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FeedDemon v. RSS Bandit ... its down to synchronization
By Gearhead, NetworkWorld.com, 05/06/05
We had just laid down our $29.95 for FeedDemon when we discovered RSS Bandit.
Of all of the RSS readers we looked at FeedDemon, created by Nick Bradbury who is also the author of HomeSite (now owned by Macromedia), had appeared to be the best with a tabbed browser, news bins, watches, and search channels.
RSS Bandit has arguably a less polished interface but it has more or less all the features FeedDemon has and the ability to synchronize across multiple computers. And it is free!
The way RSS Bandit's synchronization works is by saving the IDs of the blog items you've read to a storage location by FTP, as a file saved on local or network storage, using WebDAV to a Web server or, if you are a dasBlog user to your dasBlog blog. To save you hit the key combination CTRL+SHIFT+U to upload the current state.
Any machine running RSS Bandit that has access to your save location can load your configuration file and will update its status to match the one recorded from another PC using the key combination CTRL+SHIFT+D. Way cool for keeping your blog reading synchronized between home and work.
We just wish that there was an automatic save option or, the ultimate solution, RSS Bandit could just read all of those gazillion feeds for us and we could pop of for a quiet drink.
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