Sync your Google Reader, Newsgator feeds with RSS Bandit

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Sync your Google Reader, Newsgator feeds with RSS Bandit

by Brad Linder Jun 23rd 2008

At first glance, the latest version of RSS Bandit looks just like pretty much every other desktop RSS reader for Windows. In other words, it looks like Outlook. But this week saw the released of RSS Bandit 1.7 Alpha with one killer new feature: support for synchronization with your Google Reader or NewsGator feeds.

Here's how it works. You download and install the open source application, and then click the File menu and select Synchronize Feeds. Pick your service and enter your login information and RSS Bandit will import your feed list in a matter of seconds. Any actions you take using the desktop reader should then be reflected at your online feed reader. You can mark items as reader, unread, or shared. And you can subscribe to feeds or remove feeds using RSS Bandit and the changes should apply to your online account.

At least that's the theory. In practice, we're still waiting for our changes to show up in Google Reader. We read a few items, unsubscribed from a feed, and over an hour later Google Reader is showing no sign that it's noticed. This is still Alpha software, so it's possible speedier updates could come at a later date.

RSS Bandit 1.7 Alpha also adds a new podcast download manager.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: alpha, feed-reader, google-reader, newsgator, rss, rss-bandit, rss-bandit-1.7-alpha

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dare Obasanjo said 8:33PM on 6-23-2008

Hello Brad,
I'm the lead developer of RSS Bandit and would love to help in tracking down any issues you are having. If you still haven't gotten Google Reader sync to work, please respond to my comment or send me an email and I can try to locate the problem.

Fiona said 6:57AM on 6-27-2008

Dare, I think it's great that you're offering to help. I'd also love to see a comment posted with any information on whether you were able to help. This software sounds compelling, but if it really takes 1+ hours to sync with Google Reader, I'll probably just stick with reading it online. Thanks, though, for offering your help.

gidleys said 7:58AM on 6-25-2008

Erm... "RSS Bandit"...?!! Are we all school boys here?!

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