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Nick Bradbury and FeedDemon – The Interview

feedDemon I know that I have written a lot about FeedDemon but that’s what happens when you are a fan of product – you want to tell everyone just how much you like it. Such is the case with FeedDemon. I have been using the RSS client for a long time and it is probably one of the few programs you would have to take from my cold dead hands before I would give up on using.

In this day of Twitter, Facebook and all other kinds of fancy social media tools some consider RSS and RSS reader clients – especially desktop clients – to be either dead or dying. I tend to think just the opposite – I think RSS and the clients we use will have a long life.

With that in mind I decided to approach Nick Bradbury, the developer behind FeedDemon, and see if he would be willing to answer a few questions about RSS and FeedDemon. As you can see below he was more than willing to do so and for that I thank him very much.

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FeedDemon lets users opt out of ad version with newest release

feeddemon-licenseI think it is safe to say from the many times I have written about FeedDemon that it is one on my most favorite programs that is among the first to be installed on any fresh build of my machines. In fact when I first started using it goes back to the original beta release but because it was software you needed to pay for I could only use it for short periods of time.

Then early during the version 2 cycle I was lucky enough to have one of the members of the WinExtra Community Forums buy me a license because at that point FeedDemon didn’t support PayPal as a payment option. At some point during the very early builds of version 3 beta releases NewsGator and Nick Bradbury, FeedDemon’s developer, decided to go the free with ad support. While I was happier than hell he was taking this route because I wasn’t sure how I would be able to pay for an upgrade when the time came there were a lot of people whining and crying.

At the same time there were also a large number of people who reached out to Nick asking that there be an option to pay for FeedDemon in order to make the ads go away. In the beginning there was silence on the matter but then in the latest Pre-Release of 3.0 Nick announced the availability of paying to remove those sinful ads.

For me this was a welcome change for two reasons, the first being able to get rid of the ads. The second and in my opinion more importantly it was a way to say thanks to Nick for all his hard work. Ya I realize that he is probably sitting pretty after selling FeedDemon to NewsGator and is getting a nice paycheck to keep working on it but I still liked this option.

My only fear given NewsGator’s past e-commerce options that didn’t allow for payments using PayPal was that I wouldn’t be able to pay. So imagine my pleasant surprise when I found that they where using esellerate to handle payments which meant I could use PayPal – which I did immediately – and gladly.

Oh and as an extra bonus – you only need to buy one license which can be used with as many installed copies of FeedDemon you might have. As Nick said in a forum post on this

I’m a strong believer that once you pay for software, you should be able to use it on any computer you own.  So yes, you can use the serial number on different computers.

I should add, though, that there is a still-to-be-determined limit on the number of computers a single serial number can be used on.  But I’ll be generous with that limit – my goal is to cut back on serial numbers swapped on warez sites, etc., and not to make life difficult for legitimate customers.

Thanks Nick from a very happy customer. Keep up the good work and I’ll keep evangelize FeedDemon from here to the end of the Internet. :)

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Has Louis Gray jumped the shark AND drunk all the kool-aid?

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kool_aid Don’t get me wrong. I have the utmost respect for Louis and even though I have never met him face to face, and mostly never will, I like to think of him as a friend.

That said.

Louis are you off your frikken meds man? Stand-alone feed readers collapsing? C’mon give me a break here bud.

Just because you’ve swallowed the Google kool-aid full tilt doesn’t mean that stand-alone feed readers are passé or that they are – or ever will for a very long time – go away.

In his post Louis points to the fact that NewsGator shut down it’s own web-based feed reader and synchronization service in favor of using Google’s GReader sync services. Far from being a sign that NewsGator’s RSS offering like FeedDemon are going to disappear it more of a sign of a very smart business move on NewsGator’s behalf.

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FeedDemon to release a pay version?

With all the news surround NewsGator’s announce about dropping a bunch of their RSS related services I came across an interesting little bit of information on the NewsGator Daily Blog. Hidden away in the announcement by J.B. Holston, CEO and President of NewsGator, was this little gem

Why ads in the consumer applications?  We are heading toward two versions – those with ads and forthcoming for-pay versions without ads.  We feel that the quality of the apps is such that these are fair deals.  We hope you’ll agree.

