The Bottom Line
BlogExpress is a nice, simple and highly functional news reader. You can't currently use it to search news or work on individual items, though.
Pros
- BlogExpress pleases the eye
- Easy to use and very functional, BlogExpress allows for effective news consumption
Cons
- BlogExpress can't break out individual news items
- Search and virtual folders are missing from BlogExpress
- BlogExpress offers only one update schedule for all feeds
Description
- BlogExpress is an RSS/Atom news feed reader and blog aggregator.
- Feeds can be organized using categories in BlogExpress.
- BlogExpress makes subscribing easy via drag and drop and an easy to use subscription dialog.
- You can send article notifications via email directly from BlogExpress.
- BlogExpress lets you import subscriptions from OPML files.
- BlogExpress supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/3/XP and requires the .NET 1.1 framework.
Guide Review - BlogExpress 1.56.2 - RSS News Feed Reader
BlogExpress is a pleasure to look at and a pleasure to use. It simple and classy design lets you browse news quickly, and its categories let you do it in an organized fashion, too. BlogExpress' elegance makes up for much of the missing feature-happiness (which, of course, makes up for itself anyway).
There are some things I missed, though. Being able to work on individual items (flagging them, for example) and searching (or filters and virtual folders even) would make great additions to BlogExpress, as would per-feed update schedules and automatic expiry of old news items.
All in all, BlogExpress is no misnomer and efficient, but it lacks some feature power.
