Lektora 1.0.1 - RSS News Feed Reader

Lektora is a stylish and friendly way to read RSS feeds like a newspaper in Internet Explorer or Firefox. Unfortunately, Lektora does not update feeds automatically or in the background, and it lacks a few power features as well as synchronization of multiple installations.

Web-based services are accessible from everywhere, but desktop software typically is faster. Web-based services require no setup and installation, but desktop software is often more powerful. Web-based services are easily accessible, but desktop software lets you control more.

Lektora has a certain tendency to avoid the advantages of a web-based service while missing out on the advantages of desktop software. You have to download and install Lektora, but you use it in your browser (Internet Explorer on Windows and Firefox on Windows, Mac and Linux are supported). Lektora does not update your feeds on a schedule, automatically or in the background (when you click the Lektora button, the waiting begins), but you cannot access your feeds from any computer with just a browser.

All that being said, Lektora has good points going for it. The browser toolbar makes it easy to subscribe to feeds (although it really should check automatically and display whether a feed is available in some way), and, arranged nicely in groups, you can read them conveniently fast in Lektora's stylish newspaper display. Searching is easy and fast, too, and you can bookmark search terms for even swifter access.

Since Lektora treats RSS feeds like dailies, all news are archived by date. Unfortunately, this means you cannot see all a feed's news or search across dates in Lektora. Not that I'd do that so often. And reading the latest is really nice in Lektora.