Friday, August 20, 2004

Using NewsGator to public the Blogs through email client--Microsoft Outlook

This is great news for me, a newbie to RSS technology. Through searching the web, though there are many RSS readers available nowadays, after testing I found that two readers fitting me well, one is free RSS Reader, the other is NewsGator, which is not free of charge, but you can find the cracker on the web to crack it to make it work normally. I prefer the first one because it is not only simple but also flexible. Many websites introducing the basic knowledge of RSS advise the users the most common and popular RSS reader, SharpReader. But I think the users should not limit their eyes only on this kind of introduction, but look for more and appropriate readers fit yourself well.

Every reader has its own advantages. RSS Reader can import and export the XML format for your feeds, and also provides you a directory storing the business, news, technology, science, health, and many other kinds of feeds. NewsGator is run embedded in the Microsoft Outlook. It provides many plug-ins which will extend the functions of this tool. You can obtain and download them directly from the website of NewsGator. I use one of them, Blogger plug-in, which will make the users of Blogger.com write, edit and publish their blogs in the Microsoft Outlook offline or online. It is very convenient! I selected NewsGator actually just because of this advantage of NewsGator. Though NewsGator also provide the function of import and export, the format is very particular, not common like that of RSS Reader. I think that this will be the obstacle of the NewsGator’s development in the future unless this format will become the standard of this field used by most of the RSS reader.

In summary, I think that the primary principle of selection of RSS readers is you-feel-comfortable-about-its-functions-and-interface. It is really difficult to say which RSS reader is the best. But we can find easily by the investigations which reader is the most popular! This site will provide you the popular RSS readers.

This blog is edited and published using NewsGator in the Microsoft Outlook.

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