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Cyndicate goes 1.2

by Juned on April 5th, 2008

Came across Peter Cohen’s post, Cyndicate RSS reader improves performance, over at Macworld.com. And it reports about the new version of the RSS/Atom Aggregator (Cyndicate RSS Reader 1.2) for the Mac OS (and the PowerPC).

So what are the features and new features of Cyndicate?

Cyndicate Features include:

Mail-like interface
Full RSS and Atom Support
StyleSheets
Organize your news

- Folders
- Smart Folders
- Filters
- Flags
- Labels
- Persistence

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Automatic Ratings
Podcasts and Enclosure
Search
Universal (Made for both PowerPC and Intel Macs)

Changes and added feature Cyndicate 1.2 include

_ Added Twitter as a Share This option for articles.
_ The database will now optimize itself on quit once every 7 days.
_ Check at start-up will no longer check feeds set to check manually.
_ Video enclosures now have their own download option in preferences.
_ Added an new check interval, Explicit.
_ Fixed an issue with accented characters in feeds with a Latin1 encoding.
_ Fixed an issue with the Fetch Info option for feeds.
_ Various bug and perf
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Registered users of Cyndicate get an update for free. Cyndicate 1.2 is priced at 29.95 US dollars.

A free update for registered users, Cyndicate 1.2 costs $29.95.

One interesting “feature” of Cyndicate is its privacy policy that reads:

Cynical Peak Software respects the right to privacy of our users. We do not collect any information about your feeds, viewing habits, which articles you share, or anything else. Your privacy is yours, not ours to use for marketing.[[Source]

This is interesting because a lot of the feed readers do track viewing habits of its clients,.

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