FeedDemon is a well-crafted standalone newsreader that’s ideal for novices who’ve never heard of an RSS feed. The $29 FeedDemon features an outstanding setup wizard that explains basic newsreader concepts (“A channel is a source of news items. For example, the RSS feed for the New York Times is a channel.”) For some, this advice may be a bit basic. Nonetheless, we have to give kudos to the vendor, Bradbury Software, for explaining a relatively new software genre to the uninitiated masses.
Like its competitors, FeedDemon installs in less than a minute. In our tests, download and installation took a few minutes and proceeded without a hitch. We particularly liked FeedDemon’s setup wizard, which allows you to subscribe to an unlimited number of popular RSS feeds by simply checking a box besides each feed’s name. Of course, there are thousands of other feeds on the Net, so FeedDemon provides links to several other RSS directories.
FeedDemon’s interface is very good; however, its default setting, which places the headline and browser panes side by side, is somewhat clumsy. Reading a news story in the undersize browser requires incessant scrolling. Fortunately, you can relocate the browser to the bottom via the View pull-down menu, giving you a wider browser.
Source: CNet
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