What's your favorite Feed Reader?

I use SharpReader. I tried James Goslings Java reader first but I fell in love with SharpReader.

Newsgator for me. Love having feeds available in Outlook and subscribing to new feeds through IE is very easy.

I liked the Blogmatrix Jager but creating folders and drag + drop was a huge pain. Too much interface hullabaloo to really be efficient for me.

It also took too much of my startup time as well.

Hated NewsGator, it acted strange, doesn't like those who don't use IE, and for my Firefox-loving self, it just didn't do it for me.

I'll try some others listed here, maybe I'll find something that fits.

Evan
http://www.misterorange.com

NewsGator.  It's the Outlook integration that makes it my choice (and for many others, it sounds like).

I want to centralize all my communication into one point, and Outlook is the single-best (although far from perfect) choice for that right now.

#R rocks in so many ways, it's hard to list them. It's like some kind of drug and every time I try to kick the habit by toying with some other drug, I'm back to #R by the day's end.

FeedDemon for me.  Tried SharpReader, bought a license for NewsGator, but the speed and slickness of FeedDemon wins out.  CSS "newspapers" and drag-and-drop into news bins are just icing on the cake...

I've tried RSSBandit, but the icon is just too wierd for my tastes.

I enjoy SharpReader because it is just so simple.  No need to add "fluff" and ruin what should be a simple program.

Another vote for bloglines...

I actually like desktop aggregators such as Newsgator much better however I am trying to move as much functionality off my computer and on the the net as possible.  By doing this I will be able to access more of my apps from any web enabled device and from anywhere in the world.  I want the NET to be my PC so in principle bloglines it is.  I just spent all day killing all of my email subscriptions that are overflowing my inbox in favor of RSS feeds, if you don't have an RSS feed I don't need your updates and news.

csells wrote:

#R rocks in so many ways, it's hard to list them. It's like some kind of drug and every time I try to kick the habit by toying with some other drug, I'm back to #R by the day's end.

   Stay away from that drug Rory's taking....give him our regards if you see him.


I have been using  it Gets Atom and legacy RSS.

SharpReader (www.sharpreader.net). Absolutely. No intention of switching, either.

I usually opt for the simplest possible application to satisfy a set of needs for a given task. SharpReader is the perfect solution to my problem of needing a simple application to keep up with < 50 feeds.

The interface is simple, it's .NET, and Luke is a great guy (although LUke's status as a fine human-being isn't why I continue to choose SharpReader).

The other readers I've tried have just felt too bloated, too this, or too that. I'm not going to name them, though, as they're all fine products that obviously satisfy other users, and there's no need to go trashing things.

I realize that there are other readers out there that might offer more "sophisticated" management of feeds and posts, but my feeling is that if your feeds are so tough to manage, then you're probably due for some major subscription refactoring anyway. Blogs are only useful as long as there's a good info/cost ratio. If you have so many feeds that you need some serious help managing them, then it's possible that you need to check into the Betty Ford Clinic for Information Addiction (note: Scoble is exempt from this rule - I probably wouldn't find out about so many new/different blogs if it weren't for the fact that he follows so many).

So, yeah - SharpReader. SharpReader, SharpReader, SharpReader...

eagle wrote:

   Stay away from that drug Rory's taking....give him our regards if you see him.

I have been using  it Gets Atom and legacy RSS.

Hey, Paul I've actually reduced the dosage of the drug by about 33%. That has had its own set of problems, but I'm hoping to be off the stuff before long and back on track. I feel just the *tiniest* bit less incredibly awful.

Abilon www.abilon.org .  Quick to download and run (no .Net)

Nice tabbed interface.

Doesn't handle ATOM too well.

T

Used SharpReader, but switched to RssBandit for the upload/download feed facility and the ability to post comments from within agg.

Comment on Video Rss Feed: Where did the "Watch Video" link go, as this was easiest by far way to watch the videos as I use Firefox and they don't seem to play (probably a combination of Firefox and work NTLM proxy as it seemed to work from home).

I like Newsgator.  I should actually buy it, but just don't want to.

SharpReader could actually be better and heres how i think it could be done, so Luke if you're reading.

With the open source WiX i would like to see an MSI installer as i do hate extracting zip files and finding out it just runs where i extracted too i prefer all my programs being in prog files.

The browser needs a back and forward and stop button. i'm sure this will be easier in VS.Net 2005   ut i'm unwilling to wait that long. 

How about the ability to update builds from inside the app, like Smart FTP does (sorry i always use that example, it's my fave ftp app)?

Newsgator at home, the Outlook integration is tidy, especially the 'flags' feature to mark posts for reading later on.

Sharpreader at work (no Outlook here). I tried RSSBandit and a couple of others but i'm too used to using Sharpreader now that it would take something pretty revolutionary to change. With a gig of ram you don't miss the massive amount of memory sharpreader eats.

I haven't found a nice rss reader for the smartphone yet, so i'm writing my own. If you're interested in beta testing please get in touch

I like sharpreader, its just too memory intensive. At any given time it likes to use 50mb of memory. (According to Task Manager)

Rory wrote:

SharpReader (www.sharpreader.net). Absolutely. No intention of switching, either.
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It’s great to see so much enthusiasm from early adapters centered on the features.

This is going to help all of us as we begin to write Web Services.

I really like SharpReader for its solid reliability, support of comments, good UI/keyboard shortcut design, etc. Once I added wBloggar I could upload/edit my own blog pretty easily from within the tool.

I've been testing out a beta product called Sauce Reader, which has some great additional features (grouping of items, auto-previewing items, built in blog editor, IE toolbar for blogging entries from within IE, different styles for viewing feeds, etc.). The developers are very active and receptive to feedback for features, so as soon as it adds support for comments, it'll probably be my main aggregator.