FeedReader

I now use FeedReader as my RSS aggregator of choice. It’s very simple, it works, it has a small memory footprint, and it’s not loaded with an awful lot of useless features – which totally goes against the meaning of RSS – Really Simple Syndication

I’ve tried SharpReader before that, which seemed very promising in handling the feeds and sites, but after a few runs, I mysteriously got a bunch of unhandled exceptions which prevented the initialization of the app. Resintalling it didn’t work.

I suspect it had something to do with the .NET framework. I really don’t see why everyone’s raving about that blasted framework! I’ve experienced even my XDAII crashing because of it (a financial software I was using relied on it… I’ve since uninstalled both)

Now FeedReader does the job perfectly. I just want something that would check for updates every so often and not force an html output, as the FireFox plugin does. Having FeedReader saves valuable time by pre-fetching all the data, when FireFox required you to click on a site to update the contents. It also shows the articles as parsed XML first, before giving you the option to visit the html version of the article. That last feature is a biggie for me, and will probably be an invaluable feature for the dial-up community.