So, I woke up Friday morning with a celebrated the 42nd birthday a bit too much hangover. Fortunately, I scheduled my birthday this year the day before Good Friday and we are closed on Good Friday. This left me with a day to get one of those technology projects I have rolling around in my head done.
For almost three years I have worked with Michael Woods who has tried to get me to use an RSS newsreader. On top of that Adam recently made a post about RSS over at PrintMode.net. The pressure was on, and I had decided that when I had the time I would figure this RSS stuff out.
I sent Adam an IM. He said download FeedDemon 2.0, and I did. About 40 minutes later I was reading news via RSS. So, if you are holding off because you thought it might be complicated, just do it. Now, the way I have chosen to go it will not be free, FeedDemon is only on a 30-day trial then I will have to pay a whole $29 to use it.
It will, however, save me countless hours over the course of a year checking out blogs and web-sites for updated information. The power of RSS is that the updated information comes to you, and you can read most of what you need right in the reader (on-line or off).
Tip: If you do choose FeedDemon make sure to turn OFF the synchronization feature. By turning this feature off you will not need the NewsGator web-site to be functioning in order to read news in FeedDemon. Over half my set-up time was wasted because the synchronization server was down, so I could not get feed updates.
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