Paul Edwards's Blog

RSS Bandit

I'm a big user of SharpReader for reading blogs, I thought perhaps it's time to have a look at one of the others to see what they now offer.

I looked at RSSBandit about 6 months ago and wasn't convinced it gave me anything that SharpReader didn't. Then, over the last few days I read Steve's entry about the latest version, so I thought that today was as good a day as any, so I downloaded the latest preview release. After installing it I couldn't get the proxy stuff to work (also found that it didn't seem to remember the proxy settings I had entered in between starts), so uninstalled it and went to the previous version.

So, at the moment I have version 1.2.0.117 and it seems ok so far. Have got the proxy stuff working on this one, so must have been broken in the latest version (or it's me!). So will give it a few weeks of use before I go straight back to SharpReader.

One thing that struck me was a utility to convert the SharpReader cache rss files into RSSBandit cache files would be useful as I use the filtering on SharpReader quite a lot as I have about 41000 entries at the moment and there a lot of very useful information in there that's a shame to lose just because of a change of aggregator.

If anyone knows of such a tool, let me know please.

Cheers.