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I may have finally found a decent RSS Reader. I’ve seen it advertised many times, but had not downloaded it to check it out. After testing dozens of different ones, I’m now giving RSS Bandit a go (yes, arse bandit). Seems to be better than others I’ve had. The last one I tried was Great News, but it kept annoying me. Every time it started up, it’d bring up a window with "Great News was not shut down properly last time, so it’s refreshing the feeds" or something and wait for me to click OK. The problem with this is GN was loaded on Windows startup, so every time I boot up it would come up with this. Next, it’d say it was refreshing channels or something and I’d have to click OK again. If a new version was released, I’d have to click YES or NO to download it or not. Too many popup boxes!

I did find a really nicely designed one called eRSS Reader, but they have a big banner at the top of the reader page.. about 100 pixels in height or so which could not be shrunk nor removed.. just to put their big logo up there. It also would not mark feeds or articles as READ when you clicked on them and there was no "Mark feed as read" option, so you could not tell when you had read all of an article or if it just downloaded another bunch of articles to read. It had a really pretty theme tho. I suppose that’s something

Others I’ve tried which I can remember, but didn’t like: Sharpreader, Abilon, Newsdesk, RssReader, Taskable, Feedreader, Amphetadesk, Awasu.. many more which I cannot think of. None lived up to what I was looking for. Wish me luck with this new one.

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