Ryan, disabling the synchronization made a progress . Still, I am looking now at a feed. An article wrote hours ago is in GreatNews but not in FeedDemon. And F5 has no effect. Anyway, on other feeds the speed is much better. I will keep few days more GN and FD running.

I remember having the same issue, and I believe I set the synchronization interval to 5 minutes, then disabled it, and then set the overall update interval to 5 minutes (by right-clicking on the main Subscriptions folder). That gets me near-instant feed updates.

After few days of using FeedDemon and GreatNews together I can say that I will continue to use GreatNews (freeware). At some feeds, I get new items in second with GreatNews, in hours with FeedDemon. The notification windows just say the feed, not the item title. It looks a little better than GreatNews, but lose at other points. I wait GreatNews (in the following release) to implement “remember open tabs” as in FeedDemon. Than GreatNews will totally defeat FeedDemon.

Here’s the thing about the update frequency. If you have your feeds synchronized with Newsgator the fastest your feeds will refresh will be every 30 minutes. If you disable synchronization, which I’ve done, you can do it as fast as 5 minute intervals.

At home I have a Vista machine that I would use Feed Demon for. My wife is getting a MacBook Pro (waiting for MacWorld first…) that we could use NetNewsWire on. And at work, I use Outlook all day, so I could use NewsGator Inbox. It would be nice to test how they all work together.

Looks like you’ll be putting it to the ultimate test. I would love to hear how it all works out.

Thanks for the tip Ryan!

Ryan J. wrote:

I have a question along those lines. What are the benefits to a desktop reader verses online ones (specifically google reader)?

A desktop reader is often used for a variety of reasons. We use FeedDemon because we have control over how fast our content is updated, can set desktop alerts on a per feed basis, and the extensive keyboard shortcut customization.

For example, when we get going in the morning and check our feeds the first thing we do is refresh them. It takes about 30 seconds for FeedDemon to go out and get all of the new content from about 250 feeds that we are currently subscribed to. That way we have the latest information, whereas the news in Google Reader can be updated as little as each hour.

Thanks for the info! I was looking into all of news gators products and I think I’ll have to try it. I like the idea that all their products sync together so you don’t read the same news over and over again. At home I have a Vista machine that I would use Feed Demon for. My wife is getting a MacBook Pro (waiting for MacWorld first…) that we could use NetNewsWire on. And at work, I use Outlook all day, so I could use NewsGator Inbox. It would be nice to test how they all work together.