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ReadAir: Google Reader on Your Desktop

Posted at 7:12pm EST on 12/23/2008

If you’re a huge Google Reader fan like I am, you usually will keep a window open for Google Reader. But after a while, that can get annoying — it does for me at least.

There is an application called ReadAir, which is an Adobe AIR version of Google Reader.

But, it’s not quite perfect, yet.

I’ve noticed, as of this version (0.3), there are still a number of major bugs in it. The first bug that I’ve noticed is that when you click on a primary group folder, which has several feeds underneath it, it does not display all of the feeds from all of the blogs beneath it.

Secondly, I’ve noticed that not even all the feeds will show the items in the feed. It’s been hit or miss using this version and overall I’ve been very disappointed.

I was really looking forward to using this app full time instead of using the web-based version of Google Reader, but alas, I will still need to use the web-based version as this desktop version will not suffice for my needs.

If you want to take a look at it, head on over to Google Code to check out the ReadAir project.

So at this point, I cannot recommend that people use it. But it’s there and might be worth a moment of your time to check out.