Another essential tool is of course a feed reader. The first one I’ve tried is one that made me jealous about the fact that it is only available for OS X. The tool is called Vienna.
It has of course all the basic features, but also has more advanced things like smart folders. Those work like the smart playlists in iTunes. You just enter a set of criteria and that folder will only display articles that fit those criteria. You can select on text, date, read etc.
Default smart folders are “Marked articles”, “Unread articles” and “Articles posted today”.
Another thing I really like and is lacking in Sharpreader on Windows XP is the ability to have links opened in a new window, but on the background. In Sharpreader opening a link in the external browser always makes that window come to the foreground, while I often just want to open a bunch of them there first while scanning my feeds. Really nice tool.