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Trying out a new aggregator
I'm trying out a new news aggregator called SharpReader. PC World seems to like it ast they gave it 4.5 our of 5 stars. It works on windows XP and you need .NET framework 1.1. That is a pretty hefty requirement (a 20GB+ download if you don't alread have it) yet I suppose that isn't much different that having to down load a new JRE.
I just started using it so we'll have to see how it goes. So far I like it. The interface is pretty intuitive and you can import/export your feeds. This was handy for setting things up on my laptop and transferring them to my home desktop. I like how you can easily pop up a properties pane for your feeds and change the settings fo rhow often (on a feed by feed basis) it refreshes. You can also set how the program Auto Purges you old feeds. This you can set to how long and or how many items and if is should purge unread items. You can also organize your feeds into folders. One nifty feature there is that you can click on the folder name then select mark all read.The latest version is 0.9.3.2 so I suppose it is still considered beta. One drawback so far is that is does not work with Atom feeds. Another good reason to use a service to convert my atom feeds to rss :)
Updated: Feb 26 I had the link to PC World wrong. I've fixed it. This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 10:48 PM.
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