I’ve become a huge fan of BlogBridge – it has been the most efficient and powerful rss aggregator I’ve ever used. But, it kinda sucked because it didn’t behave like a native app. I’ve kind of got a fetish for native apps on MacOSX – apps that behave as expected, look as expected, and do stuff the way they should.
Well, BlogBridge 2.7 is now available as an “actual” application! It runs great and looks the way it should.
My only remaining nits with BlogBridge are that it doesn’t seem to respond to the feed:// protocol – if I click on the blue “RSS” bullet provided in the address bar of Safari, BlogBridge pops to the front, but doesn’t do anything (at least visibly). The other nit is that if I click a link in BlogBridge, it brings my browser to the front. Annoying if I’m just wanting to preload a dozen or so tabs to read after scanning my feeds…
But, a great job by the folks at BlogBridge! I’m loving it. (cue J.T.’s million-dollar-jingle)
ps. Pito: I tried to leave this as a comment on your announcement post – but got a MovableType “missing file” error when posting the comment. Not a bad spam-blocker 
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Well I’m glad you like it. For me, it falls into the ‘piece of crap’ category.
I suppose I might have liked it more had it installed, had it been writeen in something other than Java, had the website generated something other than errors when I tried to post the error…
Yeah – their website barfed on me when I tried to post a comment, which is why I resorted to a full-blown blog post instead. Looks like they’re trying to be clever with MovableType to prevent spammers. Stupid spamroaches…
At first, the java thing made me gasp, but it’s actually quite well done. Nowhere near as responsive as a “native” app, but definitely usable on my now aging laptop, and the java swing quirks don’t get in the way too badly. The app is well worth the quirks.
Still, if they decide to write a native version of the app, I’d buy it in a heartbeat
I’ll take your work for it, but I think I’d want to see it actually work first.
Is it giving any errors? Just failing to launch? Anything logged as output? Anything funky on your java classpath?