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What is Your Favorite RSS Reader?
Cyberhwk asks: "What is your favorite RSS reader? I've been trying to find a nice RSS reader. I am most intrested in an rss reader that can be run on OS X but I'm also intrested in Linux and Windows XP as well. I'm mostly interested in freeware because I'm currently going to college and I can't afford anything at the moment. So what do you use for an RSS reader? What does it run on? Most importantly is it free?"
Never heard of a repetitive stress syndrome reader. Is that something the prevents you from hurting your hard while surfing p0rn?
If "free" is the most important attribute, then use Lynx. It works fine, and it's free. But it's not great.
Wouldn't the quality of the software be more important than the license it's released under? Or is ideology all that matters?
Safari will have RSS reading built into it with MacOS 10.4. There's your Mac solution. =P
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Don't forget, next year when OSEX X.IV comes out, it will come with Safari 2.0, which includes an RSS reader.
Otherwise, there are plenty of projects on Sauceforge and Virgintracker. Go try some of them out.
I swear, if I see another Slashdot comment with "It will be interesting to see"...
gnus under (x)emacs has an RSS reader
Not affiliated.
Straw is a very nice app for Linux (Gnome): website here... be careful about the dependencies when compiling it.
I use Livemarks. Everyone not using FF Nightlys will see in 1.0. It makes an rss into a folder in your bookmarks...
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"RSS feed integration into Firefox... specifically:
- when a page is encountered that has the
link tag in the display an icon in the status bar that opens an Add
Bookmark dialog to add the feed as a bookmark.
- RSS Feed bookmarks behave like folders in that they can be opened, showing the
posts as bookmarks underneath. They should be immutable folders however (cannot
cut, delete from them, cannot insert into them, drag operations blocked).
- the major RSS formats should be supported (1.0 RDF, 2.0 XML etc)
A suggested approach is to decorate such bookmarks with a flag, e.g.
LIVE_BOOKMARK="true" and when the bookmarks datasource is asked for children of
that container, it can see that it's a live bookmark and fetch the content.
Caching of results can be implemented if there are update problems.
As a side note Live Bookmarks are the perfect use case of Scheduled Update
Notifications... they are files that change often and there's a real value in
having the icon change subtly or something similar when there's a new post. This
should not be seen as a pre-requisite for the former however.
I'm not likely to get to this for 1.0 so I'm looking for help to implement...
this would be a great project for someone to get their feet wet in RDF/Bookmarks
code." -- Ben Goodger
Source: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24407
It's probably not what you're looking for (it's not free, although there is a free ad-supported version for pretty much any OS), but I use Opera's M2 client.
Since I use Opera for browsing and mail, it's a natural extension for me to use it as an RSS reader, too. I especially like the filtering, for grouping messages from different feeds (and email) into similiar views based on topics. I dislike having lots of extra apps open for basic things, so the integrated solution works well for me.
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/tbar/takeatour.h tm
actually, it's an IE toolbar. I installed it just for the reader, because I wanted one which scrolls vertically.
Bloglines
It's a great reader. And always with me there, where I have an Internet connection.
Liferea has a clean gnome2 interface and supports atom.. I like it.
I also use Forumzilla from Thunderbird. Opera supports rss directly in its mail client.
Marques Johansson
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/promo_content?.module =ycontent
I use Shrook. It's not free, but the reason I chose it over NetNewsWire is that it does distributed checking. You can also run multiple copies on different machines and they'll keep in sync automatically.
Without you I'm one step closer to happiness without violence.
I prefer Freshly Squeezed Software's Pulp Fiction.
It's got an interface similar to Mail, and also features a built-in browser (via WebKit) so you needn't leave the application to post comments on people's blogs.
It's not free, but you should be able to scrounge up $25 right?
I like to use BLAM!. It is written with the mono APIs and has some solid features. Straw is another free application that does the same thing execpt it is written in plain old C instead of C#.
Life is offtopic.
FeedReader is my current favorite. Open souce and light, no .NET overhead.
I have tried RSSOwl Open source, cross-platform, so OSX also, but Java, so a little topheavy;
There's also Abilon, Pluck (both are Non-Open Source, but free).
I've yeat to find one with all the features I like, but Feedreader has been working for me quite well.
