Datagrid Girl

I know you're on the rebound but you really should give RSS Bandit a try. All the cool kids are doing it.

Hey,

I had similar issues with SharpReader myself and so I've switched to intraVnews, which integrates wonderfully with Outlook 2003. A little monkeying around with views and some search folders, and I've got a great RSS Reader. Doesn't like Atom unfortunately.

And free for personal use. which is the kicker of course!

http://www.intravnews.com/

good luck.

Just make sure you practice safe RSS.

Marcie:

One that I've been using recently is called OmniaMea by JetBrains.

This is more than just an aggregator... think of it as a personal information manager.

Get some more information about it here: http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/

Actually I do have some ideas to fix the memory issues in SharpReader - either by dynamically unloading and reloading items, or possibly by switching to database-based storage. That last option would allow for the best scalability, but will also take some serious refactoring, so that would take a while to implement. I'll probably do option #1 first.

I'm not experiencing any hangs myself - the next time this happens for you, could you please email me your sharpreader.log files (from your app settings/sharpreader directory) and I'll see if I can figure out what's going on there. Your opml may help me reproduce the problem as well... thanks!

and don't worry - no matter what you decide, we can still be friends; #R may need a DataGrid one day...

I use BLOGLINES...it's easy and small.

Marcie, listen to Dare. I don't mind of the bandit cheats on me.

you could give SauceReader a try ..
http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

Is there anywhere a good review of these applications?

Martin: you can find a lot of aggregator reviews at http://email.about.com/cs/rssfeedreaders/tp/top_rss_windows.htm or http://email.about.com/cs/rssfeedreaders/tp/windows_free.htm

I agree with Dare. You should try RSS Bandit. I've been really happy with it.

+1 for intravniews. Very smooth product. Not quite as full featured as newsgator, but the price is spot on.

I have to admit, I didn't used to even like RSS Bandit, but the new version is pretty hot. Perhaps you should flirt with it first and you won't have to keep looking for another.

Check this free reader, Marcie:
http://www.synop.com/Products/SauceReader/

I used to use Bloglines. All in all a pretty good product, but it has one critical flaw: you can't mark individual posts as read. If you fall behind on a high-traffic site, you have to read all 300-400+ entries in a single go. I made this suggestion awhile back, but I don't know if they've done anything about it.

The best solution I've found has centered around Exchange. It gives you the ubiquitous access of Bloglines, and, when you're on the network or your laptop, the full rich UI of Outlook.

Initially I used Intravnews - the price was particularly appealing. It also had a nice feature that lets you download the HTML behind the entry. The only problem was, it wouldn't seem to turn off - and this made my mailbox grow very quickly, especially on sites that use heavy graphics and anchors instead of separate pages for entries.

I've since been using Newsgator, and it's been a bit smoother. I'll probably purchase soon.

I haven't used RSS Bandit recently, but I'm told it has made huge strides recently. I particularly like the sync features that had been added. They also recently added Outlook-like features such as search folders and follow-up flags.

I still figure, why not use Outlook itself and get all those features for free? :)

Marcie, only you could talk about dating an RSS aggregator and get away with it. funny stuff.

Mmmh, whats up with Luke?? His website was last updated in October 2006. Are there any updates planed on SharpReader?