Comments on: Personalized Desktop News Feeds

By: Antonina

Antonina — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:49:31 +0000

I like it as well. It has very nice & innovative interface – it’s not like all other news readers out there.
Some other things I like, not mentioned here:
- news ticker (a little bit unstable right now, but cool)
- speech output
- Buzz (something like your local “techmeme.com”)
- quick search

By: Jonas Martinsson

Jonas Martinsson — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:07:06 +0000

Interesting! Finally someone, among the thousands of RSS readers, who does something innovative with the GUI.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:22:05 +0000

Have you tried FeedDemon from www.newsgator.com? It used to be a pay program, but just went free upon updating to version 2.6. In addition you can sync with a free account at newsgator.com so you can keep both up to date and synced.

I’ve been using FeedDemon for a couple years. I actually paid for it back then to use the pro version. It has been the best newsreader I’ve ever seen and I did an extensive search for good newsreaders. In addition they have other programs that recently went free too including a mac newsreader.

I personally use Feeddemon to download my podcasts I listen to or watch. It works better than most of the podcatchers out there, except it doesn’t play them… then again I usually play them on my mp3 player or on my tv so what do I need a player in the same program for?

By: Bob Jones

Bob Jones — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:49:09 +0000

I use Bloglines. Netvibes didn’t cut it for me as it’d only show 10 items and you couldn’t mark them as read, so I’d constantly miss out on things on sites that publish a lot and on sites which don’t I’d constantly see the same stuff again …