After playing w/ a couple of RSS readers I've come to love FeedDemon. This bad boy is developed by Bradsoft, the same company that originally created Homesite.
FeedDemon's fast, easy to use, and includes tabbed browsing. It'll
eventually be an app that you can purchase, but it's currently
available free as a pre-release.
The other readers I've played with include the built in reader in Radio
Userland, Feedreader, and AmphetaDesk. Didn't like Radio and Ampheta.
Both use your browser to hit against a mini web server app. Feedreader
was alright, but craped out alot. Bradsoft also created TopStyle, which is a CSS editor. I use TopStyle
Lite that comes bundled w/ Homesite + or I should say Dreamweaver.
Haven't really played with TopStyle too much until this past week.
Using CSS-P to layout an Intranet app. NO TABLES. Positioning w/ DIV's
is a pain, but NO PAIN NO GAIN. ;) Homesite is under Macromedia's
control now and is packaged together w/ Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Dreamweaver seems like Word. Too many features. Slow to start. Feels
like it's eating away at my RAM and polluting my hard drive when it
starts. I just need a fast text editor that colors my code and helps me
reduce typing. I hope Macromedia doesn't kill Homesite. Or hopefully it
axes it and the tool gets back into BradSoft's hands.
Another coding tool I recently tried is UltraEdit. Used it for an .asp based project, but haven't touched it
since. It seemed very felxible and was a solid app. I missed my code completion ...
It's all Homesite +, TopStyle Lite, and FeedDemon now. All
Bradbury originated tools. My tool god! ALL HAIL BradSoft!!
What's in your tool kit?
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