January 9th, 2008 | No Comments
FeedDemon Now Free
My favourite RSS feed reader, FeedDemon, is now available for free!
Developer Nick Bradbury has just announced that FeedDemon, plus the rest of the Newsgator suite of RSS tools for individuals, can now be downloaded without charge - kind of a loss-leader for their Enterprise software.
After having tried a mixture of web and desktop-based feed readers in the past (such as Bloglines, Google Reader, and FeedReader), I settled on FeedDemon a couple of years ago. It was subsequently coupled with Newsgator’s online reader, which, together with the desktop synching, allows you to read your feeds from pretty much anywhere, in a variety of ways, without having to read the same item more than once. Pretty priceless when you’re trying to keep on top of hundreds of feeds.
I’d seriously recommend you try it out - just export your feeds from your current RSS reader, sign up for your account and / or download the software and see what you think.
I have to admit, I haven’t used the likes of Bloglines or Google Reader for a while, so it’s difficult for me to know how they compare to FeedDemon, so uf you do try it out, let me know what you think in the comments below.
Other tools available for free include a plugin for Outlook, and a mobile RSS reader - plenty of options for your feed reading needs.
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