BlogBridge
I just discovered BlogsBridge. Techcrunch had a short write up. This is perhaps one of the best free RSS clients I have played with.
What’s cool?
It’s Java so nice cross platform compatibility.
If you setup a free account your clients will stay synced. Best feature IMO.
There is a bunch of social web 2.0 type stuff but that doesn’t really grab my attention much.
So it’s like using a web client but instead it’s a fast smooth local client. This means you can read your stuff offline too. Not to shabby.
They have some weird things to sort out with fonts though. It is anything but intuitive on how to set override or default fonts and font sizes. Also not sure why anti alias on fonts shows up some times but not others in the prefs on different but similar systems… Fonts also do not look as good as they should (contrasted to IE or Fire Fox). No tabs either. All that aside it’s pretty neat.
Not sure how it’s put together, off hand I would say they need to use the mozila engine or get a newer version of it. That would probable help a ton.
I have been using a combo of RSSBandit that has some weird resource hogging going on, but is a slick client aside from that. As well as newsgator, which is cool but I can’t get syncing for offline viewing without giving them monthly money, not going to happen. I would shell out for a client but never monthly fee’s, I’m so done with the never ending service push.
The number of feeds I reed makes this setup a pain, so maybe blogbridge will help with that. No MCE plug-in client though (something newsgator has), and since they are java I doubt there will be.
Anyone know another solution for universal synced feeds plus ability to read things offline?