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Software Downloads > Freeware > Internet > News Readers
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Active Web Reader - Developer's Site

Description: Active Web Reader is a free Web-feed reader (aggregator). It supports RSS feed formats 0.9x, 1.x, and 2.x.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.deskshare.com/download_details.aspx?ID=20
Size: 904 KB


AmphetaDesk - Developer's Site

Description: AmphetaDesk is a free syndicated news aggregator - it obediently sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news stories that interest you, and displays them in a quick easy to use and customisable! Web page. With thousands of channels available, AmphetaDesk can shave hours off your day - and you'll look smart to all your friends!

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98 or later; Mac OS 8/9/X
Download: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk
Size: 2.13 MB


Awasu Personal Edition - Developer's Site

Description: Awasu is a free Windows news-reader that runs in the background on your computer and monitors these sites for you.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.awasu.com/comparison.php
Size: 4.2 MB


Feedreader - Developer's Site

Description: Feedreader is lightweight and it supports RSS and ATOM formats.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Download: http://feedreader.com
Size: 1.43 MB


Free Agent - Developer's Site

Description: The best Newsgroup reader around with built in decoding, easy group and message management and multi-lingual spell checking.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows
Download: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/download.php
Size: 2.29 MB


Jyte - Developer's Site

Description: Jyte brings you up-to-the-minute news from all your favourite sources in one easy-to-use program.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP; Mac OSX; Linux
Download: http://www.jyte.com/download.html
Size: 4.28 MB


NetNewsWire Lite - Developer's Site

Description: NetNewsWire is an RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. It can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs, making it quick and easy to keep up with the latest news.

Price: Donationware
Platform: Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or greater
Download: http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/
Size: 2.4 MB


Pluck - Developer's Site

Description: An RSS feed reader plus online management tools that include searching Web pages and product listings on shopping sites.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 2000 SP3/XP
Download: http://www.pluck.com/download.aspx
Size: 4.95 MB


RSS Popper - Developer's Site

Description: Get news items delivered directly to Outlook as emails. No need to use a separate program for reading RSS any more. All RSS/RDF/Atom formats are supported.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Download: http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/2004/10/download.html
Size: 360 KB


RssReader - Developer's Site

Description: Free RSS reader is able to display any RSS and Atom news feed (XML)

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003
Download: http://www.rssreader.com/download.htm
Size: 1.41 MB


Serence KlipFolio - Developer's Site

Description: Serence KlipFolio is an information awareness and notification application for Windows that saves you time and effort by intelligently monitoring remote data sources - like weather, stocks, Hotmail, news, RSS feeds and even auctions--right on your desktop.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/NT/ME/2000/XP
Download: http://www.serence.com/site.php?action=ser_products,prod_klipfolio
Size: 566 KB


SharpReader - Developer's Site

Description: SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows

Price: Donationware
Platform: Windows
Download: http://sharpreader.com
Size: 808 KB


Snarfer - Developer's Site

Description: Snarfer manages all your RSS feeds for you. This means that your favourite information is delivered to you automatically; just subscribe to an RSS feed with Snarfer, and Snarfer collects the information for you each time you start the program. Snarfer's interface is intuitive; your RSS feeds are on the left, in collections of folders. The right panel shows the latest items in each feed, with a viewer window. The program is blazingly fast, and is highly customizable. You can import your feeds from your current feed reader.

Price: Free
Platform: Windows 2000/XP
Download: http://www.snarfware.com
Size: 311 KB


Tristana Reader - Developer's Site

Description: Tristana is a free software download which allows you to pull content directly from the Web onto your desktop without email.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003
Download: http://www.charlwood.com/tristana/download/
Size: 735 KB


Wildgrape NewsDesk - Developer's Site

Description: NewsDesk reads headlines from thousands of sources, including popular websites and weblogs.

Price: Freeware
Platform: Windows 98/NT/Me/2000/XP
Download: http://www.wildgrape.net/download.htm
Size: 1.64 MB