FeedReader 3.1 RSS Reader Review

We love simplicity,dont we? And an emphatic yes when we get said simplicity for free. There, thats the bottom line for this review. I found this smart little piece of software in last month’s (December 07) Digit DVD, and I must say I’m quite impressed. Now there’s nothing out of the ordinary in this thing, but the fact that it was free,simple and smart made me want to review it.

Interface

Simple, clean, no-nonsense and intutive, that pretty much sums everything up about the interface. It uses the classic three pane view to show your feeds. Though, you do have other ways to display(2 column and news style). In my opinion, a newbie shouldn’t have any problem at all trying to organize their feeds. Brownie points for FeedReader.

Features

• FR has a feature called SmartFeed which allows you to sort feeds according to your whims and fancies. And while you are at it, you can convert a feed to a smartfeed and back. Whatay fun! [:-p].

• One more nifty feature is the pop-up notification. What this does, is give a small but not irritating, pop-up at the bottom notifying about any feed updates.

• All feeds are available for offline browsing.

• Supports all Windows platforms i.e. Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.

• Works flawlessly even while using a proxy server.

• No spam, no ads, no nothing.

Performance

FeedReader comes in a 4MB package, and on my aging PC(P4 3.2GHz HT, 1GB Ram), it fired up very quickly. Thats why I say, the best things come in the smallest of packages.

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Conclusion

A supremely functional piece of sofware which is also very easy to use. I only wish it had some labelling feature, though. That would have made it the best RSS aggregator out there.

SatishSays dot Com Rating 7.5/10

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