And here you can easily do things like star, share, make a note (tied to Google Reader), send to Instapaper (or Delicious, Pinboard, etc), and post to Twitter.
Again, with all the proper Mac styling, it just looks a lot nicer than Google Reader does in the browser. The third (right) pane is where the content is actually shown. There’s also a check-box at the bottom to mark all items as read (or you simply hit “A”). This area shows you the title of the post as well as a short preview of the content. The second pane contains the feed of stories by a particular site (or bundled folder of sites). (You can also drag this left panel out to make it larger, and this will give you a more traditional folder/drop-down view.) Or you can click on the bundle to read all of the items in there. Hitting the arrow in the lower left square on this bundle will drop down individual feed items. In the left pane, you’ll find your feed folders - but they don’t look like folders, they look like bundled icons. The app uses a 3-pane view similar to the iPad version of the app. But Reeder makes the experience look roughly a million times better. You log in with your Google credentials and all of your feeds (and starred items) are transfered over. Of course, users of Reeder on the other platforms will know that it is built on top of Google Reader. And it has completely replaced Google Reader for me.
I’ve been using the app for months now, and it’s finally feeling rock-solid. And developer Silvio Rizzi has given me permission to do a short preview of what you can expect when the beta hits (sometime in the next couple of weeks, he hopes).
While the blog Macstories did a preview back in September when the software was in early alpha, it has come a long way since then. And now it’s about ready to launch in beta for the Mac. It’s so good that I often prefer using it to reading feeds in Google Reader, long my go-to RSS reader. That changed when the 2.0 version of Reeder arrived earlier this year. For a long time after the launch of the iPhone, despite thousands of apps for just about everything you can imagine, there was no killer RSS reader app.