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December 21, 2004
Pluck Sucks (again)
I have posted about Pluck before (back in March). At that time I was casting about for an RSS Reader. The author of Pluck was quite Plucky at the time and sent me a comment.
So this time when I was looking for a simple to use RSS reader for my team to standardize on, I gave Pluck another try (this time version 1.095.005). Unfortunately it fell short in two key areas.
1. It only works in IE. Half our team uses Firefox (which has it's own very good RSS reader integrated with Bookmarks thankyou).
2. It can't read secure pages. For my team blog there are two levels of passwords. Pluck doesn't prompt you for the password the server is asking for, it only tells you it can't find the .RDF file (404 error).
So I recommended NewsGator which works in Outlook of course, but I spend more time there than the browser anyway and yes it handles secure pages just fine, asking for the log-on credentials.
Keep working at it Pluck.... It took Microsoft till 3.1 to get Windows usable!
Posted by Martin at December 21, 2004 8:08 PM
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Have you given Onfolio a try for your RSS reading needs? It sits inside of the browser and fully supports IE and Firefox. It will work with secure feeds, but I'm not sure how it will work with two levels of passwords, but you should give it a try. The RSS reader was just added in the 2.0 beta that can be downloaded for free from http://beta.onfolio.com.
disclosure - I am a QA engineer over at Onfolio
Posted by: mike 
at December 23, 2004 8:04 AM
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