RSS Compendium - RSS Readers - Windows

This list will, of course, never be complete. If I'm missing anything please let me know. This list is from May 2006. The latest version was accidently deleted. I will try to update it as soon as possible.


1'st ZipCommander - Internet browser with 10 windows, file manager and RSS reader - all in one. Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

Active Web Reader - is a free web feed reader (aggregator). Microsoft Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 / Windows XP

Advanced Searchbar - a customizable toolbar for Internet Explorer. Search using 100+ search engines and eliminate annoying pop-ups. You get home-page protection, a screensaver launcher, a calculator, 70 games, media players (for CDs, DVDs, MPEGs, and MP3s), a sound recorder, system utilities, computer disk utilities, Windows Registry utilities, Web page translation (for 12 languages), 88 news providers, and 52 e-mail providers. The program integrates with instant-messenging programs (AIM, MSN, GAIM, ICQ, mIRC, Trillian, and Yahoo Pager), e-mail programs (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, and Thunderbird), and spyware removal programs (Spybot - Search & Destroy, Ad-Aware, PestPatrol, and MS AntiSpyware). The application also features an adult-content block option, weather reports, and driving directions. Include your own custom buttons to go to URLs or run executables on your computer, a RSS reader and ticker, complete tracks eraser, pop-up white listing

AgileRss - desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed. It also allows you to keep up-to-date with all your favourite sources of information that support the RSS protocol. Internet syndication and aggregation software, that runs on any java enabled operating system. Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium II system with 128 MB of RAM and 100 MB free disk space. Sun Microsystems Java VM version 5.0 or later

Alertbear - free Windows RSS reader that offers a true river of news

The All Headline News Reader - a simple and convenient way to receive automatic news updates from All Headline News and other as well as your choice of thousands of other websites?all for free! Fast and easy to install and use, the RSS reader brings together all the news you want to follow on your desktop. Simply click on a headline and the article displays instantly in your preferred web browser. Microsoft Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP or 2003

Alligator - new RSS aggregator [newsreader] developed on Mono (in C# language) platform with GTK#-based user interface

Alnera FeedBuster RSS Reader - runs on Windows 95 / 98 / NT / ME / 2000 / XP / 2003 and supports all RSS and Atom formats

Avant Browser - the top rated multi-window browser, which adds a batch of features and functionalities to Internet Explorer. Has a built-in RSS/ATOM Reader, which allows you to read RSS/ATOM feeds just like browsing web pages. And you can also keep your favorite feeds as bookmarks

Awasu - a free Windows news-reader that runs in the background on your computer and monitors sites for you. When it sees that something new has appeared, it will let you know

The Big Feed - completely free for personal use. There is no advertising, no hidden traps, no spyware, etc...Windows

Blog Navigator - makes it easy to read blogs on the Internet. It integrates into various blog search engines and can automatically determine RSS feeds from within properly coded websites. Windows

blogbot - an Internet Explorer add-on that is really a super-easy to use RSS/Atom news and blog reader. There is also a new version which plugs into Microsoft Outlook

BlogMatrix Sparks! - a multi-track recorder and mixer designed especially for the needs of podcasters, automatic uploading of your podcasts to the BlogMatrix server, a full featured podder and weblog reader for listening to other's podcasts

Brass - a dynamic Windows enhancement tool that uses a powerful plugin system. The Basic Start plugin can skin your task bar so that it has a bitmap background. The Desktop Text plugin can draw the contents of a file (and emulate the UNIX tail -f command) over the top of all your other windows, so you can monitor exactly what's going on with an application. The Newsgrinder plugin can display RSS news feeds directly on your desktop. The Mime plugin can even add mouse gestures to any application you use, so you can control it with a flick of your wrist. Other plugins can get each day's Dilbert cartoon and put it on your desktop, show your Outlook mail, tasks and appointments in a skinnable display. The latest version fixes problems with Microsoft APIs on some machines. It also adds global hotkey support to Brass and all plugins, OPML support for RSS and other user-friendly enhancements

Briz RSS Reader - an easy-to-use news reader for MS Windows. It allows you to subscribe to, download and read desired RSS/Atom feeds. News feeds can be aggregated to display all the items in the one news line

