GoogleReader+Firefox2+TabletPC
I recently changed my web feed reading tools from the Newsgator RSS aggregator and Firefox 1.x to the Google Reader and the Firefox 2.0 release candidate. Putting the Google Reader together with Firefox 2.0 and a Tablet PC is one sweet combination. It allows me to quickly scan through blog posts separating the wheat from the chaff so to speak. Firefox 2.0 is perceptibly faster than the 1.x version, but the real gains are in the Google Reader when compared to the using the Newsgator web based aggregators. It feels like a local app and not a web app. I didn’t realize how much time was spent just navigating between blog posts previously. Hopefully the performance doesn’t degrade as more people start using the reader service. If you haven’t tried the Google reader recently, give the current version a go. The responsiveness reminds me of why I’ve stayed with Google as my main search engine for a number of years now. Its simply fast bringing up the web site to getting results back. You wouldn’t think the fractions of a second matter, but they do in practice for applications you use regularly.
