Two weeks ago Newsgator has made its RSS feeds reading products free. I saw the posts about it but I ignored them since I already used another RSS reader (GreatNews) and was more or less happy with it. The only thing I really missed was being able to synchronize reading of feeds between the home and my workplace. This is not a problem if you use online readers, but since I’m quite demanding regarding the RSS reader user interface, I stayed with desktop applications.

Yesterday while I was reading through the latest Gizmo Richards’ Support Alert Newsletter (which I highly recommend, by the way), the FeedDemon news appeared again and I realized that not only are Newsgator’s products free, but they also offer a free registration to their online RSS reader which also serves as a synchronization point for all desktop RSS readers. So this means for example that feeds you go through at work will be marked as read and then this information will be stored on Newsgator web server. When you go back home, you won’t have to manually mark these feeds as read.

And one additional “goodie”: if you have a J2EE-enabled mobile device, Newsgator offers a beta version of Newsgator Go For J2ME. You just submit a form with your email address and will immediately receive a mail with the link to the download page of this mobile reader. I tried it on my (2-3 years old) SonyEricsson mobile phone and it works quite nicely. And off course, the synchronization feature works with mobile reader, too.

Hats off to Newsgator.