What is Your Favorite RSS Reader? 91
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?"
Re:Most importantly? (Score:2)
Re:Most importantly? (Score:1)
Safari as an RSS reader (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Safari as an RSS reader (Score:5, Informative)
They call it livemarks and it autmatically picks up on sites that offer feeds. You can add a livemark by clicking on a button on an RSS/Atom Enabled website. It feels just like a folder of bookmarks (where each bookmark is an entry).
Re:Safari as an RSS reader (Score:2)
Safari 2.0 (Score:2, Informative)
Otherwise, there are plenty of projects on Sauceforge [sourceforge.net] and Virgintracker [versiontracker.com]. Go try some of them out.
Net News Wire (Score:4, Informative)
Not affiliated.
Re:Net News Wire (Score:1)
Re:Net News Wire (Score:2)
The only problem with NNWlite is that it does not recognize OPML groups. You have to recreate your groups if you're importing an OPML file.
If you want a more advanced FREE (well, donationware) newsreader, NewsMac is a good choice.
Here. [thinkmac.co.uk]
I've tried RSSOwl (Java) but I didn't like it. On XP, I
Straw (Score:3, Informative)
FireFox Nightly (Score:5, Informative)
"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
Re:FireFox Nightly (Score:2)
Sweet, looking forward to it. This is exactly where an RSS reader should be IMO, built into the browser. Just as long as it doesn't add to bloat. :)
Re:FireFox Nightly (Score:2)
For FireFox users, if you're using the Default theme, and see a lightning bolt, thats the livelinks.
Opera M2 (Score:2)
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.
Dogpile (Score:1)
actually, it's an IE toolbar. I installed it just for the reader, because I wanted one which scrolls vertically.
a web based service (Score:5, Informative)
It's a great reader. And always with me there, where I have an Internet connection.
Re:a web based service (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:a web based service (Score:3, Informative)
liferea is nice... and forumzilla... and opera (Score:5, Informative)
I also use Forumzilla [mozdev.org] from Thunderbird. Opera [opera.com] supports rss directly in its mail client.
Yahoo (Score:4, Informative)
http://e.my.yahoo.com/config/promo_content?.module =ycontent [yahoo.com]
Re:Yahoo (Score:3, Interesting)
LiveJournal (Score:2)
I recommend JWZ's cheesegrater [jwz.org] for scraping RSS feeds out of sites that fail to provide one.
Re:LiveJournal (Score:2)
Or just get someone who is paid to make the feed and then you can add it for free..
Re:Yahoo (Score:2)
Shrook (Score:2)
Pulp Fiction (Score:3, Insightful)
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?
As far as Windows goes... (Score:2)
I have tried RSSOwl [sourceforge.net] Open source, cross-platform, so OSX also, but Java, so a little topheavy;
There's also Abilon [abilon.org], Pluck [pluck.com] (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.
Re:As far as Windows goes... (Score:2)
Mozilla Firefox & Sage Extension (Score:5, Informative)
Bloglines (Score:4, Informative)
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!
Re:Bloglines (Score:3, Informative)
Bloglines really is a fantastic service. I just hope they stick around, as all of this is free and I have to imagine it costs money to run it.
Slashdock! (Score:4, Informative)
Highly recommended.
NetNewsWire Lite (Score:1)
Limited experience personally (Score:2)
I found a nice Windows reader called rssbandit [rssbandit.org] 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.
RSS Bandit (Score:5, Informative)
Bloglines (Score:1)
NetNewsWire Lite (Score:1)
Check out Sage or Sharpreader (Score:3, Informative)
For Windows XP, Sharpreader [sharpreader.net] is a good free aggregator. It can get slow if you have hundreds of feeds.
Plucky (Score:1)
Plucky [geoffreygrosenbach.com]
Mozilla Sidebar RSS (Score:1)
IRC Bot (Score:2)
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.
Planet (Score:3, Interesting)
On my Palm: JPluck (Score:2, Informative)
snownews (Score:1)
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.
Re:snownews (Score:1)
RSSReader (Score:2)
It's free and for Windows. Pretty sweet and simple.
SharpReader (Score:1)
I use bottomfeeder (Score:2)
I use BottomFeeder [cincomsmalltalk.com]. 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.
The Juicy News Network (Score:2)
https://jnn.dev.java.net
blosxom+blagg (Score:1)
Livejournal (Score:2)
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.
Opera (Score:4, Informative)
OmniWeb (Score:2)
OmniGroup [omnigroup.com]
PHP and lastRss (Score:1)
AmphetaDesk (Score:1)
Combined with AmphetaOutlines [decafbad.com] it is really powerfull.
RSS Reader for cellphone (Score:1)
Re:RSS Reader for cellphone (Score:4, Informative)
Re:RSS Reader for cellphone (Score:1)
Re:RSS Reader for cellphone (Score:2)
Bloglines (Score:2, Informative)
Bloglines [bloglines.com] 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:
Enlightenment's eRSS (Score:2)
rss2email (Score:2)
Re:rss2email (Score:2)
Yep, having an IMAP box that you can read from any number of different places sure beats having to figure out which feed entries you've already seen.
I was using the Info Aggregator [blogstreet.com] until I decided I'd rather do it myself.
IMAP for RSS is the only way to go.
FeedReader (Score:1)
On Windows... (Score:2)
Sage for Firefox (Score:2)
read4me (Score:1)
Not for everyone but... (Score:1)
Re:Not for everyone but... (Score:2)
DIY (Score:1)
Feed Demon (Score:2, Informative)
rss and atom support.
newspaper view (although I hate this mode)
opml supoprt
performs decently with badly formatted feeds
small and fast
aKregator (Score:2, Informative)
Akregator [sf.net]
NewsMac (Score:3, Informative)
For Mac OS X.
Free. Though please send a donation in support if you like it.
nntp/rss converts RSS feeds into newgroups. (Score:2, Informative)
NetNewsWire, By A Landslide (Score:1)
Kinja (Score:2)
feeddemon (Score:2)
KNewsTicker (Score:1)
irssi+newsline.pl (Score:1)