FeedDemon 2.5- Making the Best Even Better

As you might have seen over the past few days, the latest incarnation of FeedDemon, version 2.5 has been released. Nick Bradbury's FeedDemon 2.1, which came out a little over a year-ago, is the reigning king of RSS aggregators for Windows, according to numerous experts such as CNET and PC Magazine. FeedDemon 2.5 is even better than it's predecessor and the early reviews have been overwhelmingly positive.

Despite the "point release" moniker, FeedDemon 2.5 is chock full of new capabilities. Check the release notes for more details, but some highlights include:

• Synchronized News Bins with shared RSS feeds - This can be done by giving someone the URL of the news bin or synchronizing it with the Clippings function in NewsGator Online or NewsGator Enterprise Server (I use FeedDemon as my primary reader and this is incredibly useful function because I know clip articles to a News Bin, sync that with a clippings folder in NGES and then subscribe the exec staff or the sales reps to that folder. We have some customers looking to created newsletters through the FeedDemon News Bins in this same manner)
• Enhanced offline support - including the ability to prefetch links and images in all unread items for offline reading (Do this right before heading out to catch a train or head to the airport and have everything waiting for you when you turn your computer back on)
• New "Popular Topics” capabilities - In addition to seeing the most popular topics in all the feeds you’re subscribed to, with one-click, you can see the most popular articles from the larger NewsGator subscriber population
• Embedded video support - Video objects embedded in feed items can now be securely viewed inside FeedDemon (If a new post comes along with an embedded video from YouTube, you can watch it right from the "Newspaper View")
• Desktop Alerts- Configure these to notify you of updates for the feeds you deem to be the most important (If you're using FeedDemon for brand monitoring or competitive intelligence, this will be very helpful)

FeedDemon already was already lightning fast, but Nick managed to turbo-charge it and make it even quicker, which is never a bad thing.

If you're already a FeedDemon user, run don't walk to go get this new release. If you aren't a FeedDemon user, try it out free for 30 days. You'll definitely be hooked.

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