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This post was inspired by the current (it’s dying down) kerfuffle generated over FeedDemon’s latest Release Candidate containing adverts. Now, I haven’t installed it or tried it out yet. However, I left a comment on Nick Bradbury’s blog about the issue that I’ll repost here:...

Well, well, Whaddaya know! FeedDemon 2.8 Release Candidate 1 is out and it now contains ads. Wow. I feel like I've dodged a bullet with switching to RSS Bandit. Seriously, none of the applications on my laptop contains ads simply because: (a) they're free or (b) I paid for them. FeedDemon used to be shareware i.e. free for 30 days and about $30 to register. I paid for FeedDemon back then and was ecstatic when they made it a free program because it freed me from having to pay for upgrades. Now, the author of FeedDemon, Nick Bradbury, feels the need to insert ads into this product because they need a source of revenue. That's his prerogative. I'll install FeedDemon on my Windows XP Pro SP3 virtual machine and see what the hubbub is about. In any case, I don't think I'm going back to FeedDemon till I read about serious improvements in the stability & handling all sorts of feeds. So far, beyond some minor User Interface gripes, I'm liking my switch to RSS Bandit. Whenever I click "mark all feeds read", it happens without locking up and forcing me to use Windows Task Manager to kill the process unlike *cough* FeedDemon *cough* :D On a serious note, it's not all roses with RSS Bandit though. Here's one of  my pet peeves in the picture on the right. Read More »

When FeedDemon was a paid application, I was a very happy customer. My feed subscriptions have been in the  hundreds for a while now and lately, FeedDemon's been getting the hiccups i.e. a polite way ofsaying it crashes within 10 minutes of usage. I am not kidding. Ever since the app became free, it's like the developers have let it go to hell in a hand basket. It would help matters tremendously if it told me that some feed was trying to poison my computer or FeedDemon or do some sort of diagnostics because I'm getting sick of it. I ...