nifty ‘export’ feature… and Bloglines has a nifty ‘import’ feature.

    So the whole process is fairly painless!

  4. Andy D on September 18th, 2007 1:00 pm
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    I like firefox, and google reader. So far haven’t had any problems with them.

  5. Ben on September 18th, 2007 7:40 pm
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    I’m so used to Opera now, Firefox seems so slow in comparison, not to mention the amount of system resources it hogs…

    I’d rather change reader than browser.

  6. A Ben Week » Blog Archive » Google Reader vs Bloglines Beta, Revisited. on September 20th, 2007 12:28 am
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