I’m an extensive user of RSS, and, up to now, have been more than happy to use Thunderbird as my RSS client, given I spend a large part of my day stuck in TB reading mail, it’s a natural choice. However, at the moment, I’m regularly switching between three different computers, and there’s no easy way of treating RSS feeds like IMAP folders, and being able to manage them no matter what machine you are logged in from. This results in my feeds becoming out of sync, when I add a new feed on one machine, I have to remember to add it on another machine. More annoying still, I as I read stuff on my work machine, my home machine knows nothing about it, meaning that quite often I’m reading stuff twice etc.

So, today, I decided to re-try Google Reader. Last time I used Google Reader, I wasn’t impressed, but, today, I imported my Thunderbird OPML export, and hey presto, everything worked exactly as I wanted it. Admittedly, I now have to read via Firefox, but, the time I don’t spend in TB is usually spent in FF anyways, so, that’s not such a bad thing. If you’re in the same position as I am, I suggest that you give Google Reader a whirl.