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I was browsing through different download sites earlier, looking for any atom/rss readers I could find for this corporate-beat-old laptop that I have. I couple of results did come up, there’s feedreader, rssreader and the best I think is feeddemon, though the latter isn’t free.

There were a couple of things to consider to sort out the best one that’s for me, I’d really like to have a stand-alone client, something that I can use away from my browser, I want to use my browser for its main purpose “browsing”, that’s why I don’t want any plug-in that I can just stick to firefox or IE, I don’t find it comfortable really. The other irritating part is most of the ones that I did like won’t actually work unless you have Microsoft .NET Framework installed on your PC which is about 20 megabytes … so if your on dial-up, might as well get an all-nighter pre-paid ISP card just to make sure it’ll be done with the darn thing even before you wake-up.

Then I came across google reader, it doesn’t have much but it was ok, either way its still on beta testing. It was basically like what gmail was in its infancy, the only thing that bothered me was that it doesn’t show the complete context of each feed, it kinda cuts itself out at a certain point, you’d have to click a link at the end of the (supposed) feed, then it’ll open up your browser and show the rest of the content, which I find really annoying since the whole point why I wanted to have a reader is too stray away from using my browser. I’ll probably try it out in the next couple of days, or probably just download one of those ugly-faced rss/atom readers and just be content with it.