In the left column is my grade for that aggregator. Then there are the individual aggregator columns. In the next column is how important that particular criterion is to me personally. In the first column is each of the criteria. We had a bullet-proof system (or something) for selecting the best aggregator.īelow is a graph with the results of my evaluations of each of the aggregators.
Having done that, I listed all of the aggregators that were to be tested. Next, a weight was given to the importance (to me) of each criterion. The first task was to come up with some criteria that were important to me personally. Unable to make up my mind, it was time for the old comparison spreadsheet trick. RSSOwl had redeemed itself and had made quite a positive impression. To be honest, the stability had improved quite dramatically. It seemed like it would be a good idea to see how far it had come in the last couple of years. RSSOwl found its way onto my machine again, tonight. Overall, I think it has the most of the features that I personally am looking for. It is also quite unstable on a 64-bit machine, and crashed 4 times just tonight. It is quite a bit more responsive than Thunderbird, but not quite as much so as Akregator. It has some excessively cool filtration, searching, and the ability to save searches as virtual folders. Thunderbird is agonizingly slow as an aggregator, and has some funky bugs that really shouldn’t be there.
#RSSOWL UNABLE TO CONNEC FULL#
Sometimes, I have to click around on different folders and come back to even show any at all, when I know darn well it’s full of them. And 2) When I have “Unread” selected in the filter bar at the top, and I go into a given folder containing feeds, it doesn’t only show the Unread news articles. As we already know, waiting gives me cancer. Two huge beefs I have with Thunderbird: 1) It is slower than mold growing uphill in Winter. Mostly, I appreciate it and use it because of its rule-based filters and its stability. Thunderbird allows for import and export of the feeds in an OPML file (which most aggregators do now). Ever since ths fact was discovered, my RSS feeds have been aggregated by nothing else. I then learned that Thunderbird could aggregate RSS feeds, and would let me filter them into different folders, too. It definitely misses some of the essentials, such as filters and saved searches. Overall, Akregator does seem quite a bit snappier and more responsive. It also does not allow direct filtration. What it does offer is the ability to search through the feeds, but does not allow one to save the searches for availability later.
It fared much better than RSSOwl, but couldn’t filter things very well. There were a couple of bugs, which I reported, but overall, it was very usable. It had lots of great features but it seemed like it crashed a lot.Īkregator was the next RSS reader installed for trial. The first aggregator on my machine was RSSOwl. RSS feeds initially hit my scene around July of 2004. It may then give you ways to manage the articles, search through them, or whatever else. This program then downloads and parses all of the RSS feeds to which you are subscribed. You simply copy the URL of the RSS feed and paste it into an aggregator. It is great for news, blogs, forum threads, or anything else that may be time-sensitive. It’s like a channel to which people can subscribe to receive the latest content on a given website. Really briefly, RSS means “Really Simple Syndication”. This, to me, is the single greatest means of transmitting useful information that there is besides email. No idea how many were spilled on the carpet. Presents and family, and honey-roasted ham… we spilled no fewer than 3 drinks on the dining-room floor that I personally mopped this very morning. OK, so Christmas was great and everything.
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