FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS feed ticker.
It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites and blogs, directly on your desktop.
Features
Supports RSS, and Atom feed format.
Shows news title, summary, age and source.
Customizable interface.
May be "pinned" to the desktop (always visible) or automatically hide when the computer is in use.
May be set to automatically hide when in full screen applications (games, movies etc.)
Customizable keyboard shortcuts to pause the scrolling, pin the ticker, visit the news item and more.
Can import and export feeds from other feed readers (using OPML).
Supports subscribing to feeds directly from Firefox.
Portable.
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FeedRoller
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Awasu
Awasu is a state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded with features for both casual personal use and professional, high-powered information management.
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Rooster Feeds Agent
Rooster is a powerful and flexible RSS feeds reader for Windows.
It allows us to:
• Simultaneously download articles for multiple feeds.
• Schedule general checks and/or checks per feed basis.
• Post the articles.
• Edit and store variety of download-conditionals.
• Manage (display/move/delete/flag) articles in the extreme flexible way.
• Perform action on articles (Save them as files, print, transfer, e-mail, flag, set status and much more).
• Customize our news center with the use of another powerful tool - Filters.
• Store articles for off-line reading.
• Manage (name/edit/create/delete/store) newsboxes for feeds.
• Use Newsboard to preview feeds and read articles online.
• Store feeds info in editable (plain text) files.
• Import/export feed subscriptions.
• Address feeds and keep URLs within an editable table for quick updating.
• Quickly find the articles.
• Filter articles on keywords and/or phrases.
Rooster also includes:
• User friendly and fast-responding interface.
• Two general interface styles: Single Main Window and Multiple Windows.
• Windows/panes layouts.
• Plain-text (UNIX-compatible) newsboxes to store articles.
• Article grouping.
• Extensive enclosures/podcasts management.
• Support for all versions of RSS, ATOM & RDF feeds.
• International language support for articles (User interface is English-only).
• Feed groups.
• News Ticker.
• Extended Delivery Service (Addins support).
• Article tokens.
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QuiteRSS
RSS/Atom feed reader written on Qt.
Features
Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application)
User filters
Proxy configuration: automatic or manual
Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered
Embedded browser (Webkit core)
Mark news starred
Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer
Automatic cleanup on close using criterias
Enable/Disable images in news preview
Ability to quickly hide feed tree (for comfortable viewing)
Open feed or news in own tab
Quick news filter and quick search in browser
Sound notification on new news
Popup notification on new news
Show new or unread news counter on tray icon
Minimize on system tray: on start, on close, on minimize
Import/Export feeds (OPML-files)
Portable (Windows)
Free working set (Windows)
Shortcuts
Check for updates
Cross-platform
Multilingual
Open-source ;)
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NFReader
NFReader is a small and simple to use Feed reader for RSS, Atom and RDF feeds. Feeds and group of feeds can be exported to OPML files. The import from OPML files is supported as well.
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RSSMore
RSSMore is a free rss screensaver that lets you subscribe to any number of RSS feeds and view them in your rss screen saver. You can also specify a folder (including its sub folders) to provide background images. The RSSMore rss reader screensaver loops through the list of feeds and shows the items and their contents in transparent text boxes over your background images. You can also click/browse any news headlines directly from the rss feed screensaver.
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Brief
Brief is a light-weight feed reading extension for http://alternativeto.net/software/firefox/ . Designed to be easy to use and streamlined, with exactly the right set of features.
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Feeder
Feeder is the easiest way to follow feeds. An extension for http://alternativeto.net/software/google-chrome/ and http://alternativeto.net/software/safari/ with a lot more to come.
An with feeder Pro you can access to feeder online and sync between all your devices.
It's a sleek, simple and pretty way of keeping track of your latest feeds, inspired by Firefox's Live Bookmarks.
Features
- Instantaneously see when new posts are added to one of your feeds
- Easily subscribe to new feeds by clicking the browser icon
- Intuitively manage your feeds
- Right click context-menus in popup-menu let you mark all as read, and other nifty shortcuts
- Export your feeds so you can import them on another computer and/or keep them as backups for safekeeping
- Customize your feeds by choosing how many posts to display, or changing the title
- Organize your feeds using folders and sorting with drag and drop
- Choose between two different themes: Dark or light
- Everything is contained within the browser so no other third-party sites are needed
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Bamboo Feed Reader
Bamboo is feed reader add-on for http://alternativeto.net/software/firefox/ and http://alternativeto.net/software/mozilla-thunderbird/.
Main features of Bamboo add-on:
- Reader for Atom and RSS formats
- Import and export with OPML format
- Feed search (Results provided by Google)
- Simple subscription from a web page or a URL
- Ads blocker for HTML content
- Automatic update
- Color themes
Available languages: English / French / Chinese / Spanish / Swedish / Polish / Greek / German / Italian
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RSS Guard
RSS Guard is useful and (very) tiny RSS 0.92/1.0/2.0 & ATOM 1.0 feed reader developed using the Qt framework.. It can keep feeds organized in categories, update information from them automatically and notice user if there is new message.
Features
separate encoding for each feed (changeable via settings)
tray bubble notification
no huge dependencies
lightweight
PROXY servers supported (Socks5, Http)
x-platformity
automatic fetching of new messages
browsing messages in tabs
browsing messages in internal web browser (with Webkit core)
option to open messages in external web browser
news syndication standards followed
OPML 1.0 compatible
RGX (RSS Guard XML files) compatible
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SE-RssTools
SE-RssTools is a set of programs for RSS reading and writing which allows to view or create and edit RSS, ATOM, RDF, iTunes Podcast or XML feeds without knowledge of RSS format and structure.
With SE-WriteRSS you can create and edit RSS feeds. All latest RSS formats are supported.
