Goodbye RSS Bandit, Hello FeedDemon

Published Tuesday, November 21, 2006 5:09 PM

Now that I have made the switch to Windows Vista full time I have had to re-think my RSS reader. I originally switched to RSS Bandit after being a long time FeedDemon user one day when FeedDemon pushed me over the edge with its activation. I work as a consultant and systems engineer and I love to beta test software and generally experiment. As such, I rebuild my laptop often. One to many times as far as FeedDemon was concerned. The first time it happened their support team was quick to clean it up. The next time it was weeks and in frustration I switched to a free RSS reader. I had heard good things about RSS Bandit and I wasn't disappointed. It is a fine reader and I loved it. Until I switched to Windows Vista. It has an annoying, and to its credit, documented bug that causes it to freeze every time you access a menu. Dare says it will be fixed in the next version code-named Jubilee. In the meantime, however, it is driving me nuts. If anyone has a meantime fix I would love to hear it! Otherwise, I am back to FeedDemon for now.

 

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by Chris Haaker
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# Brian S. Tucker said on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:30 PM

I used to be a RSS Bandit user a while back and to be honest, I simply use the RSS feed interface in Outlook 2007. I also use the Reader page here on TBR (registered users of course)... I don't think many people have played with that page... but it does work well and you can add in as many feeds as you like.