RSS Bandit
I have been hearing about RSS Bandit for some time now. It is the sort of thing you read about it as one swims across the hundreds of RSS posts everyday. And no wonder it has undergone around ten releases.
RSS Bandit is an desktop based RSS Reader written within the .Net Framework.
What does RSS Bandit do?
- It lets the user view news items in newspaper view
- It synchronizes and updates read/unread status across multiple computers
- It deletes expired items after a certain amount of days
- It can Control how often items are downloaded
- It has support for password protected feeds
- It reduces bandwidth consumption by using HTTP conditional GETs and GZIP encoding
- It has search folders
- It allows viewing and posting of comments in the reader
- It has integrated Web search
- It has tabbed browsing
- It has security settings for disabling unsafe browser features like ActiveX.
Looks impressive for a Desktop RSS Reader. What I liked about it is that one can view and write comments from the reader. The feature that deletes posts after a few days might be a double edge sword that can go eitheir way. One thing seem certain it gives one more control over the the information flow. A pity its only available for Windows.
I love its icon as well.
