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What is Feedreader?

Contributed by on Dec 08, 2001 - 03:45 AM

You can choose from a list of providers or put your favorite webpages xml feed url in the program and be trolling headlines in no time.




You can find Feedreader from www.feedreader.com




Feedreader features


  • Displays RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92 1.00 (including Dublin core and Slashback extensions) feeds.


  • Supports tags for background multimedia files download


  • Has 10.am, NewsIsFree, Userland, Groksoup, Moreover channels builtin


  • Ideal for mobile networking (GPRS) because of low bandwidth usage and little byte transfer (no graphics).


  • Possibility to add your own custom channel


  • Compact size: download only 650kB


  • Imports RSS headlines from leading syndicators


  • If news text is available, it will be showed in minibrowser


  • Caches headlines for offline viewing


  • Nice and clean interface


  • Allows search cached newsfeed's headlines or topics for a phrase


  • Possibility to send article to a friend by email


  • Multilanguage support


  • Feed alerts: Feedreader sits on your taskbar and checks for new messages in background. If any of feeds is updated, small message will appear on taskbar.




    Requirements


    Windows 95 or newer


    Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer
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