Jason's Favorite Windows apps: FeedDemon

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Jason's Favorite Windows apps: FeedDemon

by Jason Clarke Oct 7th 2008

FeedDemon has been the best RSS news reading application on the Windows platform for a long time. The folks at NewsGator certainly thought so, and instead of building their own standalone news aggregator for Windows, they bought FeedDemon. The best news is that though FeedDemon was at one time a commercial product (and worth every penny), it's now available for free.

Even when it was a standalone application FeedDemon got news reading right. The user interface is easy to interact with, and the application is solid. But now that it is a client for NewsGator's web application, it has gained another whole level of usefulness. FeedDemon synchronizes with your NewsGator account giving you the ability to keep your feeds in sync between it, your NewsGator web account, and any other clients you choose to use from NewsGator, including ones for most mobile phones, and even Macs.

Tags: FeedDemon, NewsGator, RSS, synchronization

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Peter said 3:19PM on 10-07-2008

FeedDemon is far and away the best desktop feed reader out the. It is one of the few applications I ever paid for, and like you said, worth every penny.

Sleepydude said 5:43PM on 10-07-2008

NetNewsWire is far better on the Mac. I tried FeedDemon because of it. It's ok. NetNewsWire just works beautifully with the keyboard commands in OS X. I don't need to touch the mouse to navigate and read my feeds.

Marco said 12:16PM on 10-08-2008

Yes, FeedDemon is really the best feed reader for Windows OS.

I can't help, but I just hate Google's online feed reader. No way to delete things and all this stuff... and it's just having some ugly interface.

Mahesh Chinnaiyan said 2:54PM on 10-08-2008

have you guys tried www.netvibes.com

Thats the only thing i use, and it is very easy to use and get new feeds. I have tried feeddemon but like netvibes better.

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