GreatNews – the intelligent news reader. It’s available on Windows. It’s free. Made by a fellow Chinese. It is relatively light-weight (no .NET nor Java). It has lots of features that I cannot get use to. Moreover, it has Bloglines integration, so my reading status is still stored centralised.
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Maybe not that great. Just realised that it uses IE for its main reading pane (like most Win32 news readers), but clicking on a link does not use my default browser, which is Firebird in this case. Not enough short-cut keys so my hand has to reach to the mouse constantly.
Now, where is the support/bug-reporting forum of this thing…
I was going to type the same thing about GreatNews’ reliance on IE. I am uninstalling.
You are wrong my friend.
You can configure greatnews to use firefox by option–>usability. Tick box before ‘open rss link in external default browser’.
As in your case, firefox is your default one.
This is a great Rss reader product by our 華人。We should show some patience.
It’s very promising. Especially its synchronization with bloglines makes it a very strong rss platform with strong synchronization server api support.
You can also use it as outlook style by ticking view–>news list.
After that, once you click on a special feed, you will see all the news you received was displayed in a pane one by one as every single email item looklike.
Once you used it for a little while, you will discover more productive function.
Also I am gonna write a firefox plug-in for it. So you can right click a feed in firefox and then subscribe it in greatnews straight way. It’s gonna be livemarkes compatible.
Cheers!
There is a workaround for it, I’d written about it earlier.
http://codelust.blogspot.com/2005/06/safenews.html