Shrook 2 – RSS and Atom for Mac OS X
Shrook has several advantages over other news readers I’ve tried. First, it allows you to easily synchronize your news reading across more than one machine. This is super if you read news at work and home, for instance. No more weeding through the items you’ve already seen at work when you get home.
Second, it uses the Macintosh OS X Safari “rendering engine” to display the complete, original blog page within the shrook interface. This means you don’t even have to use a separate browser and you see the complete context of the origial post. (If you click on a link on the web page you’re viewing within Shrook, it does open your preferred browser.)
You can turn it this feature on or off for each feed — use it where it works best and don’t use it where it doesn’t. I like that a lot.
There are nice reviews of
Shrook
by Liz and
Cory Doctorow.
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