Nick Bradbury has released the 2.0 beta for FeedDemon. There are a bunch of new features, but my favourite, the one I’ve been waiting for, is the new tree structure for the folders list (think the folders list in Windows Explorer). This means no more switching between folders, I can have multiple, or in fact all of my folders open at once, showing what’s new and what isn’t. By default FeedDemon 2.0 is set to auto-collapse folders as you expand a new one which, for me at least, defeats the purpose of the exercise. So to turn this off go to ‘Tools’ -> ‘Options’ -> ‘Reading’ and untick ‘automatically collapse folders’ then click ‘OK’.
Clicking on the top of the subscriptions tree also gives you a nice list of all feeds with unread items, and a collation of your most and least visited feeds. The only thing that I can see that’s missing is the ‘blog this item’ tool, which automatically send the contents of a news item to your blog post window. This was handy, but maybe it’s just turned off in the options & I’m not seeing it.
Anyway, I’m pretty darn happy with this new version, the speed especially is great, it switches between feeds almost instantly. As always, great work Nick!
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Thanks for blogging about the new FeedDemon – glad you like it!
Oops – clicked “Submit” too soon
The “BlogThis” feature isn’t in beta 1, but it will return before the final release.
Yay!
Ooh.. I’m still using ye olde sharpreader, everything I’ve tried since has been too bloated or clunky. Maybe I should give feeddemon a closer look..
Yes, yes you should! It’s ~$40, but if you live on RSS (as I do) it’s well worth it (and tax deductable!)
Download the demo. (and if you do decide to get it, you could be nice and use this link)
Thanks for blogging about the new FeedDemon – glad you like it!
Oops – clicked “Submit” too soon
The “BlogThis” feature isn’t in beta 1, but it will return before the final release.
Yay!
Ooh.. I’m still using ye olde sharpreader, everything I’ve tried since has been too bloated or clunky. Maybe I should give feeddemon a closer look..
Yes, yes you should! It’s ~$40, but if you live on RSS (as I do) it’s well worth it (and tax deductable!)Download the demo. (and if you do decide to get it, you could be nice and use this link)