BlogTick Simple Blog Monitor 2.5

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Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $4.95 to buy
Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
Date added: April 05, 2005
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CNET editors' rating: 2.0 stars
Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 2 votes
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

This monitor aims to simplify your life by organizing and keeping you current with all of your favorite blogs. But BlogTick Simple Blog Monitor is simple in name only; figuring out this program is an exercise in frustration.

BlogTick does have one thing going for it: it's unobtrusive. It consists only of a small icon that fits in your system tray. With a help menu nowhere to be found, we immediately were scratching our heads trying to figure out how to work the program. A right-click gave us a brief menu that included a few options for customizing the frequency and the number of blog entries. There's also the option to add a new blog, but we kept getting an error message each time we entered a new RSS feed location. BlogTick includes a default blog with the installation, so we were able to see how the program is supposed to work. Clicking each blog link from the Entries menu took us directly to the actual blog page.

Had a help menu been included, this review probably would have gone in another direction. That being said, users should look elsewhere for a more user-friendly blog monitor.

Publisher's description

From PaintedBus Partners :

Simple Blog Feed Monitor that lives in your system tray. The animated icon tells you when a new entry has been made to each feed. Recent enhancements have made monitoring multiple feeds much easier and more intuitive.

Version 2.5 features multi-feed monitoring enhancements.

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