Chrysanth NETime Channel - enables users to view RSS, RDF and ATOM feeds directly inside Internet Explorer as normal web page. Users can simply enter the RSS news feed's URL into Internet Explorer's address bar and click Go, then the nicely formatted RSS news feed content will be immediately displayed as a normal web page

Composite - a free RSS/RDF feed aggregator. It's a .NET desktop app. You will need to have the .NET runtime installed in order to run it

CrackFeed - a little Windows systray app that you can hit whenever you need to get a quick Internet fix, by displaying RSS feeds

Crawler Toolbar - enhances your Internet experience and desktop environment with feature-rich plug-ins like MP3 recording and Internet radio streams. RSS feeds will keep you informed from your favorite news sources

Cross-Desktop - With Cross-Desktop you can manage Bookmarks, read RSS-feeds, treat ZIP archives as regular directories, and edit text files. The Web application integrates a functionally complete e-mail client and a URL download feature for file transfer based on a URL. Installs on any Web space allowing to run personally installed CGI scripts. Works with a standard browser on nearly any platform. It's simply your personal information manager (PIM). Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server, Perl, LWP-Module

CustomXML - organizes feeds into folders you can share with others. Drag&Drop XML feeds into browser to view with ease. FireWall and complete Computer Security program with built in SystemBodyGuard. Personal search robot to search the Web for you with our built in MySearchBot feature

Deepnet Explorer - the world's first browser with RSS news reader and P2P client integration. it is also the first browser to foil phishers

Digital Diary - a tool to write your diaries every day without needing to write your stuff in text files. Version 3.1 includes an RSS Feed reader

DocTray - loads the latest RSS Feeds from top technology news sites like DIGG, Slashdot, CNET, plus the latest from top medical journals New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA

EffNews RSS Reader for Windows - a minimalist RSS reader for Windows. The reader is shipped as part of the effbot.exe application framework. The reader is based on the effnews toolkit, which is a freely available Python library that includes a tolerant RSS parser and an asynchronous HTTP client module

egoClip - an RSS aggregator that sorts news items by how interesting it thinks you'll find them. You don't have to grade items manually. egoClip just notices when you show interest in an item and learns from that. Supports RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, CDF, and Atom feeds. Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP

Eluma - Integrated RSS reader and bookmark organizer with social sharing and commenting capabilities. Includes a browser toolbar for collecting, a desktop client for reading and organizing, and for receiving desktop alerts, and web access. Windows Vista/XP

ExactScores.com - browser add-in for IE. With it you can read rss/rdf feeds, create and publish your own rss 2.0 feeds, view on-line webcams live feeds, make screen shot of your screen at user definite time interval and publish it in internet. You may create galleries of rss, webcams, share files and published in internet from your computer with only one single mouse click. You can create your own small web shop and trade any files you want like mp3, movie, pictures, etc.

Feature Creature - an automated feature downloader, that enables you to retrieve online RSS Feeds, comics, columns, puzzles, news and any other bookmarkable content and view it from a integrated browser interface, rather than visiting each of the sites

Feed Farmer - Serve up ATOM/RSS/RDF feeds hot and fast with the Feed Farmer, a high-performance Feed Aggregator for .NET platform. Page scrubber shows you where the feeds are. Snarfer grabs your podcasts. Group feeds according to whim. Import feeds from anywhere. Plain formatting for print-and-go Internet newspaper. Plug-in architecture for extensibility

Feed Scout - an RSS/ATOM/RDF/XML reader that can be used directly from Internet Explorer. Free trial or buy for $24.95

FeedAmasser - this light weight Rss Feed Reader lets you store your feed channels with some descriptive labels and collect the Feeds as you like. This is an optimized tool for reading RSS Feeds only. ATOM Feeds are not supported

FeedBeast - a top of the line, up and coming desktop RSS reader for the Windows platform. It is built upon a powerful embedded database for extreme data-crunching power and is topped with an industry-leading intelligent user interface that will delight you with its ease of use and intuitiveness

FeedDemon - enables you to quickly explore the world of RSS from your desktop without having to visit hundreds of sites. Written by Nick Bradbury, creator of TopStyle and HomeSite, FeedDemon makes RSS as easy to access as your email

