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Top 5 Free RSS Readers

To access the RSS Feeds you subscribe to you will need a RSS Feed Reader. There are a large number of RSS Feed Readers you can use. Good Feed Readers allow you to search, organize and categorize RSS news items.

My Top 5 free RSS readers are:

Google Reader

http://www.google.com/reader
Google Reader features:

  • Works in most modern browsers without needing to install any software.
  • Has sensible keyboard shortcuts to make navigating easy
  • Lets you tag, sort and organize individual items using labels
  • Allows you to easily share items on a public web page that has an RSS feed itself and send items by email, or use tags for blogrolls.
  • Has a blog and news search engine to make it easy to find and subscribe to feeds
  • Google Gears allows you to access up to 2000 items offline

Google Reader

Bloglines

http://www.bloglines.com/
Cool Bloglines features:

  • Mobile Bloglines: Allows access to your favourite content on your phone
  • Drag and Drop Feed Manager: Drag and drop to manage your feeds
  • Bloglines Top 1000: Keep track of the Top 1000 most popular feeds
  • 3 Pane Reading View: Gives you more options for reading your feeds
  • Custom Start Page: Allows you to customise your start page with your favourite content

Bloglines

Feedreader

http://www.feedreader.com/
Feedreader features:

  • Feedreader is completely free software that you download and install on your computer
  • It has a very simple and easy-to-use interface which even non-technical users find easy to understand and navigate.
  • Users can create smart feeds by adding key words or phrases related to their area of interest. Feedreader automatically monitors articles, and displays those topics
  • Allows you to add or remove columns from your view
  • With a single click you can group headlines by source, date, or tag

Feedreader

MyYahoo

http://my.yahoo.com/
You can subscribe to RSS feeds using My Yahoo!

MyYahoo features:

  • By entering a keyword or search term Yahoo will automatically create an RSS feed to track the latest news search results for that topic.
  • Yahoo has a very good tutorial on how to set up RSS feeds on to your “My Yahoo!” Page. Click here to read it http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/my2/mycham/my_addcontent3.html

My Yahoo Reader

Firefox Feedly Reader RSS Add-On

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8538
If you use Firefox as your default browser then you should consider using the Firefox Add-On Feedly Reader  to view your RSS Feeds Firefox Reader features:

  • Allows you to import your favorite RSS feeds and sources from Google Reader, Bloglines, Netvibes or your bookmarks
  • Allows you to collect and organize RSS feeds into tabs/categories
  • You can configure multiple views: title only, title and summary, image grid, video grid, entire content
  • Allows you to filter the most relevant/popular content
  • You can share articles on twitter, friendfeed, tumblr, delicious and facebook
  • Has an excellent list of keyboard shortcuts

 The firefox add-on can be found here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8538

Firefox Feedly Reader  RSS Add-On

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Posted by tipsforwebsitedesign on May 10th, 2009 2 Comments