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Checking out FeedDemon

David mentioned that Beta 1 of FeedDemon was released. After playing with it for a bit I must say that it's very nice. There are a few bugs that I've found that are pretty irritating (read: OPML import didn't work for me), but overall it shows a LOT of promise, and I look forward to future releases.

UPDATE: It looks like James is having the same problem I am. I exported a sample OPML file from FeedDemon and it appears to have some garbage characters in it. Perhaps the Import function shares these problems...

REUPDATE: So far my favorite little feature of FeedDemon is that when you add a new Channel (blog) by URL, it will automatically grab the text from your clipboard if it's a valid URL. That saved me quite a few seconds when I was manually re-entering all of the links on my blogroll...

Posted: Jun 26 2003, 11:18 PM by DanB | with 3 comment(s)

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# June 26, 2003 11:18 PM

James Avery said:

I got it figured out David, check my blog. :)
# June 26, 2003 11:25 PM

Nick Bradbury said:

Thanks for the kind words about FeedDemon, David! As James has already figured out, the OPML import problem is caused by OPML files missing the required <head> tag. As a workaround, you can simply add an empty <head /> before the <body> tag.

The "garbage characters" are actually a two-byte UTF-8 BOM (see http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html). Basically, this is a way to mark these files as UTF-8 encoded so that Unicode-enabled applications correctly read them.
# June 27, 2003 7:08 AM
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