Reading RSS feeds in MS Outlook

Although I'm a diehard fan of FeedDemon ($30 USD), I'm trying to find a solid RSS reader for MS Outlook 2003. In my FeedDemon I have about 120 feeds in about 10 different categories, but there are times when you just want to follow a small handful of your favorite feeds (or even create a feed of recent comments on your own blogs). I've found a few good Outlook plug-ins for reading news feeds, but was wondering if anybody else out there reads news feeds in Outlook or if they use other tools (such as free online readers or other apps).

So far I've tried a few different Outlook plug-ins, from RSS Popper (free) to NewsGator Outlook Edition ($30 US).

Although I found RSS Popper to work in most cases, so far I'm leaning towards NewsGator instead as it seems a bit more stable and polished.

Posted by peter on February 08, 2005 at 04:58 PM
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You can always use mozilla's thunderbird. It's free and fast

Posted by: rt at February 8, 2005 08:22 PM

Yeah, I tried Thunderbird for a few days and ended up going back to Outlook 2003 as my email client. But maybe I gave up on Thunderbird too early.

I have a couple of really good plugins for Outlook that handle 99% of my spam filtering and I have another plugin that does lightning fast searches in Outlook (which also now does speedy searches of my RSS feeds thanks to NewsGator).

Posted by: peter at February 8, 2005 08:44 PM

I use NewsGator and I've been pretty happy with it. Although I must admit that I fall back on the browser most of the time (markme.com/mxna). The thing I don't like about NewsGator is that feeds show up as regular, dull, boring, emails. No pretty colors or anything wrapped around them. :)

MD

Posted by: Mike Downey at February 8, 2005 10:49 PM

I'm using NewsGator in Outlook currently but have to say that it's slow like a snail race and Outlook often crash since I've installed it.
I was using FeedDemon before too and while it was nice it would be more welcome to have an all-in-one-app.
I'm using Avant Browser (http://www.avantbrowser.com/) too which could be called the swiss-army-knife-addon for Internet Explorer and it has a newsfeed-reader as well and treats feeds similar to website bookmarks. Eventually I will go back to that!

Posted by: sascha at February 8, 2005 11:01 PM

I tried FeedDemon, Abilon, and some other commercial-freware apps. Also tried some outlook add-ons or plugins, but usually they messed up my folders and configuration. Finally i moved to bloglines, the online aggregator. This way i keep read/unread messages consitency both at work and at home, so when I move from one place to another I don't need to re-delete all previously read items. Also, they provide a small pop-up notifier that you can have in your task bar and get notified at specified intervals. By now I stick with this.

Posted by: Daniel Aguilar at February 9, 2005 03:27 AM