Tag: NEWSREADER

Looking to catch up on top news items in a flash? Head over to Spreed:News, and have articles fed to you in easy-to-digest little chunks. For now, you're limited to reading the feeds Spreed provides. Fear not, most of your favorites are likely included in the list: BoingBoing, CNet, GigaOm, Slashdot, TUAW, and yes, even Downloadsquad are available. Sign up for an account and select your ...

Newsified is a simple, but brilliant, idea. Take your favorite social news sites, the ones you normally read on the web or through RSS, and lay them out like ... a newspaper. It's an old-school approach that actually proves really useful when it comes to deep sites like Metafilter and Digg. You only see a small percentage of the popular content on the front pages of these sites, but Newsified ...

Yesterday BradSoft announced the second beta of FeedDemon 2.8, the popular desktop newsreader for Windows. Bugfix work continues, and the user interface has been streamlined - which developer Nick Bradbury refers to as "toolbutton slaughter." The new sharing and tagging icons caused some overcrowding, but users who still want the old icons displayed can customize the settings under options ...

Headline is a distinctive-looking newsreader for OS X that offers a different reading experience than you might be used to from popular RSS apps like NetNewsWire or Newsfire. To maintain a small desktop footprint, Headline lists stories in a compact one-column layout that can be quickly sorted using a dropdown. It displays the full stories using a slick, Quick-Look-like effect, taking advantage ...

Are you bored of reading news sites that all look the same, or staring at rows and rows of headlines in your RSS reader? MSNBC has something you might want to see. The new Spectra Visual Newsreader grabs MSNBC stories, color-coded by category, and sends them flying around your screen like index cards in a wind tunnel. Maybe you don't want to get your news this way all the time, but it's fun to ...

When popular Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire started offering the full version of its software for free, there was plenty of speculation that its competitors would follow suit. Not too surprisingly, NewsFire, another top player in the OS X newsreader market, is now free too. Its features are competitive with those offered by NetNewsWire, and it's UI is arguably the best out there. Despite having a ...

Any child of the 80's will recall Max Headroom, the stuttering talking head that made fun of movie stars and politicians, as a pop-culture hallmark of the decade. Of course, Max Headroom is an entirely forgettable character, so most children of the 90's and later just say "huh?" when you mention his name. But for all you Headroom fans, and for those of us who just like our computers to behave ...

If you're like us, you probably spend a significant portion of your day with Google Reader or your favorite RSS reader open. But sometimes it's nice to see pages in their original context. For example, if you want to see comments other readers have left on a blog entry, there's pretty much no way to do that with most feed readers. That's where fav.or.it comes in. The web service is still ...

On the post where you told us what RSS reader you liked and why, there is a great newsreader that I was a little curious if anyone would mention but no one did. NewsIsFree.com is a site that offers excellent feed reading and aggregation for free. I was impressed with the amount of features and how usable this site is. Since I like to stick with something quick and dirty, this site is a bit too ...

Nowsy is feed reader that lets you add an unlimited number of feeds as panes on a personalized home page-style page. It has a clean, uncluttered interface but otherwise does little that will blow anyone away or make them switch from Netvibes or Google Personalized Homepage. For newshounds, however, it does have once nice feature: You can search among your feed items. Typing in a search term will ...

For all you OSX users out there using NetNewsWire: I've found a repository of tips, scripts and additional styles - and it's been right under our noses at Ranchero's resources page. They actually have an RSS feed set up, with individual feeds available for updates on each category of resources. It's a pretty nice setup, and there's a ton of stuff here I've never seen before. Sending feeds from ...