I came across the new version of NewsGator yesterday, including support for posting…

some facts keep me from using it – and preferring Sharpreader for reading with pluged-in w.bloggar for posting:

• Performance: the aggregated frontpagewith 115 feeds I read takes aprox. 1,5 min. on my Athlon 2200 to build – with 100% CPU utilization
• Usability: an outlook problem for a decade – the folder-“new“counts are not aggregated (i.e. a folder with 3 sub-folders having 1 new entry each does not display that there are 3 new overall inside – don’t blame NewsGator – it’s Outlook
• Usability: no time-based filtering – actually no directory-based filtering at all – I cannot find relevant posts when I have to klick through all 115 feeds (see picture with example “Microsoft in last 12 hours”)
• Usability: no possibility to read a whole group of feeds together, i.e. clicking on the directory like “Java” to get all feeds below sorted in the way I want it (time, alphatext, etc.)
• Publishing: no HTML-editing, no FTP-upload of pics, not even possibility to enter an URL with a specific text different to the URL-text, no stylesheet-support for MT-Plugin (maybe others do better), no category-download (ok, again an Outlook problem) therefore need to manual update it…
• Commercial: I would have to pay money to use it – no way with these lacks of usabilty

example of a time-based filter query in Sharpreader

well, therefore I uninstalled version 1.3 today, despite some other features like offline posting might let me come back – for a different, corporate, setup and different version at a later point…