RSS Bandit is a full featured RSS feed aggregator that may also be used as a desktop client for Google Reader.
Sync Google Reader subscriptions with RSS Bandit
This is especially useful in situations when you are travelling to a place that has no web access – simply download all the feeds from Google Reader to RSS Bandit and read them offline. All actions like "marking items as read" in RSS Bandit will get synchronized with Google Reader automatically later.
This is like reading your Gmail emails outside the web browser in, say, Microsoft Outlook. You have access to all your mails in offline mode and any messages that you compose inside Outlook while offline will automatically be sent once you go online.
Now Google Reader is a Google Gears compatible application as well but the problem is that Gears will only download the text content and not the images associated with the feeds.
The first public alpha version of RSS Bandit obviously had bugs but most have been fixed in the final release.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/read-google-reader-rss-feeds-offline/5194/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Why wouldn’t you just use a more mature, feature rich product like NewsGator’s FeedDemon instead?
Written by Deepak on 11.03.08
I wish it was portable, to be able to carry my feeds sometimes in a thumb drive will be real good [one of my friends needs this now very badly.]
Written by Markup Dude on 11.03.08
Actually, a better idea would be for them to partner with a mobile hardware solution IE Amazon’s (and Oprah’s) ebook reader and have the ability to carry around with you in such a manner.
Then if one was smart, such a tech, or “frame type” could enclose/tag a blog or thread from a forum or whatever and be transferable as well.
Then you wouldn’t be tied to the computer and the net would be truly be a mobile information portal.
Written by Jeff Whitley on 11.03.08