FeedExplorer - an RSS feed reader with an attractive and easy-to-use interface that allows you to organize your feeds into categories, and select from different display styles for your headlines. It comes with a built-in browser, and an integrated search function, as well as an option to watch for specific keywords. Additional features include OPML import/export and system tray notifications

FeedExpress -a freeware and OpenSource RSS feed reader. It basically lets you subscribe to several RSS/RDF sources, known as Subscriptions in FeedExpress, in the same way that Outlook Express lets you subscribe to several news groups. It caches and indexes all the feeds for each RSS subscription, making it easy to overview all your feeds

FeedGarner: RSS Aggregator & Podcast Client - Free .NET RSS Aggregator that can read RSS and Atom feeds as well as act as a Podcast client. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

FeedIt - Fast RSS/ATOM feed reader, works on Windows 2000/XP

FeedMon - a feed monitor and reader. It supports RSS, Atom, RDF formats. It monitors feeds in the background, and alerts you when there is a new entry in the feed. There is a built-in browser to view feeds. Windows

Feedreader - a freeware Windows application that reads and displays Internet newsfeeds aka RSS feeds based on XML

FeedThing - a syndicated news reader which makes the job of tracking your favourite websites a joy. Fast - No .NET runtime, FeedThing is small and quick, and will only get quicker. Versatile - Reads all flavours of RSS as well as Atom. Determined - If it looks like a feed and smells like a feed, FeedThing will read it, regardless of any errors it encounters. Windows

FeedTray - Very simple to use application for monitoring RSS News Feeds. An unobtrusive icon sits in the Windows tray, providing direct access to the news articles through icon's menu. New articles are easily separated at a glance from articles that have been read, an the articles can be optionally grouped by the feed's categories. Completely functional for any RSS2 News Feed. Windows 2000/XP, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

firstobject News Reader - the freeware edition for Windows provides simple and convenient access to XML resources on the web such as RSS feeds, blogs, and XML web services. It utilizes negligible CPU and is fully multi-threaded to provide an interface with no waits

Fizzle - an integrated RSS/Atom news reader for Firefox. Platform: XUL/Firefox Ext

FM Radio (FMR) - a desktop application that enhances the Radio experience by integrating 3 applications: news aggregator, blog publishing tool, and web browser into a single, easy-to-use, unified experience

Fuzzy Duck RSS Reader - a small application to read RSS2 formatted news feeds. Syndicates as many feeds as you want from the feed manager

glucose - RSS reader for Windows

GoReader - a free program that you download and install on your computer. Once the program is installed, you can use it to access news feeds from news Web sites, weblogs and other online sites that offer RSS feeds

Got All Media - Everything you need for your media. PVR, DVD, movies, music, photos, Internet radio, media, Web browser, and RSS reader. Design menus and custom media management modules. Control everything with your remote using intuitive interface. Windows 2000/XP

GreatNews: The Intelligent RSS Reader - Supports RSS 0.91, 1.0, 2.0, Atom 0.30. Requires Windows

Guru News Ticker - Displays the latest world headlines as scroll text on your desktop, inside your Windows taskbar or inside Microsoft Internet Explorer

Habari Xenu - a News Aggregator that is built on top of the powerful Mozilla web platform

Headline Viewer - a Windows application that lets you see news headlines from a configurable list of Headline Providers (news sources and weblogs)

Hot Zoup - a news feed reader that supports RSS, ATOM and COMMENT-API. Designed for Windows XP and the .NET Framework 1.1.

