I saw Apprise mentioned on TechCrunch yesterday and I had to try it. It’s another Adobe Air application. As usual, this is free and cross-platform.
Apprise is a standard RSS reader, with a lot of bells and whistles. The stand-out feature, however, is the ability to instantly send a URL to Twitter or AIM without having to cut and paste or leave the reader. Apprise also automatically converts your URLs to TinyURLs.
My favorite feature thought was the ability to see the RSS feed or click the Site tab and view the original post. I read a lot of truncated posts, so this was really helpful. You can add folders, view by author, view by category, and search your RSS feeds. It’s sort of a desktop Google reader, with some bonuses thrown in for fun.
While I really like Apprise, I’m also attached to working almost entirely within my browser (with the exception of Twhirl). Using Apprise will require changing my work habits. However, I like it enough, I’ll try it for a bit and see if I can make a go of it.
Apprise is 100% open-source so you programmer types can modify the code.
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