In the past I have been a big fan of NewsGator and pretty much used it exclusively. However, one particularly irritating feature of some blogs is that they only supply the title, posting URL, and date in the RSS feed, forcing one to go to the website to view the body. intraVnews deals with this issue displaying the posting URL content below the blog content. This is a fantastic feature that allows one to still follow blogs that don't provide a body. (This begs the question that perhaps blogs that don't provide a body should continue to be boycotted regardless of the tools to overcome the problem.)
I am currently giving intraVnews a try and so far I am reasonably pleased. In fact, I have NewsGator and intraVnews installed simultaneously without problem. My two negative comments on intraVnews relate to
- Moving blog folders - The UI for this is rather cumbersome and time consuming if there are lots of blogs.
- The scheduler to download doesn't appear to autostart (presumably a setting I haven't found yet.)
One of the key items I need to investigate soon relates to exporting the settings of the RSS reader and then importing them once I re-install the OS.
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