![]() Either way they are items that have different priorities than feeds I subscribe to. Those items are either work related or spam. But, as much as I thought it was a great idea to have an RSS reader integrated into Outlook, I got to the point where I really wanted it separate. A huge plus for NewsGator and a reason why I kept going back to it. Since NewsGator exists inside of Outlooks let's you take advantage of everything that Outlook offers as far as search folders and more. One of my favorite features of NewsGator was that it added some browser integration so you could right-click on a RSS link in your browser and select “subscribe in NewsGator”. Seemed to make so much sense to me that it was one of those things I was kicking myself about for not thinking of it first. NewsGator was awesome for the fact that it was just a freakin cool idea. It's just not all that good on the eyes IMO. But as I said, functionally, it gives you everything you need in an aggregator - so I am not saying that Luke didn't do an awesome job or anything. I know you can turn them off - but I do want tray notifications, just not a separate one for every feed. Drab Windows98 looking 256-color icons and an overall boring look to it (Sorry Luke). Nothing exciting and I think the UI leaves a lot to be desired. It does everything an aggregator needs to do. It supports the CommentAPI, which is cool and a huge plus IMO. It is a really popular one in the circles I am in so obviously it got a lot of things right. SharpReader is a great aggregator - functionally. But overall, a completly awesome job Dare (and other sourceforge team members) I don't really care for silly looking software (at least since it is open source I can change that myself if I really want to). It is ugly and does not match the rest of the clean and XP/Office/VS/etc look of the application. The only gripes I had about RSSBandit are very small (and they're not really gripes, just small things I'd change if it were mine). I like that it does not pull down a second copy of the post, however I do wish it would somehow indicate that the contents of the post has changed. Also, when a post is updated, it just updates the content of the post (seems to pull it each time you view it instead of caching it?). Search folders and some cool searching features. ![]() I love the “auto-discover” feeds, where you can scan a given URI for feeds. For me, that was one of the biggest things in the favor of RSSBandit. ![]() RSSBandit has a nice interface and has a really clean and professional look to it. One of the things that I was wanting in an aggregator was support for the CommentAPI so I could read and post comments from it. Please let me know if I've misrepresented any of these. Note: I've tried to base all this on the current versions of these applications. ![]()
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