Great News -- RSS Feed Reading Made Easy
Posted on Thursday, February 02, 2006 at 8:55 PM by Randall
While browsers are beginning to handle RSS feed reading, their services are fairly basic. With FireFox, for example, I never saw the point of looking at the RSS feed rather than just going to the web site. Then my wife, a news junkie, discovered Great News, a free program designed for reading RSS feeds and displaying them in a nicely formatted manner. As the web site says, "GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across rss feeds, optimized for fast reading. So you can skim through pages in seconds, and pick interesting ones to dig in." This basic statement, while accurate, does not do justice to Great News.
Great News can highlight news items you are interested in based on rules you create. It can save news items so you can read them offline. It supports all major RSS feed formats, including RSS 0.9x, 1.0(rdf), 2.0, Atom 0.30 and 1.0 -- and popular extensions like dublin core, content:encoding etc. It is integrated with Bloglines.com. It supports Unicode and has a full texrt search. It can import and export the list of feeds you read so that you can back them up or move them from system to system.
While I don't yet use Great News as much as my wife does, the program has made a believer out of me. It's updated every 4 to 6 weeks with bug fixes and new features, which is a nice bonus.
Rating: 5 Stars
Operating System: Windows 2000 or XP
License:
Freeware
Price: Free
Version Reviewed: 1.0 Build 360
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