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Originally posted by Alex, on Tuesday May 20, @08:56AM

Don pointed me to AmphetaDesk a while back and it
was my first introduction to RSS (Remote Site Summary) aggregators. Many weblogs
and news sites are publishing RSS feeds of various flavors, including this site. I recently started using
AmphetaDesk again, and was disappointed with its update capabilities. Once a
particular site's feed was read, the program would not update the site properly
when it looked at the feed again later and the feed had changed. It seemed to
work on some sites, but not on others. AmphetaDesk doesn't appear to be
maintained right now - it's been at the same pre-1.0 version for quite a
while.When I was setting up the RSS 2.0 feed for my site, I started
looking at different aggregators. I've finally found one I really like, and it
works great. It's called SharpReader. It runs on the .NET framework, so it
requires Windows 2000/XP and the framework installed. Once unzipped and run, it
provides a three-pane interface similar to an email reader that has the
subscribed feeds on the left, the items for the selected feed(s) on the top
right, and the contents of the currently selected item on the bottom right. I've
been using it for about a week and it's already saved me a lot of browsing time
for about 12 websites I frequent. It's currently under development by Luke Hutteman, and he's releasing
pretty regular updates.Thanks for the great tool, Luke.