Virtual Reach Viigo RSS Reader Gets A Makeover

by Ronen Halevy on Jul 30th, 2007 at 2:01 pm EST

Viigo RSS reader gets an upgrade and a makeover
Version: 2.2.55
Link: www.virtualreach.com
OTA Link: mobile.virtualreach.com
Cost: COMPLETELY FREE

Virtual Reach has listened to the user feedback and changed their look back to a normal color from the eye straining neon green. I personally enjoy the return to blue and it seems to compliment their green logo. The new version does add in a few more features as you can see in the list below. ~~Some of them may be a bit premature. They claim they have added the ability to click on links in an article but when I tried it did not work. You can see what I mean in the screenshots after the jump.~~ UPDATE: After a conversation with the developers I have found that there is an option to click links if you push the menu button and select the get link option. This did not always work on all 3 test devices especially when it came to digg and engadget posts.

A brand new banner on our Viigo branded version (to quote one of our loyal users, the old green one was “fugly”)
Following links is supported in the item description screen (open an item and scroll to a link)
When opening an item in the browser, content is proxied through a mobile-enhancement service (this option can be turned on and off under Options->Application)
Improved Suretype keyboard shortcuts (we now support the standard “go to top” and “go to bottom” keys in the item list, for example)
Multiple recipients are supported now when sending articles and referring friends
Improved caching of the initial Channel Manager library (under “Add Channel”): this used to take a few seconds to load
Better error messages, some of the old ones were pretty confusing

More screenshots after the jump