BestFreeApps

I’ve often considered the RSS Readers supplied by NewsGator to be amongst the best, but I’ve not mentioned them here before, as they had a price to them. Now, however, you can get them for free.

NewsGator yesterday announced that all of their RSS Readers, including FeedDemon (the Windows variant) and NetNewsWire (the Mac variant) will be available free of charge. Both of these now move to the top of my “Best RSS Reader” list.

Although I’ve been a long-time Google Reader user, I do prefer the desktop variants. They tend to be faster and update their feeds more quickly and generally be more feature rich.

One of the terrific features of the NewsGator offerings is the Synchronisation between the client and the server. Whether I’m using a Windows machine, Mac or the browser based variant, I have access to all the feeds I have subscribed to.

I thoroughly recommend any of their tools - especially now they’re free

Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download from the Mozilla Developer Center.

I’ve been playing with it for a few hours and can make the following observations:

1. It’s fast
2. Virtually none of the extensions have yet been ported (understandably), but 2 of my favourites - Roboform and Stumbleupon - work fine. This may explain 1. above
3. It’s leaving a smaller footprint than Firefox 2. FF3’s been running for about 4 hours and is running at about 100Mb. FF2 after that time would’ve been at least 250Mb. So, it looks like they’re starting to address the memory leaks. Of course, the lack of extensions also means a lack of memory leaks from them, which helps.

Visually, it’s pretty much identical to Firefox 2.

Well worth a look as a first Beta and it’ll been interesting to see how it develops.

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