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Sunday, June 20, 2004

TOOLS: Sauce Reader 

I already published two articles about Sauce Reader on Mai 24 and Mai 14. Synop released on last Friday a new version:

Sauce Reader v1.5 (beta)

I'm using intensively Sauce Reader since more than a month and I would like to summarize my impression:

What's Cool
  • Great user interface

  • Very good usability

  • Since this version: performance, stability and a quite good memory foot-print

  • Free for personal use, reasonnable price for commercial use ($25US per license)

  • Customization of keyboard shortcuts

  • Great desktop alert

  • Support of proxy, great feature to stay tuned at work

  • Last but not least, very active development team, professional alpha- and beta-phase


  • Room for improvement
  • I'm still not totally convinced by the "posting" module because of the way the HMTL decoration is integrated in (specially the "P" and "BR" tags). I still prefer to use the very simple Blogger web interface...


  • Conclusion
    All in all, I think that Sauce Reader is the best aggregator at this moment. The last developments of this tool (three releases now) give me a very convincing impression of the Synop's capability and user orientation.

    PS: Laurent also posted some comments about this new release.