mongoozle

Howdy all. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for a good RSS aggregator (either desktop PC or PPC).

Furthermore, are there any RSS readers that installs onto the desktop PC and stores the news updates there, but has the ability to Activesync with the Axim to transfer over the newest articles? I was thinking of setting up a RSS reader on my desktop to use when I'm at home, but when I leave for work I want to sync over some of the new articles over to my Axim. I guess I could always set up two separate readers on my desktop PC and my PPC, but maybe there's a more centralized way? Is there a way through Outlook, so I could sync over the articles via the Inbox? Hahah, maybe I'm asking for too much. :p

Anyways, Aximsite rocks! This is actually my first post, but these forums have helped me through a lot of the growing pains with my new X30. :approve:

MobileSmith

FeederReader works completely on the Pocket PC. You can download text, audio, video, podcasts. Even get BitTorrent downloads (with separately purchased third-party product). It is a full-featured aggregator which makes it less necessary to have a desktop aggregator at all (I read, listen, and watch all RSS feeds on my Pocket PC).

I help users all the time over at the FeederReader Forums (www.FeederReader.com sidebar "Forums"). If you have any questions, ask!

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC RSS text, audio, video, podcasts
www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road

Vanamonde

Originally Posted by mongoozle

Howdy all. I was wondering if anybody has any suggestions for a good RSS aggregator (either desktop PC or PPC).

If you aren't interested in enclosure (podcast) suppot then on your Axim you can give pRSSreader a try, it's free:

http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/

If you want enclosure support you could download the trial version of Egress:

http://www.garishkernels.net/egress.html

I've found both programs much easier to use than feederreader.

MobileSmith

I very much appreciate your opinion that other programs are easier to use than FeederReader. I am open to discuss this! (probably better done at the FeederReader Forums).

There are some people that agree with your view, but there are also those that appreciate the flexibility of FeederReader.

There are a few things that FeederReader does that makes it flexible.

Expert/Basic mode.
One-tap file management-don't have to keep track of what you've listened to.
Download, Read, Listen all at the same time.
Optimized download of enclosures when storage is full.

FeederReader certainly does not limit you on what you can do at any one time. Start downloading, then read new feeds as they come it? Yep. Read the latest news, then start the next podcast without losing your reading place? Yep. Review error messages from the Feed update? Yep. Change download preferences for each category? Yep. Ignore the error messages from feed updates while reading already downloaded feeds? Yep. Handle any type of enclosure that you can use on your Pocket PC (PDF, video, Pocket Word/Excel, Mindmap, ANYTHING)? Yep.

If you always download all your podcasts and videocasts, and always listen to all podcasts prior to downloading. And then initiate downloading then wait for it to complete, you may find other programs easier.

Again, I'd love to hear your view on this or any other FeederReader impressions. Any specific suggestions to make FeederReader easier while retaining the flexibility would be appreciated. It helps me make FeederReader better!

Thanks!

Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - Pocket PC *direct* RSS text, audio, video, podcasts
www.FeederReader.com - Download on the Road

bobby9621

sorry I can't help you with this one, but I can atleast say welcome to the site!