When I was using FeedLounge for my feed reading, I used NetNewsWire to handle a set of private feeds (some of my own data stats, local feeds from my machine, etc.). When I left FeedLounge, I went back to NetNewsWire as my primary feed reader, using the syncing feature1 which connects to the NewsGator servers to get data - something that doesn’t work well for my private and local feeds. I needed a second feed reader.
I initially used Shrook, which I’d played with long ago back when it and NNW were in their infancy. I used Shrook for a few months, but never really liked it. In particular I didn’t like the way the content was displayed and the additional column (4 column layout instead of 3).
Recently I tried NewsFire and NewsLife. NewsFire was nagging the heck out of me before I even really tried it out, so I trashed it. NewsLife does some 
innovative 
stuff with the presentation (showing summaries, etc.), but it was stuff I didn’t really care for.
I think I’ve settled on a secondary reader now: Vienna. Vienna doesn’t do anything particularly special, but it has a nice clean 3 column layout and it formats the content nicely. Really, it does a good job at presenting data and staying out of the way - just what I was looking for.
- It really bugs me that I have to remember to quit each NNW instance when I’m done with it. So much that I might go back to a web based reader at some point. [back]
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Chris adds this Comment:
I too would like to go back to a purely web-based reader, but have yet to find anything suitable. FeedLounge had the interface right, but has become incredibly unreliable and support is spotty. I’m not going to pay $5/month for something that doesn’t work…I can get that for free. The interface was great, but it failed at its core responsibility, delivering the feeds.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Matt adds this Comment:
Vienna++
I’ve been using it since I cancelled my feedlounge account as well. Nothing complicated, but does everything I need it to do well…
January 13th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
PatrickQG adds this Comment:
You have to quit NNW? I just did a refresh of the feeds (which I’m lead to believe causes a sync), and it’d be happy.
I still find the NewsGator sync not to be quite as good as the old .mac sync, and if it wasn’t for the fact that a) I only use one computer now and b) it’s for the odd time when my own computer is dead that I need the web reader, I’d go back to using the .mac method.
January 13th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Matt W adds this Comment:
I too went to Vienna after FL, I like that some of the hotkeys/shortcuts are similar, etc. It helped make the transition a little smoother for me.
January 13th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
The Vienna hotkeys are largely borrowed from NetNewsWire, just like the FeedLounge hotkeys are.
January 13th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Avi Flax adds this Comment:
I switched from FeedLounge to Google Reader on October 3rd, and I’ve been very happy with it. Highly recommended.
January 13th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
I thought this would be about V. Teng.
January 13th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Dan adds this Comment:
Soon after you left feedlounge I too went to Google Reader which is by far the most complete online feed reader around. The problem for you would be your private feeds but you could always use V for your privates and use GR for your regs.
January 14th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Greg Reinacker adds this Comment:
Alex - you should be able to configure individual feeds in NNW to be non-synced - that’s designed specifically for the case where you have certain feeds behind your firewall that you don’t want to sync.
I don’t know off the top of my head where the setting is (on a PC at the moment), but if you shoot a note to support at newsgator.com, I’m sure they can fix you up…
January 14th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
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