Omea Pro FINALLY open source!!!

Posted by JohnK
Mar 23, 2013 at 03:27 PM

I spend much of my online life in Google Reader (well, actually in programs that use Google Reader to sync: Feeddemon on Windows and various Android apps). I read this forum, and most online content, via RSS.

Like many people, I’ve learned a lesson from the closure of Google Reader—the unexpected closure of cloud services is much more disruptive to your life than the disappearance of a piece of desktop software. At least you can keep using the final version of the desktop software (look at the number of people on this forum still using Grandview or Ecco).

I already use my own domain for email, and use a paid email service to host that domain. I’ll certainly avoid free cloud services in the future, or services which are not core to the provider’s business.

If you have a server where you can host your own RSS service, I’d recommend looking at Tiny Tiny RSS (free) of Fever ($30). I’m currently running both and switching between them to see which I prefer. Fever is a lot easier to set up than TT-RSS.

Fever: http://www.feedafever.com
TT-RSS: http://tt-rss.org/