Comments on: Which RSS reader?

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:24:55 +0000

I found Sharpreader to be a good, lightweight, reader for many years. There’s nothing wrong with it, although the MSN messenger style popups used to annoy me a bit (RSS Bandit uses the standard system tray popups, which is better for me).

The clincher for me though is also what differentiated RSS Bandit from RSS Owl… The newspaper style view This is where RSS Bandit shows every single unread news item (in full, not just headlines) on one page. It used to take me a long time (and many mouse clicks) to read through every feed in Sharpreader, but with RSS Bandit I can do it very quickly, since I can scan down what is effectively just one long, well formatted, web page.

By: Brett

Brett — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 03:45:55 +0000

So in what ways is RSS Bandit better than SharpReader?

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:21:41 +0000

No probs

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:17:36 +0000

Ah, got it, it needed configuring with the proxy details, my bad Thanks David!

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:14:23 +0000

Most of the web is browsable normally, except for certain types of sites, i.e. pornographic, or personal hosting (geocities, etc). We have no control over the proxy, that’s managed by IT.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:47:44 +0000

Jay, perhaps your firewall/proxy at work requires authentication. There should be configuration options in the software for that.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:40:47 +0000

Weird, neither load any feeds for me at work. We have some web censorship software running here, but I don’t see why it would block http requests to non-explicit content. Bummer.

I agree though, RSSOwl does look infinitely better than the alternative.