Snarfer was the first aggregator I found that behaved well on my system when I had 200+ feeds. But this summer, I applied a filter, deleted all the lame and stupid blogs, and finally was left with about 100. The other reasons I chose Snarfer were that it’s lightweight, low on resources, very fast and simple to use.
BUT. Yesterday, after days of being bugged by the Update manager in Snarfer, I decided to update it. The surprise was another tab, one that cannot be closed:
A sponsored tab, containing a crappy website iGoogle-like (and My Yahoo! and Netvibes and Microsoft Live, etc..). The fact that I didn’t was notified before the update really upset me. Ok, I understand, you’re a small company, like a MicroISV, and you need money to function correctly. But why don’t you release a pro version of Snarfer? Why don’t you tell the user about what’s in the update? I see now that there are some screenshots on the website, and they all have the sponsored tab. But who analyzes them? From 100 ft (that’s the perspective someone is looking at some screenshots of a program he’s been using for about ten months) you just don’t see it.
I’ve read the version change log and saw the announcement:
Integrated with the Pagefoobar personalized start page.
Oh.. i’ve always wanted that!
Ok, back to FeedReader. Other ideas?
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FeedDemon ( http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/FeedDemon/Default.aspx )
I’ve heard about it in a Hanselminutes podcast, recommended by Scott himself. I’ve tried it and never looked at another RSS Agregator.
I cand’t say which features make it better, the whole product is very good.
Tell me if you like it
This is great. Too bad it costs money. I’ll think about it after the 30 days trial. But after a day of using it, I say it’s worth all it’s money.
Thanks.
I stopped worrying about readers when I discovered Google Reader (and that was when I got tired of trying out different readers). What I like the most is that being a web app I don’t worry about synchronizing my subscriptions and a “read” article is always “read” no matter on what machine I am working on. The “share” feature is also cool (I just discovered it). Basically you mark articles you like as “shared” and other people can see them. Another benefit is that I don’t need to worry about proxies, feedburner being blocked here in China.
Yes, well, I don’t like Google Reader. It’s too heavy and slow, even on a very fast connection. Also, both Opera and FF reach sky-high memory consumptions. I’d rather sync with something like NewsGator to read feeds on every machine I’m working on.
Ce? N-ai auzit de cel mai bun cititor de RSS gratuit, adică de GreatNews ( http://www.curiostudio.com/ ) ? E tradus şi-n română pe deasupra.
Yeah.. What? You haven’t heard about the the the GREATEST FOOTBALL TEAM IN THE WORLD? Mancester United… The fact that it’s in Romanian, as you can see, doesn’t impress me.
In the end, I shall use FeedDemon.
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