Feed Reader
A still incomplete directory of free feed readers:
WINDOWS
- Awasu - combined feed reader and scraper
- EffNews
- NewsGator - plugin for Outlook 2000/2002. Details at Greg Reinacker's Weblog
- Trillian Pro News Plugin - 0.9x feeds only
- Ampethadesk - and at 0xDECAFBAD: Amphetadesk Outliner
- FeedReader - now under GPL
- FeedExpress - .NET Runtime required
- Syndirella - .NET Runtime required
OTHER OS
- Mac OS: NetNewsWire Lite
- GNOME/Linux: Straw - there must be for more Linux, but haven't checked that
MULTI-OS
- Native ports: BottomFeeder - available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS 8, 9, X, HP-UX 10, 11, SGI, AIX, Solaris und Alpa Unix. Phew.
- Java: nntp//rss - bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients. For Windows: Running nntp//rss as a Windows Service using JNT, a Windows Service wrapper for Java applications
- Java: HotSheet
- Python: Peerkat
MOZILLA
- peerfear.org: Hacking RSS support into Mozilla with protozilla - Have Mozilla "rendering RSS into HTML from an arbitrary URL without any major XUL or Mozilla modifications while at the same time allowing users to hack the presentation."
- NewsMonster - hangs on my machines. NewsMonster Weblog.
- RSSzilla - nothing to install yet
Entry first published 2009-05-18 00:59, last edited 2009-05-18 00:59
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