RSS - Newsreader

Natelle_2 · 11 October 2005 at 7:57PM

I realise I'm way behind the times but I've just become aware of the RSS facility.

What is the best newsreader programme I should consider, and is there a freeware option. I currently use Both IE and Firefox for access to the web. From what little I know I have been told that I don't need a newsreader if I use firefox all the time, but I'm not sure enough yet if I should stop using IE.

Any help would be appreciated.

Toxteth_OGrady · 11 October 2005 at 7:59PM

Newsgator

Also it integrates very nicely with Outlook, if you use that as your mail client (not Outlook Express).

:cool:

TOG

sra · 11 October 2005 at 8:11PM

I love my little Firefox Sage plugin.
I change the setting to not show the feed summary in the main area so I can click on the headline of a story and see it fully.

Here's a little flash I made - I made it to help me learn the flash software so it's rough and doesn't go into detail

There are a few online RSS readers appearing but they are in beta and aren't fully ready yet -

Google also brought out this online reader last week but they've been overwhelmed and it can get quite slow.

www.google.com/ig
www.start.com
both display RSS feeds as part of their function.

There are lots and lots of reader nowadays but they all come pre-loaded with a lot of junk

frak · 11 October 2005 at 8:44PM

try feeddemon
comes with loads of rss feeds already set up for you.
has tabbed browsing very customisable and fast

Katgoddess · 11 October 2005 at 8:52PM

I use bloglines which is very simple and loads into your firefox/Ie window.

http://www.bloglines.com/

Chippy_Minton · 11 October 2005 at 9:00PM

Natelle wrote:

What is the best newsreader programme I should consider, and is there a freeware option. I currently use Both IE and Firefox for access to the web. From what little I know I have been told that I don't need a newsreader if I use firefox all the time, but I'm not sure enough yet if I should stop using IE.

Any help would be appreciated.

Firefox has a simple built-in RSS feature called 'Live Bookmarks' which creates a bookmark folder containing links to news headlines. For example, if you go to BBC News, at the bottom right hand corner there's an orange icon

. Click this, then 'Subcribe to rss...' and select a folder to create the live bookmarks in. You now have a set of bookmarks which update automatically as new stories come in, and which you can click to open the page in your browser. If this is a bit too basic for you the Sage extension mentioned by sra provides better integration with FF.

For a standalone newsreader, I use RssReader.

frak - I agree, FeedDemon is great, but it's $29.95 after the 30 day trial period.

sra · 14 October 2005 at 2:42AM

Just found GreatNews:
http://www.curiostudio.com/feature.html
which doesn't need to be installed. You can run it from whater folder you unzip it to

Too late to give it a proper look. But it looks very good.

pin · 14 October 2005 at 9:51AM

Katgoddess wrote:

I use bloglines which is very simple and loads into your firefox/Ie window.

http://www.bloglines.com/

I also use Bloglines. Its great for RSS feeds especially if you use different computers (i.e at work and at home).

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