RSS Gators

May 17, 2008

NewzCrawler

Filed under: Windows Rss Readers — Tags: , , , , , , — admin @ 9:26 am

NewzCrawler is a rss/atom reader, news aggregator, browser and blog client for Windows which provides access to news content from various sources:

Syndicated news given in XML-based formats (Atom, RSS, RDF, BackSlash etc.);
Usenet (NNTP) newsgroups;
Web pages (HTTP).
It gathers news content from each source channel and displays them in a number of views: News List, News Balloon and News Ticker. NewzCrawler’s user interface is similar to an ordinary MS Outlook Express-like user interface. It supports many back-end headline syndication file formats and embeds web browser for extra fast news surfing.

The main difference from other rss readers is that NewzCrawler rapidly retrieves news from various web sources in background and displays them in comfortable customizable views. It is the only solution available that combines RSS, Atom, Newsgroups and Web pages in one application.

NewzCrawler Features:

Read news from various sources: ATOM, RSS, RDF, Usenet Newsgroups (NNTP), Web (HTTP);
Compose messages with full-featured WYSIWYG editor and post them to your weblog on any Blogger, Metaweblog, MovableType or LiveJournal API supporting website;
Browse actual news articles in the web using built-in browser;
Keep informed about the most recent news in elegant manner with News Ticker and News Balloon;
Synchronize your subscriptions and news read status using permanent or dial-up connection;
Email interesting news and web pages to your friends;
Search for news by keywords;
Organize news channels in a fully customizable tree structure;
Download podcasts and listen them in your favorite media player;
Use MS Agent characters for speech synthesis.

Download newzcrawler

SharpReader

Filed under: Windows Rss Readers — Tags: , , , — admin @ 9:00 am

SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows.

* Prior to running SharpReader, you will need to install the .NET Framework, version 2.0 or version 1.1 SP1.

Features of Sharpreader :

  • Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc.
  • Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the <wfw:commentrss> standard).
  • Group subscribed feeds into custom categories.
  • Feed settings like refresh-rate and purge timeout can be set per feed or per category. Category-wide settings apply to all feeds in that category that are still set to “Default” for the setting in question.
  • Dialog-less way of subscribing to new feeds – just drag a link from your browser into SharpReader, or enter the url into the address-bar at the top.
  • Feedster integration to easily search weblogs and newssites for specific terms, and even subscribe to such a search to be notified of new results.
  • Support for proxy-servers and proxy authentication.
  • Reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding.
  • Minimizes to the system-tray.
  • Systray popup when new items arrive (can be disabled on a per-feed or per-category basis through the properties pane).
  • Easy keyboard navigation to go the next or previous unread item.
  • Import and export your subscriptions using OPML.
  • Filter items.
  • International Character-set support.
  • HTTP Authentication support.

 

May 16, 2008

RSS News Aggregators

Filed under: Rss Aggregators — Tags: , , — admin @ 12:33 pm

News Aggregator: Software that compiles news from multiple sources in a single location

A news aggregator religiously reads a sum of RSS feeds from specficied web sources, displaying up to date information chronologically.  Subscribers determine what feeds are viewed in the news aggregator.

RSS news aggregator softwares:

NewsGator
NEWSGATOR Runs in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as weblogs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right into your Outlook folders.   

NewsRanker
NEWSRANKER is an RSS aggregator that sorts news items by how interesting it thinks you’ll find them. With the NewsRanker you can stay on top of hundreds of subscriptions without wasting time digging through the many items that you don’t care about.   

* for more info and software see RSS Readers

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