If this is indeed the case and they will be releasing a pay version of FeedDemon I will give them a high five because FeedDemon is one of my favorite programs and I wouldn’t want to work as a blogger without it – and I want to pay for it. I only hope that they realize that not everyone has credit cards and will make sure that other payment methods are supported.

Yes I could keep using the free version that is ad supported, and really the ads feedDemondon’t bother me, but the way I look at it is that I use this program every single day of the week – non-stop pretty well – and it is worth paying for. It is also in my opinion a way to say thank you to Nick for his constant improving of a great program and as an encouragement to keep doing that.

I also think that it’s interesting that not even a year after going to an ad supported format for FeedDemon that NewsGator is return to a hybrid approach that includes a pay version.

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FeedDemon and how memory isn’t an all you can eat buffet

feedDemon In this day and age of monstrous programs and applications; web or otherwise, that think that memory usage is something to be ignored it is nice to see a piece of software that treats memory like a delicacy. Such is the case with the last few beta releases of FeedDemon which acts like it’s gone on a memory diet.

From browsers to AIR, and .NET, applications that suck back the memory of your machine like it is a never ending Slushie we are use to seeing programs memory usage grow beyond 100,000K and keep going. Now to be fair FeedDemon from the version 2 tree and the first few of the 3.0 beta suffered from this buffet attitude.

However in the last few releases of the best Windows RSS feed reader around Nick Bradbury has been working some pretty heavy memory mojo. As a result in the constant running of FeedDemon for days on end I have yet to see the application even come close to crossing over into the 100,000K territory. In fact I have very rarely seen it exceed the 70,000 to 80,000K level.

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It’s too bad that more developers couldn’t show the same amount of concern for our machines and the frustration users get from watching their memory get sucked into application’s black hole.

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FeedDemon does Google Reader – Rock On!

feedDemon I have been a FeedDemon fan for almost as long as Nick Bradbury has been coding it. For me it is one of the best RSS readers out there bar none. Today though it got even better.

FeedDemon now supports Google Reader synchronization and Google Reader Shared Items.

Let that sink in for a minute.

FeedDemon, one of the best Windows RSS clients, now supports and uses the best web-based RSS client to let you synchronize your RSS feeds. While it’s native support for the Newsgator service for synchronization was very good the ability to use Google Reader is something that many bloggers have been wishing for some time.

All I can say is – Nick, you rock.

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FeedDemon continues to add value – Shared Link Notes

The one thing that I have always liked about Nick Bradbury; the author of FeedDemon, is that he is always willing to take FeedDemon on a road forward. Recently he had announced that he was experimenting with syncing FeedDemon to Google GReader Shared Feeds and he was asking users of FeedDemon what kind of ways they would like to see the feature being used

Amit Agarwal has the scoop: I’ve been experimenting with making FeedDemon sync with Google Reader.  It’s something we get a lot of requests for, so we decided to see what it would entail to add Google Reader synching to both FeedDemon and NetNewsWire.

I should make it clear that it’s not 100% definite that this feature will see the light of day – it’s still in the experimental stage.  I sort of have an unwritten policy of not promising a feature until I’ve already coded it, and there’s a lot of coding left to do here :)

But assuming that Google Reading synching is added, I’m curious to know what specifically you would like to see.  Beyond the basics of synching (i.e.: ensuring that changes you make in Google Reader are reflected in FeedDemon, and vice versa), what could I do to make the integration more useful?

This of course is on top of the already built in share feature in FeedDemon. However as good as the built in version is there was always one thing that I wished that it had. With GReader shares you have the ability to add a short note and it is this idea that I felt was missing from FeedDemon.

Well it looks like I might be able to strike that one off of my FeedDemon wish list that is if the latest shared posts on Nick’s Shared Links feed is any indication. As you can see below he has shared a post and low and behold it has a shared note attached to it – very cool Nick

FeedDemon Shared Note

I am so looking forward to the next version of this excellent feed reader.

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Na, I don’t read a lot

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Once in awhile – if I end up in the subscription display of my feeds in FeedDemon I find myself prompted to cleanup my feeds. Today was such a day and this is what I got after it was finished

feeddemon cleanup Hmm .. 5,510 dead items after 32 days. Not bad I guess considering this was a slow month for news :)

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