Cool features in FeedDemon 1.6

Release candidate 1 of the next version 1.6 of the FeedDemon RSS aggregator for Windows is now available for testing by registered users, and it’s very good indeed.

I’ve been using the betas of this upcoming version for the past couple of months. With RC1, some of the cool new features that will be in the release version are now included – over two dozen new features, in fact. My favourites:

• "Automatic unsubscribe" added to Advanced page in feed properties – enables automatically unsubscribing from feeds that haven’t updated within a certain number of days (useful for comment feeds and other short-term subscriptions)
• FeedDemon now remembers the login for secure feeds between sessions, so you’re no longer prompted every time you update a secure feed
• At startup, FeedDemon now checks for feeds in synched folders that were removed from NewsGator Online, and asks whether to delete or disable them in FeedDemon
• "Reports" added which provide information on "Most Visited" feeds, "Least Visited" feeds and "Dinosaurs" – the feeds that haven’t had new posts in the longest time
• "Post to del.icio.us" added to news item context menu
• The "Statistics" page in the feed properties dialog now enables showing FeedBurner statistics for FeedBurner feeds

Full details in the RC1 release notes.

The new features, along with many enhancements and fixes, all contribute to making FD the prince of RSS aggregators for the Windows platform.