Monday, May 24, 2004
Sauce Reader Trial

Over the weekend I saw a couple people posting about Sauce Reader, so I figured I'd give it a shot.  I liked the idea of being able to post from within the tool, and it looked like a very polished tool.

I downloaded it, and moved my OPML.  My first impression was pretty bad when it took about 15 to 20 minutes to process my opml.  I let that go, and continued to try it out. 

All in all it was a very functional reader, but left quite a bit to be desired.  I missed my tabs from rssbandit, as well as the thread view in the aggregator.  I couldn't get posting to my blog to work, and the worst part, my thinkpad scroll button didnt work in any of the panels.  It also had the tendency to leave dialog boxes behind the app requiring an end task.  The memory footprint was also larger then rssbandit.

I did really like the manual sorting of feeds, as well as the diff icons for feeds and folders. 

I switched back to rssbandit and visualblogger for now, although I will keep a dog ear for that app in a few versions.  My opinion now, still needs some refinement, but has promise.



1/23/2005 3:53:33 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Thanks for taking the time to try Sauce Reader and post your feedback. Please drop by our support forum if you have any other ideas or suggestions:
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<br> <a target="_new" href="http://www.synop.com/Support/">http://www.synop.com/Support/</a>
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<br>Also, it would be great if we could get a copy of your OPML file (send to nathan@synop.com) for testing since 20mins is definitely unreasonable.
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<br>Thanks, Nathan
1/23/2005 3:53:33 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
Absolutley. I will send it now. I think the 20 minutes was importing the opml, and getting all the feeds, but it pretty much pegged my thinkpad for 15-20 minutes.
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<br>The app does look really good, and with some polish I think I would def be a convert.


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