On this delicious three day weekend (I love three day weekends), what would be more fun than a new version of FeedDemon. (Ok, I can think of a couple of things, but I’m the only one awake in my house at this point.)
I’ve been a rabid FeedDemon user for several years. I’ve tried every reader combination I could think of (web and desktop) and the FeedBurner / NewsGator Online combination is the way I deal with the 800+ feeds I read daily. Nick Bradbury is an artist when it comes to crafting Windows-based software. FeedDemon is his current work of art.
While FeedDemon has a pile of new features, Nick has his top five:
- Synchronized news bins with shared RSS feeds - share a FeedDemon "news bin" (similar to a link blog) as an RSS feed so that others may subscribe to it. Simply copy a post from any feed into a shared news bin, and everyone subscribed to that news bin's feed will get a copy of it. You can also drag-and-drop FeedDemon browser tabs - or even hyperlinks from an external browser - into a news bin to share those links.
- Vastly improved offline support - including the ability to prefetch links and images in all unread items for offline reading.
- Completely rewritten "Popular Topics" - view the most popular topics in all the feeds you're subscribed to, alongside the topics that are popular with all NewsGator subscribers.
- Embedded video support - video objects embedded in feed items can now be securely viewed inside FeedDemon.
- "Who's linking here?" - with a single click, find out who in the blogosphere is linking to a specific post in your subscriptions.
#2 – the offline support – is awesome. Given all my travel I often read my feeds offline on an airplane when my brain is tired – now I get the whole feed including links and images.
Great job Nick – again. Gotta go – Amy just woke up.
Posted in: My InvestmentsCOMMENTS (4)
Brad
Can you please export your OPML file from NewsGator and make it available? I am too lazy to go to each blog you follow and subscribe to them one by one.
thanks
Thanks for the ego boost, Brad :)
Brad - do you know if these features are part of the roadmap for the next version of NetNewsWire?
Mukund - Brad's OPML file is published on Share Your OPML, linked here:
Ken -- about NetNewsWire: NetNewsWire already has video support, and the upcoming NetNewsWire 3 will add synchronized clippings (the same thing as FeedDemon's news bins). I'm planning to add better offline support, popular topics, and who's-linking-here features in future versions.
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