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Back when the internet was a luxury and broadband was something you had at work only many product sported an "Offline" mode. For browsers this was nothing more than turning off the attempt to talk to the network and using the cache. However, over time, offline has been denigrated to a fairly useless feature that doesn't work and the cache really is just a collection of images and stuff that doesn't work offline (because of Web 2.0 and AJAX). sidenote: I guess Google Gears fixes that.

There is only one application that I know of that truly handles offline well, and that's Outlook when running Exchange Cached mode. It's phenominal. You just unplug you computer and you have all your stuff there. Of course, Entourage has always had an Offline mode by default, where in Outlook it was a "feature" that became seamless in Outlook 2003.

Anyway, my FAV feature of my FAV RSS Aggregator is now Offline mode. I have generally found that I read RSS feeds on flights to and from Redmond. But feeds like Engadget that are very image heavy are useless on a plane w/o an internet connection.

Well Nick just finished up a killer Offline feature for FeedDemon 2.5. It works exactly how I'd expect... and this pretty much rounds out almost everything I ever wanted in an RSS Reader .