HoverNews - a free standalone news grabbing application that is based off of the plug-in of the same name for HoverDesk. Windows

InfoletNews - developed to put the user in charge of their Business Intelligence and Knowledge management. Automatically finds news and information. Unique search and RSS options

infoRSS - a lightweight, non intrusive, RSS, ATOM, NNTP and HTML headlines reader for Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape and thunderbird, designed by Didier Ernotte. The extension installs a small icon (looks like an earth) in the status bar. The headlines are displayed in the beside this icon in the status bar or in a separate bar (top or bottom of the screen). The interface is very simple to use: drag and drop new url of feed onto the extension icon to add a new feed or click on the extension icon to select a specific feed to read. The feeds can be grouped to allow multi feed fetch and filter can be used to limit the number of headlines. Windows NT/2000/XP, Firefox 1.0

InfoSnorkel - a Windows application that makes it easy to create customized, up-to-date, personal news pages that contain information from many different sources

intraVnews - an add-in for Microsoft Outlook that turns your favorite email application into an advanced RSS news reader and aggregator. Requires Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 or higher. Operating Systems: Microsoft? Windows? 98 SE or higher. Microsoft? Outlook? versions: 2002/XP (10.0), 2003 (11.0)

iSpace Desktop - an integrated PIM system for Windows, it includes: Blog Reader, Contacts, Calendar, Content, Documents, Multi-page internet browser

it-reader - German-language RSS reader for Windows

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K-Meleon - a fast and customizable web browser that can be used instead of Internet Explorer on Windows. Powered by the same Gecko engine as the Firefox and Mozilla browsers, K-Meleon provides users with a secure browsing experience. Based on the Mozilla 1.7.12 codebase, 0.9.12 is a standard 0.9 build with improvements concerning security. New features include a new look with Phoenity skin, dozen of new options to control and enhance your browsing experience, direct access to most browser options, new and improved privacy and security features including a new Privacy plugin, and an RSS newsfeed reader

Klipfolio - A Windows based desktop news reader. Reads simple XML files that point to RSS feeds

KolayBAR - an IE toolbar program with built-in RSS reader

Koma-Mail - a simple, portable email client, that can be run standalone from a USB drive. It allows you to send and receive email from your POP3/IMAP account. The program supports SSL and APOP and contains options to block scripts, ActiveX and HTML content for increased security. It also includes a basic spam filter option and can be used with multiple accounts and multiple users. Koma-Mail can import/export email messages and contacts, maintains an encrypted database and even includes a simple RSS feed reader. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

Law.com NewsPoint RSS reader - collects updates from user-selected sites and displays headlines and links to all recently-posted content on a single, consolidated browser page. Law.com NewsPoint comes pre-loaded with content from Law.com's industry-leading legal news feeds, as well as feeds from the Law.com Blog Network. Users can add or remove content associated with any Web source that offers RSS feeds

LogMeister - log viewer provides a lightweight yet powerful solution to centralized log analysis and monitoring. Captures data from disparate sources including local and remote Event Logs, Text Logs and RSS feeds

Lycos-Qumana RSS Reader - an easy-to-read, easy-to-use organizer for all your favorite RSS feeds. Complete integration with Firefox 1.5 and IE web browsers. View RSS feeds within the browser. Feeds presented in easy-to-read format. One-click feed gathering via web browser tool bar. Navigate via keyboard shortcuts. Search feeds from the navigation bar

Maxthon Internet Browser - a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface. It is based on the Internet Explorer browser engine which means that what works in the IE browser will work the same in Maxthon tabbed browser but with many additional efficient features like an RSS reader

MCE RSS Reader - lets you read newsitems from any RSS or RDF feed, on your Media Center TV. MCE RSS Reader consists of 2 parts: a regular Windows XP application which you can use to configure MCE RSS Reader, and which is responsible for refreshing the contents the feeds you defined and an add-in for the Media Center application which you can use to read newsitems within MCE

MedReader - an RSS/ATOM reader, Medical News aggregator and Podcast client built specifically for the Medical & Healthcare Industry. This tool resides on your desktop and persistently searches for the most relevant information catering to your specialty. This tool is easy to use, saves you a large amount of search time, and best of all, it is FREE!