Both work really well for me!
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
And as a cherry on top, they have apps for all 3 major OS's that work with the website to notify you of updates when you're not using your browser. I don't personally use these helper apps though, so I can't vouch for them.
In summation: you should check it out, it's great!
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No, that's no typo. Slashdock is a dock-based RSS grabber. Works pretty darn good, author is helpful, and is very unobtrusive (or obtrusive, if you want it to be.) Used in conjunction with Camino, it makes for highly efficient browsing.
Highly recommended.
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For OS X, I recommend NetNewsWire Lite, which is free-as-in-beer and very functional.
but I can give my thumbs up towards Liferea on Linux. Straw is also good if for some reason Liferea isn't to your liking.
I found a nice Windows reader called rssbandit that I setup for a few people while doing Windows installs recently. They seemed to like it.
I have no experience with OS/X, so I can't put a vote towards anything there. The Linux apps are gtk based and the Windows app is a dotNet programmed app.
That's scary.
That's what I use (pay version, it comes with a cool little outliner and you can post to blogs with it). I recommend it. It can do "three pane" or "combined in a big list" views, and lets you group feeds so you can read the groups all combined. I.e. "Geek news" group has slashdot, gizmodo, CNET tech news in it, and I read the group all at once.
Also don't forget RSS is a *simple* format, you can whip up a Ruby script using REXML in about 10 minutes to download a bunch of feeds and convert them to HTML (or pass them to a text-to-speech program, or wrap them around spheres and bounce them on your desktop or............ you get the idea).
RSS Bandit is good, I switched to it from SharpReader some time ago and never went back.
http://bloglines.com/ Online, free and simple.
Free version of NetNewsWire is perfect for me, easy to organize subscriptions and fish through headlines quickly. See the link at the bottom for the free version.
For Windows XP, Sharpreader is a good free aggregator. It can get slow if you have hundreds of feeds.
Plucky
I always liked making a Mozilla Sidebar RSS from The One Ring. It should work with all versions of Mozilla/Firefox, and its rather painless.
Artist will always make art.
We put in an irc bot in an rss channel, that makes short url's. Its just spits out short url's, and it announces new rss news. Just click on the RSS news link in xirc and it opens up in mozilla.
I think part of the problem is people would post the same URL's for news all day, and everyone was saying "OLD NEWS". Rather annoying when people work 8-12 hours a day, its new News to them.
Lots of uses for IRC other than chat.
For the blogs I am reading, I am using a copy of Planet. While this is not a real RSS reader, it generates a nice slashdot like page from all the blogs I am interested in.
JPluck's great for scraping websites and RSS/Atom feeds onto a Palm on a scheduled basis.
Excellent text mode (TUI) RSS reader, free, open source, customizable key bindings, customizable browser. I use it on both linux and OS X. For Panther, you can get it from Darwinports.
Text mode reduces distraction, and let you focus on the content. That's a major point of RSS, isn't it?
Nobody has mentioned it yet, I'll have to sacrifice the mod point for this thread.
http://www.rssreader.com/
It's free and for Windows. Pretty sweet and simple.
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For Windows I highly recommend SharpReader. It's freeware (though not open source) and it works great, easy to use, etc. You can also set it to give you little notifications on new items. Check it out.
I use BottomFeeder. I've used it on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows, but it also works on Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, etc. I've found it to be more robust than SharpReader (SharpReader once gave me threadpool errors while updating my 50+ feeds, on dialup). I've yet to use a news aggregator on Linux/FreeBSD that has as many features as BottomFeeder.
Written by J. Gosling no less! Java, portable, has a text to speech output option anda UI that reacts gracefully to being resized and changed in horizontal or vertical orientation.
https://jnn.dev.java.net
I use a combination of blosxom, which I also use to write my blog, and blagg, which reads my feeds and generates blog entries of the new entries in a separate "news" category. In fact, I have replaced blagg with a rewrite in Python that I call (obviously) plagg, but I haven't done its web page yet, so stay tuned...
Karma: none (due to not believing in reincarnation)
I use Livejournal. It can act as a feed consumer as well as a producer (both for RSS and Atom).
