Željko Filipin's Blog on Software and Testing

Are you in search for good feed reader? I am. I just need something that will work with all feeds I find (not so trivial), that will import my feeds from another reader (who likes to add feeds by hand?) and that looks like e-mail client (do you also find that feeds are like e-mail?).

Also, I prefer web applications. After all, I am a tester, I do strange things to my computer, so I like my data to be somewhere else. For example, all my e-mail is at Gmail.

For a while, I used SharpReader. It worked pretty well (thought it had problems with some feeds), but it is desktop application.

Then I switched to Bloglines. It has only one problem. When you click at feed that has two or more unread items, it marks all posts as read. I just do not want that.

I have tried Yahoo! Mail Beta. Looks good, but it is not usable yet. I like the idea of e-mail and feed reader at one place.

Finally, Google Reader is updated. Old reader was really unusable. The new one looks good. I will try it for a few days and decide should I switch to it.

My machine got pretty slow. Maybe I will reinstall Windows, or just uninstall everything I do not use and defragment discs. I will start with writing down all software that I use, just in case something goes wrong.

• operating system
  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• anti-malware
  • AVG Professional Single Edition
  • Windows Defender
• browser
  • Mozilla Firefox
    • Web Developer
    • Tab Mix Plus
    • DownThemAll!
    • Google Toolbar
  • Internet Explorer
    • Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
  • Opera
• e-mail client
  • Gmail (also messenger)
    
  • Outlook Express
  • Yahoo! Mail
    
• feed reader
  • Bloglines
  • Google Reader
  • iTunes – podcasting (also media player and internet radio)
• integrated development environment (IDE)
  • Arachno Ruby IDE
  • Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition
  • FrontPage
• Ruby – programming language
  • Watir – testing tool
  • TMail – email handling library
    
  • REXML – XML processor
    
• version control
  • Subversion
  • TortoiseSVN
• bug tracking
  • FogBugz
  • Unfuddle
  • JIRA
• media player
  • Windows Media player
  • iTunes (also internet radio and feed reader)
  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Shockwave Player
  • QuickTime
  • Google Video Player
  • VLC
  • Quick time alternative
  • Real alternative
• archiver
  • WinRar
  • 7 Zip
• internet radio
  • iTunes (also media player and feed reader)
  • Classic Rock Station at LAUNCHcast Radio (Yahoo)
  • Virgin Radio Classic Rock
• edit pictures
  • Picassa
  • Microsoft Office Picture Manager
  • Microsoft Paint
• text editor
  • Word
  • Notepad2
  • Notepad
• tutorial and presentation creation
  • Power Point
  • Wink
• messenger
  • Windows Live Messenger
  • Gmail (also e-mail client)
• pdf reader
  • Foxit Reader
  • Adobe Reader
• blogging software
  • WordPress
  • Blogger
• dictionary

• EH.WEB – English Croatian
• Dictionary.com – English

I have recently got mp3 player and I started listening to podcasts. So far I have listened all of QA Podcast and HanselMinutes.