My friend David came into my office a couple of months ago extolling the true glory that was Sage. For those not in the know, Sage is an RSS feed aggregator built as a plugin into Firefox. I gave Sage a try and quickly said, no thanks and went back to Opera. Opera's RSS aggregator is really nice, just click on the RSS link on any page, and Opera subscribes you to that feed. Very nice. Tightly integrated and sensible.
What bugged me about Sage was that you couldn't mark all of the feeds as read. Whenever you added a feed, you had to go through and click on every article so that Sage thought you had read it. Very annoying. Being the good Open Source slacker that I am, I opened up the code to see how hard it would be to implement a "Mark All as Read" feature. Low and behold, the code was already there! They just needed to have the widgets added. So, 1.3 was released a couple of days ago and I just installed it. There is Mark All as Read and his friend Mark All as Unread.
There are some other cool new features, but I will leave that up to the reader to discover. If you are tired of having *another* application open, or are just looking for a nice aggregator, give Sage a try.
*UPDATE* Apparently Cris was the person to first introduce me to Sage. Must give credit where credit is due...
Posted by carl at November 20, 2004 08:46 PM
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