:n peo ple/c omics /n ews/
Any syndicated account behaves just like a normal account, so I get my syndicated people at
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/sy
my comics at:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/
and my news at:
http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/friends/
And I can access these from any web connection.
My Journal
Vista:XPSP2::ME:98SE
I'm surprised no one has mentioned OmniWeb. It's a lovely, very Mac-like, RSS-built-right-in browser for OS X. I use it exclusively. :D
OmniGroup
I made my own. Sort of ...
If your a developer (maybe even if your not ..) lastRss offers a single class that retrieves and parses all the various RSS standards and is relatively quick too.
I expanded on an example provided on their website, Id link to it by my host is (still) down :(
As soon as Opera/Firefox/Thunderbird can provide more options for their current usenet/rss features, I wont need to keep looking for seperate programs ...
"Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing." -- Salvador Dali
Combined with AmphetaOutlines it is really powerfull.
Code is Speech. No to Censorship.
If anyone knows a free Java midlet RSS Reader which works with Nokia Series 40 phones, please tell me! Something like RSS Orbit, but freeware/open source!
Bloglines has a web-based interface, but makes sense if you will be using several different computers at different times. Unless RSS feeds develop an IMAP-like protocol, I will not be willing to download all my 100+ subscriptions once for every computer I use.
You may not appreciate using a web interface, but give it a try. In short, the benefits are:
Balanced against
Bloglines recently introduced a few new features, such as the ability to publish your own blog with them, but I think Wordpress or Typepad is better suited to that. No harm checking out their About page, anyway.
A very simple RSS (both RDF and XML) stream reader. eRSS is simple to set up, and allows for tweaking the settings of each stream you want on your desktop (see the three in the lower right, and one bottom center).
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http://feedreader.sf.net Its currently not being developed anymore, but its still a client that just does its job.
Trillian Pro, it also handles Instant Messaging.
It's a very nice sidebar. You can find it here. Basically, you bookmark your rss feeds in a specific folder, and Sage reads from that folder. I don't know if it can "discover" new feeds or not. (my guess is no, but i'll probably be corrected here if need be)
Not only will it read RSS for you, but it will rank the articles it thinks you will like. read4me
zfeeder is what I use. It's a php app for a web server. The big advantage is that you don't need anything installed on a client machine, so you can get your feeds pretty much anywhere.
Best Windows Freeware
that's a perfectly valid point.
offtopic maybe..
It seems like everyone's writing their own RSS reader from scratch now-a-days. There's not much to 'em.
Likewise. Though if you want to add a RSS/Atom feed that doesn't already exist on LJ, you need to be a paid or permanent member. Though you can just spend five bucks for two months of membership, add all the feeds you want that aren't already there, and read them for free from then on out.
I recommend JWZ's cheesegrater for scraping RSS feeds out of sites that fail to provide one.
http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp
rss and atom support.
newspaper view (although I hate this mode)
opml supoprt
performs decently with badly formatted feeds
small and fast
Runs on Kde its pretty fast and customizable
Akregator
For Mac OS X.
Free. Though please send a donation in support if you like it.
AZspot
I like nntprss , which acts like a RSS to NNTP (news) gateway. You can use your favorite newsreader (I use Mozilla) to read RSS feeds. And it's written in Java so it's cross-platform.
NetNewsWire 2.0 is in the works, and it will have a corresponding Lite version that's freeware. I've been part of the alpha/beta-testing group, and believe you me, it'll blow your socks off. Brent's been working VERY hard on making this a dynamic app. Scan his blog at inessential.com for what he's made public ...
Because it parses HTML as well as RSS and Atom, kinja is quite good as an online rss/blog accumulator.
There are no trolls. There are no trees out here.
I use FeedDemon from Nick Bradbury, the small developer behind the original Homesite. I never bought Homesite a while back so I was happy to support FeedDemon. This guy puts out superior software without bloat and with excellent UI. I think it's worth supporting developers like that.
RSS feeds, in your taskbar! Heaven, I tells ya :)
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
This includes an RSS newsreader so you can keep an eye on stuff whilst you are editing. Not only that but it includes Google groups monitoring and eBay alerts...
(www.crisp.com)
I have RSS as a line just below the IRC channel topic in my IRC-client (irssi), with the newsline.pl extension. It's wonderful.