Paul Laudeman

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One of the many reasons why RSS Bandit rocks!

One of my most favorite features of RSS Bandit is the ability to define 'Identities' that will highlight certain blog posts that mention your name (detected by a link to your blog) in them.

For example, I was mentioned in the Daily Grind for my news announcement about NHibernate 0.8 -- take a look at the blog post highlighted in blue:

If you're like me and subscribe to hundreds of feeds, this can be a really great way of quickly locating blog posts where you are mentioned.

All around, RSS Bandit is simply a *fantastic* rich client application that you can use to consume and organize your RSS/ATOM feeds. What is even better is that you can take a look at the source code (C#) that drives the interface and logic to see how they do all of their cool stuff.

To grab your copy of RSS Bandit, just head on over to the RSS Bandit website and download the latest release. You'll be hooked! :-)

Published May 09 2005, 07:56 AM by paul.laudeman

Comments

Sahil Malik said:

Hey dude, I'm not using their latest version. Do the feeds copy over in an upgrade?

# May 9, 2005 11:25 AM

paul.laudeman said:

Yes, the upgrade goes smoothly and I haven't ever run into any problems with it. Good luck!

# May 9, 2005 12:54 PM

Haacked (aka Phil Haack) said:

Funny how the small little details capture your attention, eh? I didn't write that feature, but it was broken and I fixed it, so I can lay some small claim to having that working. :)

# May 9, 2005 4:13 PM

paul.laudeman said:

Yes, very cool, and thanks! This newsreader is a must have and all of these little touches make all the difference. Now if I can just persuade some of my fellow CodeBetter bloggers to dump Bloglines and join in on the fun... :)

# May 9, 2005 4:20 PM

daveburke said:

Paul, I've known about RSS Bandit for quite some time now, but your post motivated me to make the move. Thanks!

# May 10, 2005 8:22 AM

paul.laudeman said:

You're welcome!

I'm really hooked on this newsreader for a number of reasons like the one I blogged about here, but also for some of the feed synchronization features it offers as well (for example, if you use RSS Bandit at work and at home, you can keep track of which feeds you've read so they're not marked as new when you launch the app on a different machine).

# May 10, 2005 10:55 AM

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