{"id":147,"date":"2004-04-08T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T14:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-10-09T22:21:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:21:45","slug":"sauce_reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2004\/04\/08\/sauce_reader.php","title":{"rendered":"Sauce Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I previously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2003\/11\/17\/desktop_aggregators.php\">mentioned<\/a> moving from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzcrawler.com\/\">Newzcrawler<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpreader.net\/\">Sharpreader<\/a> as a desktop aggregator.  Again I am getting a bit annoyed at the lack of development pace of Sharpreader and minimal improvements that has been made between most recent releases.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/channels.lockergnome.com\/rss\/archives\/software\/009776.phtml\">Lockergnome<\/a> mentioned a new release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.synop.com\/Weblogs\/SauceReader\/\">Saucereader<\/a> and I checked it out.<br \/>\nIt is very nice looking indeed with a modern interface, supports importing OPML files and has most of the bells and whistles you would want.  I really like it and would switch to it permenantly once the following has been addressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More keybindings &#8211; there is no simple way to move to the next unread item, the interface is a nightmare for people who do not like using their mice such as myself.  My wrists are buggered, using a mouse hurts &#8211; using this software hurts a lot.  Keybindings for opening in a new window etc would also be useful.\n<li>Visual indication of new items arriving &#8211; something like a baloon popup but it has to be configurable, sharpreader has a rediculous baloon that takes loads of CPU.\n<li>Abiltiy not to use IE as the browser, IE does not have proper ad blocking and so forth, I really do not wish to use it.\n<li>Configurable actions on items &#8211; at the moment clicking on a item shows the RSS feed values of it, double clicking opens it in IE inside the reader, this isn&#8217;t nice at all.  I like double clicking to open on a external browser such as firefox where I can catch up on all my sites and open interesting things in different tabs then later on go and read each opened tab.\n<li>More sorting options for the display &#8211; I would like to sort new items on top no matter what the date in them says.  Maybe I just have not found the right toggle or click since their page sorting does seem rather powerfull, I will keep fiddling this.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of these concerns\/wishes has been mentioned on their support forum and I could tolerate most of these problems except the first one.  I will not use a overly-mouse intensive program.  Once that is fixed I will use this as my aggregator, for now I will have to go back to the old Sharpreader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I previously mentioned moving from Newzcrawler to Sharpreader as a desktop aggregator. Again I am getting a bit annoyed at the lack of development pace of Sharpreader and minimal improvements that has been made between most recent releases. Lockergnome mentioned a new release of Saucereader and I checked it out. It is very nice looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}