I depend on (and love in a weird sort of way) Google Reader. Yes, it’s part of my job to keep up on a lot of news, but it’s also great for following your favorite sites. So I’m persnickety when it comes to using RSS on the go. It has to, in this order:

1. Sync with Google Reader
2. Be FAST, showing me new stories from my 200+ feeds in a matter of seconds
3. Allow me to quickly view entire folders, not just individual feeds
4. Make it easy to open the site up in a browser
5. Make it easy to share over email and twitter
6. Make it east to send to Instapaper
7. Have a readable interface

The speed is the main thing. With that many feeds an app that fully syncs content for local storage before you can get to reading is just not tenable.

Enter the latest version of Feeder, now in a Beta form you can download and use for around 10 days, and should be updated in the App Catalog soon at $1.99. The latest beta, which you can see above, pretty much hits every single one of those requirements – hits them hard. Feeder is fast, responsive, able to share via Twitter and email, links to SpareTime and Relego for later reading, supports Google Starring and Sharing (if you use those features), and is, finally, fast.

Recommended, and kudos to Semicolon apps for some rapid updating and feature-inclusion that have made this my favorite RSS reader on webOS and possibly my favorite RSS reader on any platform. It gives iOS’ Reeder and run for its money and blows away anything available on Android.

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Feeling like you’re spending too much time on PreCentral? We assure you that you’re not. But if you feel like you should be spending more time elsewhere on the internet, we thought you’d be glad to know that PreCentral is elsewhere on the internet as well. Be it on the old standby Twitter or our new Facebook fan page (or in the really old standby of RSS), PreCentral is everywhere that you want to be. Check it all out after the break…

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Google has updated Reader for mobile with a slew of snazzy features, according to the company’s Google Reader blog.  The interface is improved overall, and the laundry list of new features includes:

• Support for "liking", tagging, and sorting feeds by oldest and newest
• A More/Less feature to reduce clutter
• Updates to the header bringing it into line with the likes of Gmail and Calendar
• The addition of a new drop-down menu
• A new "Recommended Sources" section

If you haven’t been to the mobile site for awhile because you’ve been using the likes of Scoop or Feeds, it’s definitely worth a visit to check out the new enhancements as the new version is much more pleasant to use – which is a good thing, since we need to pop in from time to time to manage our feeds when we’re away from the desktop.

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The big question (one of them) surrounding the Palm Pre is just how good is the browser? We know it’s based off the same open-source WebKit engine as the iPhone’s Safari browser, but the robustness of its features has been up in the air for, well, five months now. Thanks to Darth Pooh in our forums and his magical Pre access, we can note that the Pre’s browser is fairly robust, as it can handle both Google Docs (spreadsheet) and Reader, as seen above. They are the iPhone versions of the sites, but that’s not a bad thing by any measure.

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