Sunday, February 15, 2004

As many of you know, I've been using SharpReader to keep up to date on web logs.  I track at least 40 daily, and my team at Motorola is now using web logs and aggregating RSS feeds to build and publish our weekly report.  Which is awesome by the way.

SharpReader has been frustrating me lately.  It seems to do strange things especially when using RDP to log into my workstation remotely...things like hog the cpu so much that the RDP client can't even shut it down.  This has bitten me several times when trying to do something important, and since I've got a new laptop, it's become essential. that I be able to use RDP without worrying.

Another RSS aggregator I looked at initially when I started using SharpReader was RSS Bandit.  At the time, it was a pretty small project and didn't have many features.  It has matured quite a bit and I am now using it as my aggregator of choice.  It's design has taken alot of concepts from Outlook 2003, which rocks (and is the first Outlook version to do so).

Anyway, just going public with the switch.  I'll let you look at the features and decide for yourself if it's right for you.

posted on Sunday, February 15, 2004 12:06:23 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [4]
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 11:32:28 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Wow, this rocks!
Monday, February 16, 2004 12:08:30 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Does the memory footprint of RSS Bandit bother you at all? It seems that every time I do something, it consumes more memory but doesn't let it go when I minimize it to the tray.
Pete
Monday, February 16, 2004 9:52:02 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
So far, the features and RDP-friendlyness of RSS Bandit outweight any memory footprint issues. Besides, I've found memory reporting in Windows to be a tricky thing that can be very misleading. RSS Bandit seems to behave fairly good if there's another process vying (sp?) to get memory, otherwise there's not much point in wasting cycles releasing memory if no one is there to use it.
I also like being able to comment from the aggregator.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:03:25 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yeah, posting from the aggregator is pretty dang cool!
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