RSS readers allow users to view information contained in rss feeds in a specific location in an intuitive way.

Straw Straw is a desktop news aggregator for Gnome environment. A faster easier way to read RSS news feeds and blogs.

Bottom Feeder BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom) written in VisualWorks Smalltalk. BottomFeeder runs on x86 Linux (also FreeBSD), PowerPC linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X, AIX, SGI Irix, Compaq UNIX, HP-UX, and Solaris.

Liferea an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader. It is a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a number of different feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS, and OPML.

Syndigator Syndigator is an RSS feed reader based on Gtk2 and is targeted primarily at those people using Linux (since this is the platform that the developers are using).

Composite It's a simple app. It has a page where you enter feeds, and a page where it displays the aggregated content.

Eclipse RSS Reader The Eclipse RSS Reader allows the user to create RSS channels, connected to on-line RSS feeds, and view the items they contain in several workbench views. Each channel can be updated from its source at regular intervals.

K.R.S.S. K.R.S.S. is a Linux-based application that downloads Rich Site Summary feeds and displays them on your desktop, in HTML. It quickly downloads any number of pre-selected RSS feeds that you have chosen, and displays them when and how you want in a ticker-tape fashion.

Rol Rol is a simple application for reading RSS or RDF feeds such as those produced by many news sites or weblogs. It is not intended to do anything more than display the headlines and allow you to choose which to read in your web browser.

Mozilla Thunderbird Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.

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RSS readers or news aggregators allow users to view content from specified sources (RSS feeds). The information is automatically updated and displays the newer information on top.

SurfPack Surfpack Startpage can feature search tools, horoscopes, current weather conditions, LiveJournal diaries, humor, web modules and other dynamically updated content.

FeedDemon FeedDemon enables you to quickly read and gather information from hundreds of web sites - without having to visit them. Don't waste any more time checking your favorite web sites for updates. Instead, use FeedDemon and make them come to you.

Pluck retrieves the latest information from your favorite web sites and delivers it directly to your browser; the way email is delivered to your inbox. From within Internet Explorer you can quickly scan, sort and scroll through headline and article summaries in one pane, viewing the corresponding web page in the other pane.

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

SharpReader SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows.

FeedReader Feedreader is a lightweight open-source aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats.

intraVnews intraVnews is a state of the art news aggregator that turns Microsoft Outlook into a news reader. With intraVnews you can subscribe to any of 1000's of syndicated feeds from personal weblogs (Blogs) to mainstream news sources to specialist publications.

RSSReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window.

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NewzCrawler Stay in touch with all breaking news around the world, save your time and money using our NewzCrawler - the leader in desktop information tools!

QM Nooze QM nooze is a very simple RDF/RSS news feed reader for Windows. It will run under Win9x, WinNT, WinME, Win2K and WinXP. This program will navigate to any website and translate the Resource Description Framework (RDF) Site Summary (RSS) into an easy-to-read menu that automatically updates every 10 minutes

Blog Navigator Blog Navigator is a new program that 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.

Abilon Abilon displays headlines from RSS (Rich Site Summary - Really Simple Syndication) Channels in an easy to read format. It is small (about 500 kb), fast, and free. Adding new channels is as simple as right-clicking and entering the address of the feed.

ActiveRefresh ActiveRefresh is a web news monitor which will save you browsing time by monitoring information sources, gathering all of the information that you regularly access and presenting it in comfortable and adjustable way.

BlogExpress BlogExpress is a full-featured application for content syndication. BlogExpress supports all RSS versions and ATOM. It can read contents from any Weblogs (a.k.a., blog) and any Websites that provide XML files for content syndication (Generally, a file with .rss, .rdf, or .xml extension.

EffNews The EffNews RSS Reader is a minimalist RSS reader for Windows.

InfoSnorkel An RSS reader that handles more than 10,000 ready-to-import sources of news using RSS content syndication. Just pick the sources from InfoSnorkel's import tool.

