Rodent Regatta

I’ve been using SharpReader to gather RSS feeds for quite some time now. This afternoon, I copied all of my RSS subscriptions over to FeedDemon to begin a careful review of version 1.0 beta 2a.

A couple of key observations:

• In SharpReader I had all of my categories of feeds and the feeds within each category arranged in a reading priority order. I haven’t found anything similar in FeedDemon.
• SharpReader permits dragging and dropping feeds or URL’s for auto-discovery and for placement within categories. Subscribing to a feed in FeedDemon requires a few more steps/clicks.
• SharpReader’s ”tree-view” of all the feeds allows you to expand all categories and view all subscriptions or scroll through them. I haven’t found anything similar in FeedDemon.
• SharpReader appears to handle images in feeds better than FeedDemon at this point.
• There’s another more significant question. How do you launch a web site from within FeedDemon? If I want to read the entire site, I just double-click in SharpReader and I’m taken to the site using my browser. I haven’t found anything similar in FeedDemon

There’s a lot more testing to do, and each of these products continues to advance. You can’t go wrong with either one.