Tools of the (feed) trade: switching to FeedDemon & NetNewsWire

After a couple of years happily using NewsGator for Outlook, I have finally de-installed it from my machine. The latest release of FeedDemon (2.0) has brought that product at par with NetNewsWire – which in turn has been ported on top of the NewsGator Online back-end.

Both products offer a flexible and powerful navigation, allowing me to go through my 300 feeds pretty quickly, one feed or one category at a time. Not being able to easily browse and mark read all posts related to a category is what got me of NewsGator.

I had a chance to chat with Nick Bradbury, the creator of FeedDemon, tonight at the Root party and mentioned to him that it would be great if FeedDemon was getting closer to NetNewsWire in terms of folder navigation. And as far as NNW, it is not possible to forward a post by email in Entourage for some reason, and it is a bummer. I know that not that many people have the need to read feeds on Macs and PCs seamlessly, but it is nice to have my use case covered.

Finally, as we are in the Tools chapter, I want to give a shout to co.mments.com developed by pal Assaf Arkin and to FeedBurner’s FeedFlare.

Tags: FeedDemon, NetNewsWire

Comments

[Nick Bradbury]

Nice to have you as a FeedDemon customer, Jeff - thanks for blogging about it :)

[assaf]

Thanks :-)

I love FeedDemon, I had a hard time giving it up when I switched to Linux.

FeedDemon has an option for adding external tools, which show up at the top of each post (at least in the new styles). You can add comment tracking with the URL:
http://co.mments.com/track/track?url={$itemlink}

That way you can track comments on a post straight from FeedDemon.

[Serge Lescouarnec]

I really like co.mments for its ease of us.

I guess I will take a look at feeddemon 2.0

I do like to meander though.

Serge
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[Assaf]

Oops, got that wrong. The correct URL is:

http://co.mments.com/track/track?url=$ITEM_LINK$

Full instructions for using FeedDemon and co.mments here:
http://blog.co.mments.com/2006/05/27/using-comments-with-feeddemon/