Share RSS Feeds via AIR with ShareFire
When reading your RSS feeds, do you prefer a local application versus one that is online-only? If so, look no further than ShareFire. Besides being platform-independent (courtesy of Adobe Air), it is also completely free and open-source. It was created with article sharing in mind, as its name implies. According to its creators, Christian Cantrell and Dan Koestler, this was a priority.
ShareFire supports sharing stories to AIM, Twitter and email, and posting articles to many services including Delicious, Digg, MySpace and Windows Live Bookmarks (now called favorites).
Additional features include a keyword-based notification system (which they call Smart Topics), posts arranged by topic, a switchable viewer between RSS and live web, and support for over a dozen foreign languages! You can also easily import and export OPML files you have generated from other utilities such as Google Reader or Toluu.
We found ShareFire to be on-par with other standalone feed readers when it comes to displaying and managing feeds. However, its built-in sharing links make it a cut above most basic readers and the alert system for keywords could come in very useful. One bug we did notice is that lack of any way of deleting a Smart Topic once created, and its somewhat heavy memory usage, even with only a few feeds in the queue.
More information can be found on Adobe's Air blog here.
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Well, apart from all its other charms, ShareFire clearly has excellent taste in cartoons.
Indeed so Rob! I was impressed myself!
Builtin sharing is a great feature...and I love the screenshots you provide to help others learn the system.
I love that it has different ways to read posts that are not tied to feeds. I noticed about the smart topics also, be nice to edit them and confine some keyword searches to titles and not body content to eliminate the noise of some of those keywords.
Ah, good catch about deleting Smart Topics. You can actually edit and delete them, but you found a bug: you have to right click on a feed or a folder before right clicking any Smart Topic. It'll be fixed in the next version! Searching just the titles is a good idea, too.
Thanks for the quick response, Dan. I'll be looking forward to the next revision!
Ah, good catch about deleting Smart Topics. You can actually edit and delete them, but you found a bug: you have to right click on a feed or a folder before right clicking any Smart Topic. It'll be fixed in the next version! Searching just the titles is a good idea, too.
I love that it has different ways to read posts that are not tied to feeds. I noticed about the smart topics also, be nice to edit them and confine some keyword searches to titles and not body content to eliminate the noise of some of those keywords.
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I love the simplistic look they've have, but still prefer Google Reader more.
-Alison