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Actually I NEVER do this. This blog is usually about me me and me with a dash of me. Still, I am having such a joyful experience using this new RSS reader for OS X.. that I want to share it with you.

Choosing an RSS reader is like deciding on a politician.
You pick the one that sucks the least.

I’ve been on iGoogle for a while. I’ve tried pageflakes, google reader, netvibes, newsblahblah and some other ones with worse names.

Times does exactly what I’ve always wanted. Reading RSS feeds in a beautiful, organized, intuitive newspaper-like interface… outside of the browser.

Groups of feeds are organized into “pages.” Each page has a nice layout that leads the eye from the latest story down the list. If there is an image in the post Times will add it to the headline beautifully. In my case I created a page for geeky web stuff a page for design inspiration and a page for world news.

The front page can be peeled back to show the details, images, and comments of each post. Flipping back and forth between the front page and the post detail is quick and painless.

I could go on and on… Times is an impressive application.

There are more than a handful of features that I’d like to see in 2.0 – but I’ll spare you the details.. which I’ve emailed to the programmer. He hasn’t responded yet, probably too busy making this kick-ass app. If he doesn’t hit me up soon I’ll make sure he never works in this town again! C’mon man… Zack from Dipity responded to me in, like, 30 seconds. (check them out too… they are also fulfilling one of my UI dreams)

oh, yeah… back to Times. Download it. Try it. If you are still on a PC (ahem! to all my friends over 50).. you don’t know what you are missing.

peace out.