Feed Reader and Downlo Software for Windows

FastTrack News
$29 - FastTrackSoft

FastTrackNews is a portable usenet client and RSS feed reader, Blog client and news aggregator.

The program reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check mass media websites for updates and can be used as news and blog browser. Once subscribed to a feed, the software is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update.

You can easily organize rss and nntp news channels in a fully customizable tree structure and browse actual news articles using built-in or external webbrowser.

FastTrack News uses a web feed to retrieve syndicated news given in XML-based formats (Atom, RSS, etc.), rapidly downloads news articles from various web sources in background and displays them in comfortable customizable views.

The program supports password protected feeds, has the ability to expire news items so they get deleted after a certain amount of days. The RSS content is sometimes described as being "pulled" to the subscriber, as opposed to "pushed" with mailing list or Internet Messaging. Unlike recipients of some "pushed" information, the RSS Reader user can easily unsubscribe from a feed.

FastTrack News is simple and easy to use, offers a no-nonsense Outlook Express-like user interface. With FastTrackNews you will be keep informed about the most recent news.

The program does not require installation, occupies far less space on HD/RAM than other similar paid programs, does not contain any annoying ad banners.

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Chrysanth NETime Channel
$0 - Chrysanth Software Sdn Bhd

Chrysanth NETime Channel enables you to transform Internet Explorer into a powerful RSS news feed reader. You could now view RSS, RDF, and ATOM XML feeds directly inside Internet Explorer as nicely formatted Web pages, absolutely without the need to run additional desktop software.

Now your Internet Explorer is equipped with complete power to display any RSS, RDF or ATOM formatted XML news feed content whenever you come across one! No more fear of unreadable XML content being dumped onto your Internet Explorer display when you "accidentally" click on any RSS links.

Simply enter the RSS feed's URL into Internet Explorer's address bar and click Go, then the nicely formatted RSS content will be immediately displayed as a normal Web page. Alternatively, you can always click on the tiny orange color RSS or XML buttons on any Web page and view the content as you would normal Web page.

Additionally, you can choose from Summary, Content Listing, and Item Detail view options. For better viewing pleasure, you can even change the background theme to suit your individual liking.

Chrysanth NETime Channel Version 3.0 builds and expands even more RSS related features to enhance your RSS subscription experience. You could add individual news feed to the subscription list or import RSS feeds from an OPML list. At the same time, you may also configure your RSS update interval so that all the subscribed feeds will be updated at scheduled times.

Additionally, you may now turn your IE into a GMail notifier, which checks your GMail account regularly and notifies you of any incoming emails.

Finally, the online RSS portal, has been tremendously enhanced to allow you to subscribe any news feeds to your online account now.

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AgileRss
$20.6 - Elfs Software

RSS reader that reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites of interest for updates; It's able to subscribe to a feed, check for new content at user-determined intervals, and retrieve the content. It provides a consolidated view of the content in a single browser display or desktop application. Such applications are also referred to as RSS readers, feed readers, feed aggregators or news readers.

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EasyByte News Ticker
$49 - Easybyte Software Corporation

In a world where our email systems are overflowing, EasyByte Ticker will help set you free! EasyByte Ticker intelligently gathers news and information from ANY website or RSS Feed. The headlines and information such as stock quotes can scroll along the Ticker in a highly customisable manner. The ticker is non-intrusive and can auto-hide like the windows taskbar to allow you to get on with other things when you are not quickly referring to it. Minimal bandwidth is used as data is only downloaded when required. You can get up to the minute stock and shares quotes for any listed company. The integrated RSS Feed Reading application can be quickly opened up to allow you to examine in more detail all of the information that Ticker has downloaded. You can drag and drop RSS / XML feed links from web pages whilst browsing, onto the Ticker and it will add them to its list to download. Ticker has been designed such that it is perfect for Corporate usages, when used in a Corporate network environment a network admin can add or remove feeds to all installed tickers very easily. It is ideal for keeping employees informed on various specific matters. A network admin can also have specific message displayed to everyone, for example'Fire Drill at 5:00pm today'.

Perfect for sending information to Helpdesks or other desktops within a company.

Integrates fully with Active Directory, allowing for rapid enterprise wide installs

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NewsPiper
$0 - Korzh.com

NewsPiper is an RSS feed reader, news aggregator, web grabber and news ticker in one program. It allows you to monitor your favorite news sites (cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.), RSS feeds or blogs, retrieve necessary news and display it in the usual three panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) or scroll it in a special bar (NewsBar) placed at the top of your screen. For each shown headline, you can open the "full story" page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the headline.

Another useful feature of NewsPiper Pro is "news pronouncing": you can set it up to pronounce news headlines and details from one or more channels so NewsPiper can be used as a "radio tuner" for your favorite RSS feeds or Web sites.

Adding a new channel is very easy: you can manually enter the URL of a web site or an RSS feed, or drag-and-drop it from a web browser or another program, or simply paste it in from the clipboard.

You can also add channels from an "Online channel catalog" containing many popular web sites and RSS feeds.

In addition, NewsPiper checks your connection status according to a schedule you setup and changes the color of the icon in the system tray bar accordingly: green means you are online, red indicates offline.

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DownloadStudio
$35.95 - Conceiva

DownloadStudio is a high performance download manager and download accelerator that gets everything on the web. It contains over 12 specialized downloading tools including: single file downloader; file range downloader; web site downloader; streaming media downloader; RSS feed, blog and podcast downloader; audio and video recorder; URL sniffer; flash detection and capture; web site explorer; RSS feed reader; file browser, viewer and organizer; and easy-to-use Quick Start.

DownloadStudio's powerful set of tools let you download all types of content from the web - including programs, games, photos, music, movies, flash, podcasts, RSS feeds, blogs, documents, complete web sites and more.

Features include accelerated downloading (even on broadband connections!), resume broken downloads, schedule downloads for later or at regular intervals, detect and capture flash, record streaming audio and video, find hard-to-get URLs by sniffing your internet connection, browse links on web sites, read RSS feeds, download music and movies for your portable media player (iPod, PSP, etc.), view and organize downloaded files, and much more!

DownloadStudio is easy-to-use with a Quick Start mode and Download Wizard. Extensive help and tutorials explain how to download different types of content from the web.

DownloadStudio works the latest versions of all popular web browsers - including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, Netscape, Maxthon, NetCaptor and Avant Browser.

DownloadStudio supports all popular internet protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MMS, RTSP, RSS, RDF and ATOM.

DownloadStudio contains NO adware or spyware.

New features in version 3.0 include: RSS feed, blog and podcast downloader; create download templates for common download tasks; URL sniffer; web page scrapbook; RSS feed reader; easy-to-use Quick Start window; support for the latest versions of all popular web browsers and more.

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