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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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 Posted - 21 March 2004 : 09:32:32
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I've been looking for a good, freeware RSS reader, but so far only Pluck (http://www.pluck.com) looks and works nice enough, with the problems that it runs inside IE and doesn't seem to notify about new feeds. The best part is that it has several feeds added when you install it, so you won't have to go looking everywhere.
Which reader do you use, and what would you say are the best features? |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 21 March 2004 : 16:03:00
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| I use FeedReader, but really only as an 'Recent Posts' reminder so I don't have to be constantly on the forum itself |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 22 March 2004 : 03:43:16
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| I looked at feedreader.com before they took most of the site down, and it said version 2.6 was available, but I haven't been able to find anything but 2.5 |
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Bookie
Average Member
USA
856 Posts |
Posted - 24 April 2004 : 13:03:26
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| My.yahoo.com has an RSS feed module (beta) I just found. I guess that's only useful if you have a my.yahoo page setup. |
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Jeepaholic
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USA
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Mexico
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 24 April 2004 : 22:37:05
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Originally posted by Jeepaholic
I use this one:
http://www.sharpreader.net
It's basic, but gets the job done.
Use that one myself, basic yeah, but like you said it does get the job done. |
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Jeepaholic
Average Member
USA
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 26 April 2004 : 03:54:09
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| Why do you need the .Net framework to get these things running? Since I don't use anything .Net related, I haven't installed it on this computer, and frankly, I'm not planning on it unless I really have to install software that requires it. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 26 April 2004 : 08:35:47
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| Because they're .NET applications :) .NET isn't limited to "web based" apps only. |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 26 April 2004 : 11:49:02
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| If I was still looking at an RSS reader I'd try to find one that doesn't require additional software to be installed, but since I've found it to be easier to just use Google news, I'm not going to bother :) |
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Jeepaholic
Average Member
USA
697 Posts |
Posted - 26 April 2004 : 12:52:01
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After playing with it for a while, RSS Reader does have some quirks...sometimes I like it...sometimes now. Hmmm. Tough call.
As for .NET, if you're running XP or beyond - I believe it's built in. All future MS O/S's will be based on it, as well. Just in case you weren't aware...
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Astralis
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 21 September 2004 : 00:58:10
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This is an update to the topic.
http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=54775
Feedreader is updated to 2.7 and is very nice. Sharpreader is similar to Feedreader. From my research, these two seem to be at the top of the freeware class, IMHO. I prefer Feedreader 2.7 so far. |
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