Readefine - desktop client for Google Reader
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Google Reader - this is one of the most vivid examples of how a great online service can in one fell swoop to kill the whole bunch of competing desktop applications. Yes, FeedDemon, RSSOwl and others somewhere else there, but who they are now enjoying? However, the desktop does not give up and strike back. application Readefine Desktop I try to use all the features of Google Reader, plus its own interesting features.
Readefine Desktop - is a RSS reader based on Adobe AIR, which is a desktop client for Google Reader. Immediately after installation you will be prompted to enter your credentials, and then will be exported to all of your subscriptions. There is also the option to add feeds manually or export opml-file.
The main feature of the program is so popular today, "coffee" method of watching the news. Moreover, all news is presented in the form of separate blocks arranged in multiple columns in the same way as is done in the printing layout. At the same time displayed on top of your list, and the left - a list of channels.
There is another news display pattern, called the program "classic". In this mode, you can turn a conventional view of text news, that is, the entire viewing area.
Readefine Desktop provides us with great opportunities to configure the display of text. We can change the font size and alignment, the number of columns, margins, and so on. In addition, the application integrates with Instapaper service, which allows you to save pages for deferred reading.
If you use Google Reader and fully satisfied, the application Readefine Desktop hardly will reveal something new. But if you want something new, but with preservation of the usual features, it is quite possible that this program will make a bit of variety in the usual process of reading news.
The software runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac, and Linux (Adobe AIR).
Readefine Desktop
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