ReadAir: Google Reader Desktop Application

Google Reader is now available on desktop, thanks to Adobe Air technology. As I never mention about Adobe AIR in my previous posts let me describe briefly what it is all about. Simply put, AIR allows web developers to transform rich internet applications into desktop applications which can be deployed across different operating systems. The existence of AIR provides companies with websites a new approach to engage with their customers.

Ebay Desktop is one of the renowned Adobe applications which allows its sellers to complete a listing offline and then upload it to eBay when they are connected to the internet. Of course there are endless list of other applications but in this post we are gonna look at ReadAir.

What's so special about ReadAir? It's derived from probably the best aggregator, Google reader, which contains many useful functions and more importantly, it's my favorite RSS aggregator. ReadAir will stream you latest news and articles from your online Google reader right into your desktop.

I've been using ReadAir since a week ago (at that time it was version 0.1) and within several days it progresses to .21 with more features added. The following shows the current progress and future implementation.

Features

• NEW (Version 0.2) Continuation (Allow users to view more than 20 items per feed)


• NEW (Version 0.11) J/K Shortcuts


• NEW (Version 0.11) User preferences (Mac/PC)


• Mac themed scrollbars and form elements


• Full synchronization with Google Reader Account


• Add/Remove/Manage tags


• Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds


• Search your feeds


• Resizable viewing pane


• Auto software update


• Auto login

To do

• Offline mode


• Rest of the Keyboard shortcuts


• Windows XP/Vista and custom themes


• Unread count in Mac doc icon

I hope ReadAir will keep evolving and gets better.