MesNews - a newsreader. It is a freeware developed in the Delphi 7 language. It works on all version of Windows (95, 98, NT, on 2000 and XP)

mNewsCenter - provides the opportunity to quickly and conveniently read blogs, listen to and/or view podcasts, or view any other news site that supports the increasing popular RSS protocol. Having been designed for Windows XP Media Center 2005, mNewsCenter is also able to be enjoyed on your TV from the comfort of your sofa. In addition, mNewsCenter provides a very intuitive and easy-to-use interface which is fully controllable with any media center remote control

Multi-Browser XP - Tabbed-MDI Browser based on Windows XP/SP2 Security. Has five selectable GUI Themes (Office 2003 Theme included). RSS Reader/Writer. Searchable Bookmark Archive with export and import options. Playing and viewing Windows Media files side by side. Automatic e-mail checking. Tool to submit multiple web search at once. Window layouts can be stored and reloaded

My RSS Toolbar - a free handy RSS reading toolbar for Internet Explorer. Displays news and updates from than 100 web-sites using RSS technology. Using My RSS Toolbar is easy: just select category and toolbar will automatically download and then display latest news items from news and blogs

My Yahoo! Ticker - makes it easy to track your favorite information, by bringing the news and opinions you've subscribed to in My Yahoo! directly to your desktop as they're published. Choose from over 250,000 RSS feeds covering virtually everything on the Web. Use your existing My Yahoo! settings to track your stocks, news, and weather. Search the Web using Yahoo! Search directly from your desktop

myFavorites - now includes an easy-to-use RSS Feed reader ? browse, collect and annotate content from any RSS feeds as easily as you can with any other web document. myFavorites installs seamlessly as an Internet Explorer add-on, and is available in a free, fully-functional 30-day trial version with on-line registration

MyFeedReader - a powerful yet lightweight newsfeed aggregator that supports all RSS and ATOM formats. Windows 95, 98 and XP versions

Net Newz - a free RSS/RDF/ATOM newsreader which differs form others by its small interface

News Central - a "news aggregator" that runs as an icon in your system tray. It allows you to subscribe to various syndicated news feeds (such as web logs, news sites, etc.) and have news from these sites be delivered right onto your desktop

News desktop scrolling bar (rss\xml) Pro v2.0 - See the tv news titles on your desktop with a very small text scrolling bar. You can select rss/xml files from any site you want. When you click a title an Internet Explorer window will pop up and you will read the full article and see images

News Interceptor - allows you to be instantly notified when your favorite Web sites emit news of interest. You select your favorite sites from a list of more than 750 sites (this list increases every week) classified into many different categories like Business, Computers, Entertainment, Music, Sports and more. When a news is emitted, a window displays the title and you can, with a simple mouse click, read the entire news in your Web browser. News Interceptor runs in the System Tray and only requires an Internet connection

NewsAloud - personal news agent from NextUp.com finds the stories you want, then reads them aloud in a natural, human sounding voice. Now supports RSS feeds

NewsBee - German-language RSS reader for Windows

NewsBliss - "truly the next generation in Media RSS Streamers. It accesses rich content from Web sites and displays it directly on your PC seamlessly and plays videos or podcasts with only one-click! It is an online, real-time reader of RSS files supplied by your Web site, or a mix of internal and external sites. These files can be textual, images, podcasts or internet videos"

NewsBox - a unique news page that offers access to multiple news sources in German and English. Each source is configurable and there is support for RSS / RDF news feeds and the Mozilla / Netscape Sidebar

NewsFox - An RSS/Atom News Reader for Firefox

NewsGator - a "news aggregator" that 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. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2000 or later, and Windows 98 or later

NewsPiper - an RSS/Web news reader and news ticker in one environment. This program can show news from different sources: Web-pages (like cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.) or RSS news feeds. Retrived news are shown in usual three-panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) and in a special news ticker bar (News Bar) placed at the top of your desktop. Windows

NewsPoint - a premium RSS news-reader brought to you by the The Guardian

Newsplorer -a fully skinnable news reader application that will integrate perfectly with your desktop. It supports all major news syndication formats available today and it's completly free! It will keep you closer to the fast-paced world we live in by delivering directly to your desktop the news as they unfold. Not only Newsplorer is free, it is also spyware/adware free

NewsRaider - an application for Windows that allows any news, reviews, or magazine site to have its articles "raided" and converted into a single rolling news service. NewsRaider automatically downloads and distills CNN.com, BBC News, The Guardian, Reuters, The Independent, The Register, Hollywood.com, Rolling Stone, PC Gamer, New Musical Express, The Economist, and Truth Out. Requires Windows 98/Me/NT/XP

