FeedDemon Begone!
I became an RSS addict a year or two ago and have been trying to push people to get their blogs RSS enabled.
For those that don’t know, RSS basically lets you subscribe to websites so instead of having to check them periodically, they let you know when they’ve updated. Think of it like sending you your magazine instead of you going to the store everyday to see if the new issue is out.
Anywho, for the longest time, I used Trillian Pro because it had a built in plug-in. What better way to check feeds than having it build into your instant messaging software? But the software has been incredibly buggy, showing updates multiple times or sometimes not showing any update at all for days when the site has clearly been updated. Aside from that, I also couldn’t organize them and the list was growing quickly. I now have close to 80 RSS feeds.
So I finally tried a different program: FeedDemon which was better.from the organization standpoint. Two problems: 1) it wasn’t free and 2) it was a separate application.
Newsgator is a program that a colleague has recommended time and again. It’s a plug-in to Outlook and lets you organize everything as you would with Outlook, using search folders, regular folder hierarchies, etc. Sounded like the perfect tool for me except again, it wasn’t free but it also wasn’t expensive and I was about ready to just pull out the wallet as soon as FeedDemon’s trial period was over.
Then I found intraVnews and in the 5 mins since I’ve instealled it, it looks good. There are some usability issues that I won’t get into but overall, it does everything I want and it’s a free plug-in to Outlook. Huzzah!
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