I am sure it has happened to anyone who maintains a large RSS feed list - leave the reading for a couple of days and suddenly you are faced with a mountain of posts to catch up on. This is a common scenario that usually leads to a a lot of Mark All As Read menu item clicking to get the information beast back under control.
Well I guess Nick Bradbury; the author of FeedDemon, must have faced this a few too many times because in the next pre-release of FeedDemon 2.6 he as added a Panic Button for us to use. the idea being that you set the parameters for the option to watch for and when you startup FeedDemon it checks and pops up a Panic Button dialog that will mark in one fell swoop all those feeds that threatened to overload you information sensors.
It may not seem like a lot but I am sure that a feature like will save more than a few coffee stressed persons on a Monday morning after a long weekend.
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Conversation Tags: RSS clients, software, FeedDemon
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Panic button indeed. I use Google Reader - there’s no panic button, it stops counting at 1,000 new items.
I had 7-10 days recently where I was just too under the weather to do much of anything, including reading the 300 subscriptions I have. When I realized how much was left for me when I came back, I felt pretty overwhelmed.
Instead of deleting it all, I chose to chip away at it over 2-3 days. I finally caught up yesterday.
sorry to hear you were under the weather for that long. hope you are back up to full steam.
this might not be one of the killer type features but it is definitely a nice addition to a long list of excellent features in FeedDemon.
In your opinion, is FeedDemon more useful than Google Reader?
Matthew,
In strictly my own personal opinion FeedDemon is a far superior product. Nick Bradbury has done; and continues to do, an excellent job on the program.
As I blogger I would be lost without it - I can’t put it any simpler than that. This might be different for the casual reader but for me Google Reader never made the grade.
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