Synchronizing Feeds with Google Reader and NewsGator Online

Friday, October 24 2008; by dareo - Features

This feature is one I'm sure will be appreciated by peoples who like reading their feeds from multiple computers but still want a desktop-based feed reader for a variety of reasons (e.g. reading feeds from a corporate intranet while roaming your feeds from the public Web). With this feature you can have multiple feed lists which are synchronized from a Web-based feed reader such as Google Reader or NewsGator Online while still keeping some feeds local. All you need to do is go to File->Syncronize Feeds and follow the steps as shown in the screen shots below

after selecting the option to synchronize feeds you are taken to a wizard which gives some options of feed sources to synchronize with and obtains your user credentials if necessary.

once you have given the wizard your information your feed list is synchronized and every action you make in RSS Bandit such as subscribing to new feeds, unsubscribing from existing feeds, renaming feeds or marking items as read is reflected in your Web-based feed reader of choice. The experience is intended to mirror the experience of using a desktop mail client in concert with a Web-based email service and it should work as expected.

in addition you can also use Google Reader's sharing feature (or NewsGator's clipping feature) directly from RSS Bandit as shown below

#1 osafw on 11.04.2008 at 7:34 PM

This by far has been the best ever feature that could be in a desktop feed reader. I had tried rssbandit long long time back and had to move away to google reader. But this is what that has made me come back. Wow I thought rssbandit was done with no new features coming up for a very long time.

A really needed feature for me to move away from the web Google reader! :)

#2 dareo on 11.12.2008 at 3:49 PM

osafw,

Thanks for the feedback.

#3 Andrés Borbón on 11.14.2008 at 9:48 AM

Wonderful, just what I was looking for. I've used RSS Bandit for a long time, but I switched to Google Reader some months ago because of the social capabilities, but I will use RSS Bandit again.

I have a question: Is it posible to tag the elements and synch them with Google Reader?

Thanks a lot, and congratulations for this impressive piece of software!