Work with a standalone RSS reader for your network and online materials. Configure the options for collecting, displaying, scrolling, and updating news feeds according to your specifications and task requirements. Combine multiple sources manually or automatically.
Caffeinated is a very nice Google Reader desktop app. It allows you to connect to your Google Reader account and read all those RSS feeds you eagerly wait for each morning. This is a free app, which is in an early beta, but it still manages to look great and work like a charm. Of course, there are some features that you will find in commercial apps that this app simply doesn't have. But I am pretty sure more features will be added in the future.
The main window shows a list of your RSS subscriptions on the left pane, along with a number of unread items next to each subscription. To the right are the headlines and the pane to the right of the screen shows the actual news article in full-size, even with images. This pane shows the date the article was released with a red ribbon on the top, so you can't really miss it. Also, the name of the RSS feed is added in a subtitle.
Graphically, Caffeinated looks a lot like Reeder. It has a very smooth user interface with a nice choice of fonts and colors. Reading news is very easy with this app and I love the fact that it can synchronize with Google Reader so that the news that you read on this will appear as read on Google Reader. Kudoz go to the developer for a very nice app.
v1.3 [Sep 9, 2012]
- Fixes random crashing bug
- Fixes Facebook crashing bug
- Fixed Google+ crashing bug
- Fixed print entitlement
- Fixed starred items not syncing correctly
- Fixed issue with mark selection as read ignoring the items that were multi-selected
- Fixed issue with Evernote
- Fixed issue with Safari Reading List
- Fixed issue with add subscription popover not opening when clicking a feed url from another application and Caffeinated is not open
- Moved the "view" menu next to edit
- Evernote will now use full HTML as a note
- Application is now full retina ready!
- Added icons in the services preferences
- Added longer refresh times
- Added ability to sync all starred items - huzzah!
- Added ability to always display notifications regardless off wether the application is focused or not
- Added "copy" into the toolbar
- Added "open into browser" into the toolbar
- Added "open" into the toolbar
- Added new theme "Smooth"
- Added shortcuts for navigating around the app
- Removed copy, open, open in browser shortcuts and moved into the services section ( your custom shortcuts are carried over into the service )
- Improved theme engine
- Improved syncing speeds
