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After switching all my feeds to Google Reader from Opera’s in-built (albeit outdated) reader to Google, I got two days use out of it.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 | 6 Comments 

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