NewsSeeker - NewsSeeker™ is a great way to read, download and manage your RSS and ATOM news feeds on your Windows desktop. It is an RSS/Atom reader, news aggregator, browser and blogging client. which provides access to news content from various sources. The easy to use interface, based on the Office 2007 user interface, makes it simple to keep up to date with the latest information and news

NewzCrawler - a web news reader & browser which provides access to the news content from different sources. Windows

Newz Tuel - a powerful RSS reader for Windows with some unique features

Newzie - more than a simple news aggregator. It offers different ways of monitoring things; it presents retrieved content in different shapes; it enables you to reach desired content fast. And all these interactions happen thru an exclusive user interface that you haven't tasted yet in any other software application

NewzSpider - a news aggregator that runs on your Windows 98/2000/XP computer and downloads headers from your favorite news sites and blogs. It is flexible and very easy to use. NewzSpider supports ALL RSS standarts (0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0)

Nutshell - an application designed to retrieve web content via the RSS format. With Nutshell, you can receive content from your favorite news, entertainment, and weblog sites - whenever they are updated. Windows 98/2000/XP supported

NY Times Reader - A stylish New York Times RSS reader featuring multiple feeds, news search, customizable update interval, audible update confirmation, recent feeds list, page turner, interface customizations and more. Requires Windows 2000/XP, Yahoo Widget Engine (Konfabulator)

Omea Pro - Bring all your information together. That means your email, contacts, documents, files, blogs, transcripts, newsgroups, RSS feeds, pics, webpage bookmarks, tasks, and instant messages are all in the same place, so you don’t need to look through a slew of programs and applications anymore

Onfolio - a PC application for reading RSS news feeds, collecting and organizing online content and publishing to email, weblogs and web sites. Requires Windows XP, 2000 or 2003

Online News Screensaver - a unique and informative screensaver tool that delivers the latest news right to the screen of your computer. If you have a direct Internet access, the screensaver will keep bringing you the news reports continuously. Minimum system requirements: 400MHz, RAM 32Mb, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, direct Internet connection

Optimal Desktop - offers a tabbed interface and integrates the functions of an RSS Reader/Web Browser/File Explorer/XML editor into one application.?You can also search for your RSS headlines and RSS folders?in Optimal Desktop. Requires Windows 95b, 98SE, Windows Me, Win2kSP1, NT4SP3, WinXP

Orbiscope Observer - Keep track of products prices. Watch for new documents. Track change in RSS feed. View changes highlighted. Watch for specifics word to appear. Requires Windows XP/2000/NT/Me/98

Personal Message Broker - a server program that monitors ISDN lines, email, news groups, blogs, and news feeds (RSS). Windows 2000, XP

Personal Stock Streamer - portfolio management software with a built-in RSS reader. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003

Phalanx Security Response Ticker - an Explorer Bar for Internet Explorer. It provides a collection of RSS feeds on virus threats and vulnerabilities for all IT fields. Users are also able to read self-defined XML formatted feeds. In German. Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Internet Explorer 5.5

Popuload - you can set Popuload to appear and disappear simultaneously with your computer’s loading bar. So while waiting to Download, Copy or Print you can read snippets of News, the latest Sports Score, Celebrity Gossip or news feeds of your choice. Or, simply access Popuload anytime directly from your desktop

Portable Thunderbird - the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. It has all the same great features as regular Thunderbird including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more

Qlock - designed to be a quick, stylish, simple yet powerful world clock for your desktop. Choose locations from over 500 cities Worldwide. Multiple, dockable Clock faces. Custom Skins in multiple sizes. Powerful customizable Alarms. RSS & Atom feed reader

Royal - Read posts on RSS feeds. This program checks on startup and, if you like, periodically for new posts on RSS 0.91/0.92/1.0/2.0/Atom feeds

RSS Bandit - a free community based developed tool. Prerequisite is to have .NET 1.0 or 1.1 installed

RSS Captor - a powerful, highly configurable yet easy-to-use RSS client. Windows (No need to download the .NET package). Single license costs US $19.95

RSS Feed Reader - a most powerful product for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts

The RSS Feeds Toolbar for Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0 - The RSS Toolbar makes it easier to stay up to date. Instead of browsing your 10 favorite news sites 10 times a day you can just add the news sites RSS feeds to the toolbar and have the latest news displayed at the top of the Internet Explorer all the time

