Win32 RSS / Atom Feed Reader
November 14, 2006
Can any of you recommend a Win32 RSS / Atom feed reader? I’m liking Vienna on OS X, and Google Reader, but Google Reader just suddenly breaks all too often. And by breaks I mean fails to update feeds for long periods of time, if ever.
And Firefox sucks for feeds, because if I nest a bunch under one bookmark toolbar entry I have to drill down to each to check if there is anything new there.
I used to use Feed Demon. I really liked it alot.
I use Vienna when I am on my Mac. It seems to always work (well).
Win32, on the other hand hasn’t been as rosy. I started out using Thunderbird, which worked at first. After a month or so, it would re-download errant articles, sometimes downloading them 7 or 8 times, and it would download about 20 articles at a time. It’s like it can’t keep track of which articles were new and which ones are old.
I switched to RSS Bandit, which worked, but I wasn’t too fond of the interface. Also, I like to keep my System Tray relatively clean, and running another program thats chomps on my CPU cycles didn’t sit too well with me.
At the moment I am using Google Reader. I haven’t had the problem of articles not being displayed, but what bugs me is that I can’t tell the software when/how often to look for new feeds. It seems to check every hour or so, but I’d like some sort of a “refresh” button to check for new feeds.
I agree with you about Firefox 2’s built-in RSS feed reader. I may try Bloglines soon.
Try Sage or one of the other firefox extensions?
SharpReader
In the past I use sharpreader (http://www.sharpreader.net/) I haven’t use RSS reader lately simply because it’s a hassle with the corporate firewall at work. Everytime I bypass their firewall they’ll patch it up and I can’t even get IM to work :( But yeah check out SharpReader. I really like it when I used it about 2 years ago and that was a alpha/beta release, I’m sure it’s a lot better since that time.
Re: SharpReader
Huh, thanks. This one appears to not suck.
The cost is also right, too.