ReadAir: Google Reader On Your Desktop

Published at May 15, 2008 Filed Under Tools, Web 2.0

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If you use Google Reader as your feed reader and wanted a desktop version of it then you should try ReadAir. It is a new adobe AIR application that brings Google Reader to the desktop.

It is a early release so don’t expect to function fully. It doesn’t support keyboard shortcuts and themes yet, these features may come in the next version. One important thing is that it stores login info locally, i entered wrong password in the first attempt but it never said that was invalid or anything. it just opened but never gave me the option to change the login info or allowed me to add feeds, which is annoying.

Features: Features

Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
Add/Remove/Manage tags
Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
Search your feeds
User preferences
Resizable viewing pane
Auto software update
Auto login

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2 Responses to “ReadAir: Google Reader On Your Desktop”

Nirmal
May 15th, 2008 3:21 pm

It was not working for me properly and once you login, you cannot change the settings and also log out. I guess these would be rectified in coming versions.
nitinpai
July 6th, 2008 8:54 pm

Hey I just happened to write a post on ReadAir. The main reason which prompted me for it was even I got bored using Google Reader for a long time now. Needed a change. ReadAir is nice. Have you tried FeedDemon or RssBandit?