Feedreader selections

I read a lot of stuff online and so I naturally use a feed reader.

After an unfortunate accident in Bloglines, I decided to change feed readers. I tested out Google Reader, Rojo, RSSOwl and RSSBandit, and Alertbear.

Web based readers

Google Reader: Very fast. Easy to organize. Has a nice 'Trends' feature. And also feed sharing. + Tags. But for me, it lost. It looks ugly(I really think so). And it's web based. Not a problem, but I've been using web based for a while now and I want a change to an desktop application.

Bloglines: It's fast and simple to use. Not as fast as Google Reader though. But again it's ugly. Has some cool features like Playlists, which let u 'play feeds'. And lots of other stuff.

Rojo: Looks neat, but not easy to use. Has strange controls and I don't like that it shows all the articles, even the read ones and I have no idea how to turn it off.

Desktop Readers

Alertbear: Desktop application. Quite neat. But I felt that it's a bit too 'bulky'. As in it occupies too much screen space. Too much empty space in buttons etc. But the desktop widget type thing is pretty neat. I'd use this if I didn't have so many feeds.

RSSBandit: Nice looking. But this one was slow. It took so long to load, it got annoying. Also organizing was a pain. I thought this was a dream, but it turned out really tiresome to use.

RSSOwl: Quite decent looking. Easy and fast(not as fast Greader/Bloglines/Rojo). It does all the basic stuff I'll ever need. It's perfect.

Winner: RSSOwl

Yay for me!