[dalewking]

I seem to have tried them all and can't find anything that really works. I want an RSS reader and I want a Podcatcher. I'm OK with them being two separate programs.

Currently for podcatching I use Juice on the PC and WiMP and MobSync (for formats that WiMP won't recognize) to get the files to the handheld via ActiveStink. The total unreliability of ActiveStink makes this a pain. It also means that I won't get new episodes until I sync.

I'd like something that runs on the Pocket PC.

For a podcatcher, it needs to be reliable and automatic. A couple of podcatchters have the notion that a podcatcher just gives you a list of available podcasts and you select which ones to download. No, downloads are supposed to be automatic. If I wanted to manually download things all I need are a set of links in a browser.

If you search the web all the advice has been to use FeederReader, but it seems to be defunct. The website is still up, but to download it you have to sign up for the forums and that site doesn't exist any more. I did manage to get that latest version, but when you run it, it says it is out of date and that I should go to the forums to get a new version.

HubDog is bloatware and was not very reliable.

The most promising app I have found is Egress, but it has some issues in that it finds it necessary to download all past episodes of certain podcasts, particularly the ones with video. And it keeps saying all the RSS items I already read are now new again.

For an RSS reader it must be able to handle things like the Dilbert comics RSS feed that has the comic as an enclosure and allow me to see the comic at full size. Most of the well-known readers fail here (Egress does not).

So here's hoping that there is something out there I have overlooked or something I have looked at before is not the crap I found it to be. If you give me a suggestion I will try it even if I have tried it before and post my thoughts on it.