RSS Magnet Reader - allows you to manage web feeds, read headlines, mark articles for follow-up, blog them and more. It comes with a library of popular feeds that you can use, and you can add your own feeds or import them from an OPML file. The program supports keyword watches, that allow you to automatically sort out news items that match your interest, as well as integration with Feedster, Flickr and other popular RSS services. The interface is easy to use and offers a choice of different display styles and layouts

RSS Ole! - a very simple RSS newsreader. There are more complex ones out there with more features, but RSS Ole! is a very easy to use news aggregator. The download weighs in at under 3Mb and requires the Microsoft .NET framework

RSS Popper - an RSS/ATOM/RDF news aggregator that delivers news to Outlook

RSS Screensaver - a screensaver that lets you select and validate an RSS feed, and select a directory for background images. The Screensaver loops through the list of RSS items and shows the contents of the feed in the right hand side

RSS2Exchange - allows you to publish your very own industry specific news pages directly into MS Exchange Public Folders. For Windows and Linux

RssExplorer - an Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you easily find RSS feeds and subscribe to them using your favorite news aggregator/headline viewer

RssFeedEater - an RSS Reader (aka News Aggregator) for Windows. It can gather information from sites that offer syndicated contents (RSS or ATOM) and presents them in a powerful hierarchical interface

RSSMate - a free compact RSS news and weblog reader. The design philosophy behind RSSMate is for simplicity and compactness, and unlike many RSS readers, does not attempt to emulate features of a web browser. For Win9x, Win2000 & WinXP

RSSMore - an aggregator screensaver that lets you subscribe to any number of RSS/XML feeds and view them in your screensaver. You can also specify a folder (including its sub folders) to provide background images. The RSSMore screensaver loops through the list of feeds and shows the items and their contents in transparent text boxes over your background images

RSSRadio - an easy to use Podcast client (iPodder) for Windows

RssReader - free RSS reader is able to display any RSS news feeds (XML)(Windows)

ScoopScanner - an RSS/Atom reader (or aggregator) that goes beyond what any other reader you have seen before has to offer. ScoopScanner enables you to get a grip on your internet news sources which will be bundled like a book that you may take from one PC to the next. You can read your daily news on the train, at work, wherever there's a PC available. You open your "book" and get the full read state you left when you closed it

Search Automator - a combination search engine/Internet browser software framework, which improves relevant search results by minimizing wasted time and maximizing successful search queries. A key function of Search Automator is its ability to allow users to automatically submit research queries once and get all of the most relevant internet resource returns from Google to e-Bay (nearly 200 resources in all, including RSS and BLOGS), and perform advanced filters with only a single click. Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Searchmaze - a customizable search engine toolbar, like having Google and Yahoo toolbar rolled into one, instant access to search results from over 150 top sites in more than 20 categories of searchable resources, including an automatic personal search engine. Version 2.7 offers more compact layout and new RSS functions

SharpReader - a .NET 3-pane RSS Aggregator. Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc

SMPS ToolBar - Integrated RSS news reader. Integrated Google search box. Integrated SpyWare removal tool. Integrated PopUp blocker. One click button turns the toolbar on/off. Full customer configuration. Easy privacy cleaner. Easy button add/removal. Easy online toolbar update. Easy toolbar uninstall. Privacy protected. No data collected

Snarfer - delivers a new approach to RSS aggregation focusing on speed, efficiency and ease of use. Snarfer targets the fast growing RSS marketplace providing a logical way to organize, view and manage RSS feeds and other content. The company was founded in December 2004 and includes a small team of software industry veterans who have a track record in developing and delivering powerful applications that deliver high value to end users

Speed RSS Feed Reader - a powerful, new RSS Feed Reader that provides an interactive interface and easy to use controls to bring an easy management and simple access to your RSS feeds, podcasts and ATOM feeds

Surfpack Startpage - a 32-bit Windows application and runs under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows XP

SYFACiL - a powerful online tool, RSS reader, bookmark manager, file upload management, all browsers supported. IE Toolbar for easy collecting data, automatic report, mail sharing, built in search engine... and much more. Free and professionnal GUI. Easy and intuitive to use like mail reader

