Stu Downes

Within 3 hours of posting about RSS Readers Nick Bradbury had commented and straightened me out on some FeedDemon configuration information and highlighted some features coming soon for synchronising flags between FeedDemon and NewsGator.  Nick is the Architect of these products and founded Bradbury, the company which wrote them before he and  Bradbury became part of Newsgator.  This is excellent customer service (and likely due to my addition of Technorati tagging into WordPress using this plugin).  The power of blogs and tagging!

Thanks Nick!

 

Well over the last year or so I’ve used numerous RSS readers.  I work with an RSS reader on my home PC.  On my corporate machine I rely on a browser based interface to read my subscriptions. 

I originally started using the RSS Popper plugin for Outlook, which I thought was good and included functionality to subscribe to feeds by right clicking from within the browser.  I complimeted this with an online account at Bloglines which was super for keeping up to date on other machines.  RSS Popper synched automatically with any new feeds from Bloglines but the read and unread marks from within the feeds didn’t – and this was a pain for the way I work.  I must bias my view against the fact that they are both free.

More recently I’ve used the Outlook 2007 RSS reader.  I didn’t like it as it wasn’t rich enough for me.  I have settled on Newsgator online and FeedDemon offline.  They both work in harmony and synchronise unread marks.  I like them both but would like to add some requests (on top of Steve’s recent wish list):

• Why can I select podcasts in Newsgator which will be picked up by FeedStation and pushed to my iPod BUT not from FeedDemon?  Can feedstation not be integrated into FeedDemon?
• Why does the blogroll from Newsgator not include the folder structure?  If you look on my links page you’ll see that Bloglines at the top does, but Newsgator at the bottom doesn’t.
• Could items be flagged online for follow-up and this flag synchronised to FeedDemon?

 

 

CTC2006 is a couple of weeks away and I’ll be attending.  Anyone from this blog’s readership going?

 

Some of you will be running Lotus Notes 7 clients but will use a release 6 mail template design.  You’ll run instant messaging in Notes and save chat transcripts.  You’ll see them in the all documents view but would like them in a view of their own.  You don’t need to wait for your environment to update the mail template to an R7 design.  Just do the following from your in-box:

Select Create – View from the menu
Change View Name = Chats
Ensure View Type = Shared
Click “Copy From” then selcect “All Documents”
Click “Formula Window”
Append the following & $IMChatTranscript = “1″
OK all dialog boxes

Hey presto there is not a view called chats for your reference.

Don’t worry when the R7 template comes along your users don’t have to do this as it is already done (much better than here!)