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Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Lloyd Humphreys — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:12:54 GMT

I dont exactly use one yet, but im learning VB and i plan to build one.

:P

Lloyd [6]

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

harumscarum — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:45:00 GMT

rss bandit for me

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Loadsgood — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:55:28 GMT

I am a very happy user of the DesktopSidebar it has the time, weather, Performance of the computer (CPU/MEM/NET/DISK), Notes, is highly compatible with Outlook (tells you when you have unread mail msgs etc.) It reads XML, RSS, KLIP 1.0 but doesn't read Atom well (yet). Also can play music files through Windows Media/ Win Amp (even if they are closed) is compatible with Win Messenger and Miranda IM. Has Stock Panel and also comes with Command line and has quick launch part as well. Your probably thinking it must be really big fill up the screen, but it doesn't you can add/remove panels to your will, it starts up and stays on at a low performance % for your convenience. And it can permenatly stick to the side of the screen and readjust the maximum size of your window so you can still read it while working. Its also completely free!

Go here to get it: www.desktopsidebar.com

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

georgech — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:55:13 GMT

I use NewsGator at work because it's integrated with Outlook. At home, I've finally settled on SharpReader. I tried RSS Bandit and tried real hard to like it. In the end, I just couldn't get used to having read feeds hanging around until they expired.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Wes — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:44:49 GMT

Been using FeedDemon for a while now and it's great. Setup a bloglines account but rarely use it. Never liked NewGator for some reason.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Jorriss — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:17:08 GMT

Since I'm in Outlook ALL DAY LONG. I use NewsGator. It's a great way to have all of your messages in one handy place.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

mkizer — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:39:10 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

eagle — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:33:54 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

darklotus — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:30:30 GMT

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

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Richard Acton — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:32:52 GMT

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 :)

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Jaz — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:30:27 GMT

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)?

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

samjudson — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:45:19 GMT

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).

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Tryfen — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:28:03 GMT

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

Nice tabbed interface.

Doesn't handle ATOM too well.

T

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Rory — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:03:26 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Rory — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:00:48 GMT

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...

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

eagle — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 18:00:14 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

manofsteel — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:58:29 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

cageyjames — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:24:44 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

jonathanh — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 05:25:05 GMT

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...

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

csells — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 04:07:33 GMT

#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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

JasonMelton — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 03:24:13 GMT

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.

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

misterorange — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 02:24:42 GMT

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

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

tomeppy — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 01:30:23 GMT

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

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

rjdohnert — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:39:45 GMT

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

Re: What's your favorite Feed Reader?

Haacked — Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:20:10 GMT

I like RSS Bandit because it can synchronize my feeds, read items, unread items between work and home.

Phil