I love Google Reader and use it to manage and maintain all of the feeds that I read on a daily basis. For me, the challenge is the fact that I don’t always want to open it up in my browser. I guess sometime I just get lazy or don’t want to really see how much reading that I have to catch up on. Fortunately for me, and others like me, there is a viable alternative that leverages Google Reader but is really usable from the desktop. It’s not new but I just came across it recently. Readair is a Google Reader application created on the Adobe Air platform, which means its fast, slick and cross platform.

It’s really nice and simple and is a great application for catching up on all those RSS feeds that you have piling up on you! Here is a nice screenshot:

Check it out for yourself, but I think it’s the answer to many of my feed reader issues. The icing on the cake? It’s available for Mac and Windows. You can download it here: ReadAir. Useful, usable and a huge time saver! I highly recommend it.