SE-ReadRSS allows you to manage feeds and messages. It has clear tabbed interface and configurable folder tree. Convenient message filter helps you quickly and easily navigate through news messages.
SE-RssTools is all what you need to write and read your news.
Portable version is available.
SE-ReadRSS features:
Clear multilingual tabbed interface: English, Deutsch, Russian, Chinese, Polish and Japan
RSS, RDF, Atom and iTunes Podcast feed formats support
Message filter for quick message navigation
Configurable feed tree for better messages management with drag-and-drop support
Share news via E-Mail, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
SE-WriteRSS features:
Simple interface which lets you create and edit RSS without XML format knowledge
Latest RSS 2.0 standard support
Interface is translated to English, Deutsch, Russian, Chinese, Polish and Japan
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GreatNews
Fast Reading
GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across rss feeds, optimized for fast reading. So you can skim through pages in seconds, and pick interesting ones to dig in.
News Highlighting
Automatic news highlighting makes important news stand out. Fully customizable with keywords, channel selections, and foreground/ background colors.
Save & Organize
GreatNews stores all your favorite articles locally, so you wont lose any article when the web site is down or updated. You can also assign labels to articles so that you can retrieve them later by a single click.
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Readefine Desktop
Readefine Desktop is an AIR app which uses Flex, creating a really nice, clean layout for your RSS / http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/ feeds, text or HTML content. Read content in a book like multi-column layout and tweak settings like justification, column width, etc. for that perfect look.
Features
Beautiful multi-column, newspaper like layout for RSS and Google Reader.
Dislike scrolling text? Readefine divides text into multiple pages for easy reading.
Mark these as Read - The "Next Page" button in Magazine Layout marks the articles shown to you as read (in Google Reader), then gets more content.
Looks great no matter what screen size.
Use keyboard shortcuts like + and - to change font size. Shift + J to justify text.
Instapaper, ,Twitter, ReadItLater Support.
The desktop version contacts Google directly and only talks to Readefine servers for self-updating.
Resizes pictures and videos to fit within the column.
Re-flows text according to the available size.
Makes long plain text files beautiful and also sections them for performance.
Removes stray newlines, empty p, br tags.
Supports drag and drop of text/rss/html.
Copy paste or load a file from your computer (load, not upload)
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Planet
Planet is a feed (atom, rss) aggregator and reader. It downloads news feeds published online aggregates their content together into a single combined feed in html, rss and atom form, latest news first.
It uses Mark Pilgrims Universal Feed Parser to read from RDF, RSS and Atom feeds; and Tomas Styblos templating engine to output static files in any format you can dream up.
It was programmed in Python.
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BlogBridge
BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator.
BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.
BlogBridge also gives users the option to create an account with the free "BlogBridge Service", which essentially lets users upload a list of their feeds to their account so that they can synchronize their feeds across multiple computers. The service can also be used to back up feeds in the event of data loss. Starting from version 6.0, BlogBridge features a built-in "memo tracker", detailed statistics, significant performance improvements and various other fixes.
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Feed Notifier
Feed Notifier is an application for Windows and Mac OS X that resides in the system tray or status bar and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds. By default, the pop-ups look like this (on Windows)…
Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.
Main Features
Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
Clean look and feel, doesn’t get in your way.
Configurable polling interval for each feed.
Configurable popup duration.
Configurable popup size, position and transparency.
Configurable popup border size and color.
Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
Popups show item age and author.
Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
Advanced keyword filtering options.
Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.
Supports using a proxy server.
Displays favicon for feeds when available.
Multi-threaded feed polling.
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Sage (RSS Add-on for Firefox)
Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't.
* Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds
* Newspaper feed rendering customizable via style sheets
* Feed Discovery
* Integrates with Firefox’s bookmark system
* Imports and exports OPML feed lists
* Support for a number of locales: Argentine Spanish, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish
* Simple, one step install / uninstall
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RSS Tab
[The app depended on http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/ and it is going to switch to http://alternativeto.net/software/feedly/ ]
RSS Tab is a fast way to organize, read and share the content of your favorite sites.
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Omea Reader
Omea Reader is a free and easy to use RSS reader, NNTP news reader, and web bookmark manager. It's fast, it aggregates, and it keeps you organized. Check out the additional features: lightning-fast desktop search, flexible information organizer, contextual access, and quick extensibility for developers who want more.
Why Omea Reader
All-in-one feed reader: Read RSS feeds, Atom feeds. Also read newsgroups and bookmarked web pages, all in one easy to use information environment.
Stay Organized: It's easy to organize and categorize your RSS feeds, and you can automate the process with a few clicks.
Search: Find specific information quickly with Omea Reader's desktop search functionality.
Browser Integration: Subscribe to feeds, directly from your browser, within seconds. Omea will find the feed for you even if you can't see an RSS link
Contextual access: Create custom Views to separate your resources based on their characteristics. Create custom Workspaces to divide your work info from your personal info, or from your projects. See only what you want, with one click.
Manage Podcasts: Download podcasts directly through Omea, and keep them organized.
Helpful extras: Create Clippings - excerpts from larger documents that you can file, search, and link. Use an array of Flags to help you set priorities and remember to follow up. Tack your own free-form notes onto any resource with Annotations.
Compatibility: Omea Reader runs on the same database as Omea Pro, so you can try Reader now and upgrade to Pro later without losing any of your resources or preferences.
Extensibility: Developers can extend and customize Omea Reader by writing plugins using the Omea Open API.
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NewsBlur
NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. It shows you the original site and allows you to read stories directly off the site while keeping track of what you read. It also filters and highlights stories you like and dislike. NewsBlur has an active community of shared stories, published on each user's blurblog.
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