I take it back. Sauce Reader will not replace Omea as my temporary RSS reader simply due to the fact of one glaring omission and a bug. Firstly the omission which is a missing sort function of feeds. When importing my OPML file my subscribed feeds are added in a seemingly random order. Great lets just sort them shall we? The answer is no, there is no sorting function in the program. w00t?

Secondly the bug. I like the ability to catch up with feeds by marking everything as read when I’m content that I’ve looked at what I find interesting, also a shortcut to the function is essential for speedy handling of lots of feeds. Sauce Reader does provides both the function and the shortcut but sadly the shortcut does not work.

So Sauce Reader is out and SharpReader is in. I’ve previously reverted to SharpReader when my primary reader went awry and it does the basic RSS reading very well. All I need from it to become my primary reader is a little bit of bells and whistles. Lets face it SharpReader does not sell itself all that well. For me two things are important in a program, 1) It fulfills it place in a correct and fast manner, 2) It makes me want to use it with some nice UI.

There I said it, I’m a UI whore