SharpReader turns One. So what the fuck’s been going on the aggregator scene in that time? SharpReader is *still* the most professional of all the Windows desktop aggregators (despite being free!), a crown it took when it launched and looks unlikely to be forced to give up This must mean that I’ve been...

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In between looking at Sauce Reader, Sharpreader and Syndirella, I looked at pretty much all the other desktop aggregators in the weblog compendium and none of them were as good as these, by a large margin. All in all, what I’d like from an aggregator is just about covered by these three, but not by any one. The startup s...

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Sauce Reader Nice installer, nice tutorial/introduction screens. Slow startup (as with all the aggregators that use the .net runtime). Listens for feed:// URLs and listens on the radio port so you can click on the orange coffee mug on sites (although I hardly ever see these). Also auto-detects feeds for the current page viewed in the embedded web browser. Impor...

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And now for something, err, completely normal for bloggers: talking about aggregators. Because of Gareth I’ve been spending some time looking at different desktop aggregators. I haven’t used one as my main aggregator for about a year now, choosing instead to use the pretty-good JabRSS so it’s been an interesting journey to see what’s bee...

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