NewzSpider NewzSpider is a news aggregator that runs on your computer and downloads headers from your favorite news sites and blogs. It is flexible and very easy to use. NewzSpider supports ALL RSS standards (0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0) as well as the new ATOM format.

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RSS Captor Pro a powerful, highly configurable yet easy-to-use RSS client. We have designed it especially to help you deal with your growing volume of news as quickly and efficiently as possible. RSS Captor is RSS client you need!

Sauce Reader Sauce Reader is an easy to use, innovative and full-featured feed reader.

Syndirella A desktop information aggregator - a program which provides a comfortable environment for reading the information coming from multiple sources, or feeds. The most common uses for Syndirella are reading news sites and weblogs.

Tristana
Tristana uses RSS and Atom which are standard XML formats for instantly receiving syndicated content over the Internet. RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary" or even "Really Stops Spam", depending on who you talk to. Atom is a widely recognized open-source XML format for content syndication. Basically both are really just highly efficient standardized formats for reading, managing and sharing timely information across the web.

RSS readers allow users to view information contained in rss feeds in a specific location in an intuitive way.

NewsMac NewsMac 3.1 now lets you browse the headlines of your favorite channels direct from the Mac OS X Dock - perfect for checking the latest news headlines without the boss noticing.

Pheeder Pheeder is an extensible Macintosh desktop news and XML reader.

NetNewswire An easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. Its familiar three-paned interface—similar to Apple Mail and Outlook Express—can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs.

BlogMatrix Jager Jäger is not a traditional "three-panel" Weblog Reader: it's a "One Panel" reader. It does not attempt to load web pages into it's own reader (generally styled around Microsoft's Outlook's look & feel). Instead, unread weblog entries are listed in the Jäger reader. Double clicking on an entry (or a weblog) displays the entry in its original context in your browser.

Pears Pears is a three-pane newsfeed (RSS/RDF and Atom) aggregator which caches downloaded feeds for offline use. It has a clean, uncluttered interface, it's easy to use and works on Windows, Linux and MacOSX.

Pineapple Pineapple is a web site news aggregator for Mac OS X. Pineapple fetches the headlines from web sites that syndicate their content (via RSS - a standard for distributing news), sorts out the articles you haven't read and presents them to you in an easy-to-browse format.

Safari RSS Scan all the latest news, information and articles from thousands of your favorite major news organizations, community web sites and personal weblogs in one simple-to-read, searchable article list using Safari RSS.

Shrook A next-generation news reader that offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. Some aren't available on any platform. It supports all versions of RSS, as well as the current draft of Atom

Mozilla Thunderbird Simple to use, powerful, and customizable, Thunderbird is a full-featured email application. Thunderbird supports IMAP and POP mail protocols, as well as HTML mail formatting. Easily import your existing email accounts and messages. Built-in RSS capabilities, powerful quick search, spell check as you type, global inbox, deleting attachments and advanced message filtering round out Thunderbird's modern feature set.

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RSS Creation Software

RSS Feed creation software for webmasters or content providers that create rss feeds that comply with rss specifications.

FeedForAll easy to use desktop application that allows users to create and edit rss feeds.

RSS Creation Software
software for webmasters or content providers that create rss feeds that comply with rss specifications.

RSS Readers for Windows
software for viewing RSS feeds from specified sources (RSS feeds).

RSS Readers for MAC
software for viewing RSS feeds from specified sources (RSS feeds).

RSS Readers for Linux
software for viewing RSS feeds from specified sources (RSS feeds).

RSS Readers for Handhelds
handheld software for viewing rss feeds from specified services.

Browser Based RSS Newsreaders
addon software allow users to view rss feeds in their Internet browsers

RSS Parsers
software development tools designed to parse files and create an RSS feed

Blogging Software
software for blog creation

RSS to Email
software allows users to receive and read rss feeds in your email client.

RSS News Aggregators
software that compiles news from multiple sources in a single location

RSS Scripts
collection of RSS scripts for feed management.