ReadAir - Desktop Application for Online Google Reader!

15 May, 2008 Feeds, Internet | by Rahul Bansal (416)

Google Reader is favorite feed reader for many, but some people are just not comfortable with any online reader. As most of them AJAX apps and consumes high amount of memory. But on the other hand, online readers offers you advantage of being available from anywhere!

Now a new app built on Adobe Air platform, ReadAir successfully brings Google Reader to your Windows/Mac/Linux desktop. Yes, as Adobe Air is available for all major operating systems, ReadAir automatically becomes available for all desktop users.

Below is screenshot of my ReadAir - Google Reader…

Key Features:

Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
Add/Remove/Manage tags
Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
Search your feeds
User preferences

As of now ReadAir does not support offline mode, so you need to be connected to Internet to get feed contents. But for offline reading, you can use offline mode feature in Google Reader as described here.

Also I have noticed YouTube videos are not showing-up in ReadAir. They smoothly run in online Google Reader. The project have few small open issues like support for custom keyboard shortcut but overall its really nice, specially if you are waiting for Google to launch a desktop feed reader!

Link: ReadAir (requires: Adobe Air)

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2 Comments (including Pingbacks/Trackbacks) so far »

Pavan Kumar said, on May 16, 2008 @6:25 am

That’s a nice one… lets see how it works for me..
Rahul Bansal said, on May 17, 2008 @1:20 pm

@Pavan
It worked nice in my testing.
It will be good if they support offline mode soon.
That way even people with dial-up or slow internet connection can use Google Reader