FeedDemon 3.0 Pre-Release (3.0.0.28)

FeedDemon 3.0 Pre-Release (3.0.0.28) can be seen as one of the most helpful and  popular Windows RSS reader. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information.

You can completely customize the way feeds are organized and displayed and set up custom news watches based on keywords. You can even download podcasts and audio files and have them show up on your portable audio device. In addition, FeedDemon now synchronizes with NewsGator Online and the rest of the NewsGator RSS Suite.

The software is pre-configured with dozens of feeds, so you can unleash the power of RSS right away. This is a beta release. Users may encounter instability and other bugs. Use with caution.

Major Features:

1. Google Reader synchronization: Use FeedDemon at home, at your office, or anywhere you go and keep your feeds, tags and shared items synched between locations.
2. Sharing: FeedDemon’s simple single-click sharing lets your friends subscribe to a feed of your favorite articles.
3. Tagging: Assign your own keywords to items, making it easy to classify and locate articles you've previously read.
4. Watches: Tell FeedDemon to let you know when your keywords appear in any feed you’re subscribed to.
5. Search Feed: Get alerted when your keywords appear in any feed, regardless of whether you’re subscribed to it.
6. Podcasts: Let FeedDemon automatically download audio files and copy them to your iPod or other media device.

Enhancements:

• Pre-Release re-writes how synced feeds are retrieved, which may slow down the first feed update,
• Adds a Quick Tag menu for fast tagging
• Introduces a Space Bar hot key for moving to the next post
• Improves the Google Reader conversion process including a progress meter and syncing pre-existing flagged items, resyncing no longer marks unread posts as read
• Removes automatic prefetch as a feature, and other stability and bug-fixes.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows ® XP or later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 ® or later