Hey, Mac OS X users!

[solarbird]

What's a good RSS reader client for OSX? I want something that'll aggregate RSS feeds as part of a general effort to reduce keyboard and touchpad use without reducing DATANOM. (DATANOM being the NOMMING of DATA. AHRRM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM SO TASTY and all that.)

annathepiper uses Google's RSS aggregator but I want something that'll work if I'm offline, too.

Comments

[arjache.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty darn happy with NetNewsWire (http://www.newsgator.com/INDIVIDUALS/NETNEWSWIRE/). (Well, NNN Lite. I have yet to try the recently-free full version.)

[waysofseeing.livejournal.com]

As am I. I especially like NetNewsWire because it syncs automatically between web client, offline client and iPhone client. Up to date reading anywhere!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i use netnewswire as well for a subset of my feeds. i'm reasonably happy with it.

[avram]

I currently use Vienna (freeware, open-source). Other good free options are NetNewsWire and NewsFire. I've used all three at various times, and recommend downloading them all and switching till you find which you prefer.

And some more options.

[backrubbear.livejournal.com]

I've been using Newsfire for about half a year now and it works pretty much flawlessly. That said, I finally gave up on not being able to group my "I read this daily" stuff with "I touch this when I'm bored". NetNewsWire seems to deal with that much better by allowing folder groupings.

I like the idea of the online synch but I'm hesitant to actually subscribe to their free service for it.

[brinylon.livejournal.com]

Counter question: what is the advantage of a seperate rss reader? I read my feeds on LJ, in my flist and I can't imagine needing more... Maybe because I don't know I want this yet!

[pentane.livejournal.com]

You can filter a reader. I have about 22 feeds I follow ranging from very high volume (~100 posts a day) to not so much. It's easy to lose a critical post from someone who is important in the flood of the higher volume posts.

It also enables me to assign priorities (a post from a friend who is having personal problems gets noted and read before the 50 political posts), and since I break it out by groups, I can read what I feel like, and see how much there is to read on a particular topic.

You could probably hack something like that together using flist filters, but why bother.

Plus my reader pulls summaries down so it can be read offline.

[wiredhound.livejournal.com]

You can use Google Reader offline, with Google Gears installed. Here's how:

http://www.google.com/help/reader/offline.html