readefine desktop is an air app which uses flex, creating a really nice, clean layout for your rss / google reader feeds, text or html content.
Free
Mac OS X
Windows
Adobe AIR
readefine desktop is an air app which uses flex, creating a really nice, clean layout for your rss / google reader feeds, text or html content. read content in a book like multicolumn layout and tweak settings like justification, column width, etc. for that perfect look.
features
beautiful multicolumn, newspaper like layout for rss and google reader. dislike scrolling text? readefine divides text into multiple pages for easy reading. mark these as read the "next page" button in magazine layout marks the articles shown to you as read (in google reader), then gets more content. looks great no matter what screen size. use keyboard shortcuts like + and to change font size. shift + j to justify text. instapaper, ,twitter, readitlater support. the desktop version contacts google directly and only talks to readefine servers for selfupdating. resizes pictures and videos to fit within the column. reflows text according to the available size. makes long plain text files beautiful and also sections them for performance. removes stray newlines, empty p, br tags. supports drag and drop of text/rss/html. copy paste or load a file from your computer (load, not upload)
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