Hi David & all

Whilst I appreciate that David’s below message is providing interesting 
comparative information, just a quick reminder for others that we are 
specifically an iOS and OS X group.  So let’s not go down the Windows road too 
far on this.  David’s message is fine, as he’s just making observations based 
on his experiences.  But please let’s just leave the Windows stuff out of this 
discussion hence.

Thanks


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On 2 Apr 2014, at 19:06, David Griffith <[email protected]> wrote:

I post the message I sent earlier  on QFeed.
Unfortunately the headline is that it is a far better product I think on
Windows as it contains its own browser.

Some initial comments on QFeed.

The application on the Mac is not as slick as in Windows.

Importing your Feeds is straightforward enough, and then you have 2 tables
to first of all interact with to select the feed you want to view and then a
following table which will have the feed articles.
Beyond this is an html area which will contain the beginning of the feed
article.

On the Windows implementation     . there was an inbuilt  browser which
contained the text  to the whole article. On the Mac implementation you have
to press command B which will open the feed article in Safari if you want
to .we the whole text.

As all the feed articles I looked at were readable with Reader command
shift R this does not .. make for a terrible experience in actual reading
but I did find switching from Safari to QFeed frustratingly slow. This is a
problem that I have experienced  ever since I upgraded to Mavericks so this
might not be a QFeed issue and may  be resolved with a clean install. I
thought Clean my Mac had sorted most of the problems but clearly has  not in
this case.  If you find that you can switch smoothly from Safari to QFeed
then this may be a usable and useful application. As it stands though it
works much better on Windows where there is no need to use an  external
browser.
You might want to try in demo mode to see if it behaved acceptably  on your
system.

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