
by
jellynail
Mon Mar 19th, 2007 9:49am
(from #bor)
After I realized that the Sage extension for Firefox was too minimalistic for my needs--around the time the number of feeds I subscribed to entered the triple digits--I switched to the Yahoo! Mail beta, which integrates RSS with email. Clever, but the interface was slow and awkward, and Yahoo would occasionally tell me it couldn't find my feeds! I tried out the Flock browser beta next, which had feed capabilities built right in. It worked fine for a week, and then it stopped loading new messages entirely. That's just about when I figured out that only a standalone news aggregator would meet my needs. Searching turned up three decent free readers, all strikingly similar. But GreatNews managed to edge out the competition by being slightly faster and more customizable. Despite being a ...
Best of all: when I find an item I want to post here, I just click the 'label' link at the bottom and pick the 'Bordom' label. It saves all the articles in one place and won't throw them away until I unlabel them.