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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Would you like to keep track of the new apps in the App Catalog without having to open up the App Catalog every day? You can look through PreCentral’s own App Gallery, Preware, or the variety of other listings available on the web, but you still have to remember to look for updates each day. Luckily, Palm has also made these feeds available for anyone to add to their RSS reader of choice. There are 2 types of feeds you can add ("All Applications" vs "Recently added only") for each of the 3 catalogs they support (Official App Catalog, Web Distribution or Beta Applications). For each catalog, you should only subscribe to one of the feed types. We recommend the "recently added" feed. For more details and a listing of the specific feeds, go to this article in Palm’s Developer Center and scroll down to the section titled "The Feeds".

Please note: once an application appears in a feed, it may still take a couple hours before the application is available to download

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Would you like to keep track of the new apps in the App Catalog without having to open up the App Catalog every day? You can look through PreCentral’s own App Gallery, Preware, or the variety of other listings available on the web, but you still have to remember to look for updates each day. Luckily, Palm has also made these feeds available for anyone to add to their RSS reader of choice. There are 2 types of feeds you can add ("All Applications" vs "Recently added only") for each of the 3 catalogs they support (Official App Catalog, Web Distribution or Beta Applications). For each catalog, you should only subscribe to one of the feed types. We recommend the "recently added" feed. For more details and a listing of the specific feeds, go to this article in Palm’s Developer Center and scroll down to the section titled "The Feeds".

Please note: once an application appears in a feed, it may still take a couple hours before the application is available to download

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It’s a good app day here in Pre-land: Astraware has landed, Angry Birds will any minute now, and we have probably the most exciting homebrew app we’ve seen in a long time with Mode Switcher. If you’re more of a reader than a gamer, chances are you have made it a habit of saving longer articles from the web to a service like Instapaper or Read it Later. If not, well, you really should, they’re great services. Here are a couple apps that will make your downtime a bit more bearable:

• Spare Time comes to us from SemicolonApps and interfaces with Instapaper (unofficially) to get your unread articles down to your webOS phone
• Relego comes to us from the webosroundup hackathon and the bevy of great developers who took part in it. It interfaces with the Read it Later service for your offline reading pleasure and will have more features added soon.

For the newshounds among you who are looking for shorter bits, we still love us some Scoop here at PC HQ for how efficiently it burns though our massive Google Reader queue. Those of you with lighter RSS loads might want to check out NewsRoom, which is a fan favorite in our community

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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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Newshounds rejoice, for Palm itself managed to give you a new app, albiet indirectly, as a code sample within the Rough Cuts webOS programming guide.

Folks in our forums have been taking a gander and while it’s not a terribly complicated app – this is quite literally a rough cut – with multiple users experiencing varying degrees of frustration getting it to work properly. There are two options for you to get your hands on this application: either download it from the PreCentral forum thread, or mosey over to Palm’s developer website and download that fresh new SDK (the code you need is in the sample folder).

[via: Gadgets On The Go]

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