Avondhu Blackwater Partnership have now initiated RSS Feeds for this news blog so you can stay in touch with updates, news and information and events! Click http://feeds.feedburner.com/AvondhuBlackwater to add our news feeds to your RSS subscription.
No doubt you have seen those small orange ‘XML’ or ‘RSS’ buttons beginning to spread across some of your favourite web sites. RSS or (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feeds. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in.
News readers allow you to keep updated with the feeds that you are subscribed to. There are several to choose from – some involve downloading some software, some involve visiting a web site, some are free, and some require a small investment.
Here are 15 different news readers you can choose from, in approximate order of recommendation under each category:
Browser-Based:
BlogLines (http://www.bloglines.com)
AmphetaDesk (http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/)
NewsIsFree (http://www.newsisfree.com/)
Software For Windows:
NewsGator (http://www.newsgator.com/) – integrates into Microsoft Outlook
FeedDemon (http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/)
Awasu (http://www.awasu.com/)
SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net/)
FeedReader (http://www.feedreader.com/)
NewsWatcher (http://www.newswatcher.com/)
NewsRanker (http://egofile.com/newsranker/)
Novobot (http://www.proggle.com/novobot/)
Radio Userland (http://radio.userland.com/) – blogging tool with an integrated news aggregator
Software For Mac:
NetNewsWire (http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/)
Software For Linux:
Straw (http://www.nongnu.org/straw/) for GNOME
RSS2email (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rss2email/) – Python script that sends you new messages from your feeds via email
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