Syndirella - a desktop information aggregator - a program which provides a comfortable environment for reading the information coming from multiple sources, or feeds

Tablane browser - offers not only tabs which can be displayed in a variety of positions around the main browser window, but also lanes whereby an array of Web sites can be viewed within a single window. This makes multiple browser window clutter a thing of the past. Another unique feature is the Collection, whereby groups of bookmarks or favorites are made extremely easy to manage and share, with the Collections saved in the RSS XML format

TinyRss - a very small but powerful RSS reader that works inside of the Internet Explorer

ToolButton Deskbar -contains an RSS Reader, desktop search bar and an automatic web form filler

Tristana - an always free content reader which allows you to easily browse, organize and share syndicated news, articles, weblogs and other content pulled from the web onto your PC. Windows 98, 2000, XP, Me

TVTonic - allows you to subscribe to most video podcasts on the web. Download RSS video enclosures in the background

Twins WebNews - a news reader that allows you to read RSS and ATOM webfeeds. Various Sort and Filter options help you find the items you want, and filter out those you don't want

URLBase 6 - a powerful and easy to use bookmark manager. It provides a wide range of functionality, aimed to give you full control over your favourites and bookmarks, whether you?re a novice or an expert. you can store all your bookmarks and RSS feeds in one central database. You can import from and export to all major browsers in a few easy steps. Powerful management functionality allows you to validate links and scan the database for duplicates, keeping your bookmarks accurate and up to date. Flexible and customizable XHTML export enables you to publicize your bookmarks on the Internet. The user interface is highly customizable and can be adjusted to your personal preferences. Windows

Videora 1.0 - the first version of a new personal video downloading program. Utilizing BitTorrent peer to peer technology and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds, Videora automatically and intelligently finds and downloads video you want to watch. With easy to use features like Want Lists and Season Tickets you will be able to watch your favorite video, no matter where you are in the world. All you need to get started is a broadband internet connection and Windows

Vox Lite - allows you to keep up-to-date with all your favourite sources of information that support the RSS protocol. Windows

Wallpaper Cycler - an easy to use, yet powerful desktop wallpaper manager. You can change the wallpaper with a specific delay and/or at specific times. Manage wallpapers in multi-level categories. Make creative layouts for your wallpapers. Add calendars, quotes, notes, RSS news headlines, webcams, effects and more to your desktop. Supports more than 20 file formats. Windows

WARR - a fully function RSS Reader written in VB. It has headline management managed by a database, two search options and automatic maintenence. Documentation is also available. It is already fully functional and complete

WebSite-Watcher - allows you to monitor your favorite websites for updates and changes with a minimum of time and online costs. It also monitors and converts RSS feeds to a readable format

Wildgrape NewsDesk -a fast, convenient, and easy to use RSS headline reader for Windows. NewsDesk reads headlines from thousands of sources, including popular websites and weblogs. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (or .NET Framework 1.0 with Service Pack 2)

Winamp 5.54 - now includes SHOUTcast Wire - A Media RSS Browser and Subscription Service

WinRSS - a complete and easy system for the reception of syndicated news available in the net. News displayed by WinRSS are frequently called syndicated news, and they come from newspapers, magazines, web portals, weblogs and many more media. WinRSS supports news in the most popular formats available: Atom, RSS, RDF and XML

WorldFlash Gold - a personal news and information agent. Customize WorldFlash and view information that is relevant to your needs; add and manage RSS headline sources, choose from a list of global news and industry specific sources; set up personal breaking news alerts for news, stocks, sports scores, email, weather and more

Yoono - a user friendly RSS reader/builder integrated into a social bookmarking application based on browser bookmarks (no tags needed). It also includes a search engine and web monitoring and sharing functions

Zeemo - an RSS reader and Internet forum. You can subscribe to several newsfeeds but, unlike other RSS readers, you can also search in a huge and expanding database of RSS items. Therefore, Zeemo RSS is a search engine for RSS items. With Zeemo RSS the news items will be downloaded from the server but will never be stored on your computer to keep the required harddisk space low. Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server

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