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Top 10 Alternatives to Google Reader. Printful: Serious Reeder Competitor or Work in Progress? Keeping up with an RSS reader has become so boring and monotonous that many people just stopped using their usual Gruml or NetNewsWire apps a while ago.

Printful: Serious Reeder Competitor or Work in Progress?

That is, until a small app called Reeder for Mac came along, bringing the beauty and simplicity of mobile apps to the RSS reader market. The app that we are reviewing today is called Printful, and it aims to be sort of a Reeder on steroids. How well does it work? Let’s find out. Getting Started Getting Started The first time that you run the app, you’ll be shown a login screen where you can use your Printful account, create a new one or sign in using your Facebook, Google or Twitter profiles. I then tried accessing my account through the Mac app, and after having some problems loading my feeds, it finally displayed all of my Google Reader subscriptions, but the read/unread numbers of items were really inaccurate, and it wouldn’t display my Twitter feed (not the strongest start). The Interface Interface Features Features. Gmail, Google Reader, Maps, Youtube, Calendar on Abobe AIR.

Advertisements: AIR is a desktop environment from Adobe, the well-known makers of Acrobat PDF Reader.

Gmail, Google Reader, Maps, Youtube, Calendar on Abobe AIR

It is acronym for Adobe Integrated Runtime and its purpose is to provide beautiful rich internet applications on desktop. Developers around the world have developed thousands of applications on this new platform and there are some even for Google. Applications on AIR platform have many advantages and most prominent among them is that they are desktop based. Why Choose AIR Based Google Products Over Browser Based products? As such you are not losing anything if you decide to stick to browser based products and you may rebuff that AIR was not designed specifically for web as in case of browsers and over security issues.

Socialite - Multiple social network client for Mac! - Apparent Software. Caffeinated: The Next Big Thing in RSS Readers for Mac? I wrote many times how much I’m into Ember app: it’s a great place to find inspirational stuff and work in progress screenshots of Mac and iPhone applications.

Caffeinated: The Next Big Thing in RSS Readers for Mac?

So, the other day I was browsing the Images section and stumbled upon this screenie of a RSS app for Mac I never saw before: damn, it was sexy. I tried to gather some additional info and I found out it was a screenshot of a working build of Caffeinated, an application that’s being developed by Curtis Hard. He was so kind to give me a quick preview of Caffeinated and guys – this one’s gonna be amazing. Find out why. Caffeinated syncs with Google Reader, like almost every RSS app does today.

Delving deeper into the UI, Caffeinated has a 3 panels view: sidebar for feeds, mid panel for unread posts and the single feed on the left. NewsRack - omz:software. On July 1, Google Reader will be shut down.

NewsRack - omz:software

After nearly 5 years in the App Store, this also marks the end of the road for NewsRack. While it has always been possible to use NewsRack as a standalone RSS reader, in practice, most users preferred to sync their subscriptions with Google Reader, and with that possibility going away, the app loses much of its value. It's been clear for a while that Reader didn't get much love from Google, and its API was never officially supported. This has been one of the main reasons that I moved my focus away from NewsRack and began working more on other apps — basing a business on a quasi-monopolistic web service with an uncertain future just seemed like a very risky proposition.

I realize now that I should have drawn the consequences a lot sooner — it's been clear for a while that NewsRack was falling behind the competition in a lot of ways. How do I get my feeds out of NewsRack? What are some alternative apps you can recommend? On the iPad, Mr. NewsFire™ (for Mac OS X) Reeder for Mac. Help Crash on launch Reeder fails to validate since a couple of days (Feb 15) and crashes on launch.

Reeder for Mac

Reinstalling from the App Store should fix this: Move Reeder.app from the Applications folder to the trash (not in Launchpad and not with an uninstaller app as these usually cause issues) Re-download from the App Store View modes / filters.  The Free and Open Source RSS/Atom Reader for Mac OS X.  Google Reader for Mac OS. NetNewsWire for Macintosh « NetNewsWire App. NetNewsWire for Macintosh Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You’ve found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from millions of different websites and weblogs. 3.3.2 requires Mac OS X 10.6, and runs on 10.7 and 10.8. 3.2.15 is the final version to support PowerPC Macs and OS X 10.5.8.

Jump to screenshots Free application NetNewsWire is free, supported by ads that appear in the lower-left hand corner of the window. Features Syncs with Google Reader or runs stand-alone. Lots of keyboard shortcuts. Read and scroll through all your news just by hitting the space bar. Traditional, widescreen, and combined views provide layout flexibility, so it works the way you want it to.

Save pages for later via Instapaper, delicious.com, or by flagging or clipping them. Works with apps such as MarsEdit so you can post to your weblog.