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anti-mega: RSS. Sucks.

March 31, 2003

anti-mega: RSS. Sucks.

Chris Heathcote brings up some valid points about the current state of the art of RSS aggregators, something that I heartily agree with.

I’ve had reasonbly good luck recently with Syndirella on the PC.  The thing I like most? It’s a “3 pane” aggregator that opens a browser window within the third pane, rather than launching an external browser (you can easily do the latter, of course, with “open in new window” or by double-clicking the entry title in the second pane.

This is also the feature that’s missing from NewsGator that’s keeping it from being my tool of choice.

The downside of Syndirella is that at the moment, it has no way of organizing the feeds; it’d be nice to be able to categorize them by folders, or at least alphabetize them.



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