FeedDemon 2.0 Beta
I noticed over on Brad Feld’s blog that the first beta of FeedDemon 2.0 has been released.
As I seem to be permanently on a quest to find the perfect RSS reader (well, for me anyway), I thought I’d give it a try. I wasn’t holding out too much hope as the 1.x series of the product didn’t really agree with me.
I am very happy to report that FeedDemon 2.0 completely blew me away.
The UI is nice and responsive, the tree view is nice (though I really wish it would support sub-folders).
I especially like the “River of News”/Newspaper implementation, and all it all it just looks and feels nice and polished.
But for me, the real wow moment happened when I selected a feed from Flickr. Above the content appeared a thumbnail pane that contained all the pictures. Clicking on them takes you to the specific Flickr photo page.
Oh, and did I mention the feature that keeps track of (and presents to you) information about which feeds you’re paying the most (and least) attention to? Mind you, I’m not sure if this is a real Attention implementation. I can’t seem to find an attention.xml file anywhere…
Very, very cool. Newsgator has a winner on their hands.
Well done Nick.
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Thanks for blogging about FeedDemon 2.0, Steve! FeedDemon stores its attention data in the same OPML file that contains your subscriptions.
hey top
me been looking for a good one aswell
will check out (:
This looks like a great feature, but for the life of me I can't get the thumbnails to appear when I view my Flickr atom feed in FeedDemon 2.0 Beta 1.
I installed into a different folder to where 1.6 was installed, so I only have the four default styles - is this something to do with it?
Steve,
I am currently using Thunderbird 1.5 for my mail, news, and RSS. How do these other programs differ from Thunderbird and what is better and what is worse about them when comapred to Thunderbird?
I, too, am always on the lookout for a better RSS feed. After all, I get double RSS postings (or more) for several of the MSFS Dev Team blogs.
Thanks,
Chris
(to email me, just remove ".example" from my email address--Thanks spammers for making me resort to these tricks)
David - I subscribe to the RSS feeds rather than the atom feeds. That might be it.
Chris - It's really because the app is geared towards syndicated content rather than email style content. Give it a go and see for yourself ;-)
btw, I don't publish the email address...