Hey Nicholas, Yeah, I got it, and that is what I thought Feed Wrangler and REad Kit both did, but thanks for confirming. Now that I know that Read Kit will delete articles when I move through them, I am going to make the plunge to REad Kit and Feed Wrangler some time this week. Regarding Newsrack, I actually think it is completely dead now, as none of my feeds have refreshed since before July 1, and I had disconnected my feeds from Google Reader, thinking they would refresh but just not sync. I have been using Lire only to follow my feeds on IOS, but the app is painfully slow at pulling your feeds and moving between your folders and feeds, and also has no sync capabilities. Ugh, why did Google have to kill Google Reader. Goes to show you all companies like Google care about is making money, as I believe Reader was killed because it wasn't profitable. On Jul 8, 2013, at 6:51 AM, Nicholas Parsons <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> HI Brian, > > Yes, ReadKit let's you just arrow down through the list of articles and marks > them as read once they've been selected. In this sense it's very similar to > NewsRack. There's a table for your folders and feeds, and then to the right > of it is the table of articles, and then to the right of that is an HTML area > where the article is displayed. So once on the table of articles, with > QuickNav off, you can just arrow down through the articles. It even reads you > the first few sentences after the title as you're arrowing through. I find > this really useful. There's also a mark all as read button you can press to > mark all articles in the list as read. > > Sounds like you understand how it works. But just to make sure you're clear, > I'll spell it out in a bit of detail. Feed Wrangler is an RSS engine. It > provides the collation of feeds and syncing capability behind the scenes, and > lets other developers use these services with their apps. To use this > service, however, you have to pay the $18.99 yearly subscription fee. IN > addition and as a freeby, Feed Wrangler provides a free web app and a free > iOS app for you to use its service. > > ReadKit is an RSS client for the Mac. It supports a whole range of RSS > engines which can sync your RSS fees behind the scenes. One of these is Feed > Wrangler. ReadKit cost me about 5.49AUD in the Mac App Store. I use it with > Feed Wrangler as I said, but you could use one of their other syncing > services if you wanted, but I can't tell you how well any of them work. > > I too loved NewsRack. I'm sad it's come to nothing post Google Reader, but I > probably got my money's worth in the end. ReadKit with Feed Wrangler isn't as > clean and easy to use as NewsRack was with Google Reader, but it's fairly > close. I'd love to continue using NewsRack, but the inability to sync with my > iPhone is a deal breaker. > > I mentioned it in the last email but it's so good I'll mention it again: I > think you'll really like ReadKit's Readability mode which allows you to view > the full text of the article without clicking on any links or anything. Very > useful. > > Oh, and just again, I'll mention the one problem I have with ReadKit. That is > the inability to manage your folders and feeds. I think this is a Feed > Wrangler limitation and I've heard they're intending to change this. However, > for now, to add feeds to folders etcetera you need to use Feed Wrangler's web > app. This is in stark contrast with NewsRack and Google Reader where you > could so easily manage all your feeds and folders through NewsRack's > interface. > > Cheers, > Nic > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
