Feed Readers Watch

NewsPiper 3.5.0 is now available with an ability to setup filters for ticker, “Auto hide” option for News Bar and many other additional features.

NewsPiper is an unique program that combines RSS/ATOM feeds reader and aggregator, news ticker and Web grabber in one environment. This program can show news from different sources: Web-pages (like cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.) or RSS/ATOM news feeds. Retrived news are shown in the usual three-panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) and in a special news ticker bar (News Bar) placed at the top of your desktop.

Attensa for Outlook 1.0 Beta is out featuring an abundance of search engines and performance improvements.

Now you can add search feeds from these engines: Blog Digger, Daypop, Del.icio.us, Feedster, flickr, Moreover, MSN search, Technorati, Wired News, Yahoo! News, Plazoo, SeekItAll, Google News, Google Blogs, Wikipedia, Feed24, IceRocket, Digg, and Yahoo! (whew!). With such a variety of search engines you’re sure to find what you’re looking for and have it delivered right into clearly labeled folders in Outlook.

Attensa for Outlook works inside Microsoft Outlook to bring up-to-the-minute RSS news and information from your favorite Websites and blogs right into your Outlook folders.

Tags: Attensa, Outlook

New polished Ziepod version 0.98 is available for download. This update includes many new features including capability of playing audio files from your computer and web pages by just drag-and-dropping files or links. Coming with this release, customization of global settings and settings for each individual podcast makes Ziepod even more powerful.

Online News Screensaver is a unique and informative screensaver tool that delivers the latest news and weather forecast right to the screen of your computer. If you have a direct Internet access, this RSS screensaver will keep bringing you the news reports continuously.

These are the main features:

• Hot news from top internet sites in real-time (predefined feeds only!);
• Photos in news annotation;
• Real-time stock quotes;
• Weather information with a five day forecast updated twice per day;
• RSS, RDF, ATOM and free-formatted text (RegExp) supported as a news sources;
• Picture slide show on the background;
• Different visual effects, such as flowing and fadeout;
• Full customization, you decide what kind of information you want to receive;
• English, German, Italian and Russian user interface.

RssFeedEater 1.3 has been released. The most obvious improvement is an AdBlock feature to improve readability of sites overcrowded with advertisements, but there are many hidden new features and bug fixes.

The Nightcrawler release of RSS Bandit is now done and available for all. Besides the new features there are a number of performance improvements especially with regards to the responsiveness of the application.

New Features:

• NNTP Newsgroups support
• Item Manipulation from Newspaper View
• Subscription Wizard
• Synchronization with Newsgator Online
• Using back and forward arrows to view last post seen in reading pane
• Atom 1.0 support
• Threaded Posts Now Optional
• Launching Browsers in the Background
• UI Improvements

Tags: RSS Bandit

Awasu 2.2 is now available. Folders in My Channels were added by extending the old concept of categories. Combined with channel filters, Awasu now has an extremely powerful system for managing your channels.

The entire UI now sports a completely revamped and improved UI, with a whole bunch of additional windows to manage everything that Awasu does for you now, multiple workpads, Print and Print preview functionality and support for the middle mouse button.

Tags: Awasu

Abilon 2.5 has been released featuring enclosure support and search engine subscriptions.

RSSMate is a free compact RSS news and weblog reader. The design philosophy behind RSSMate is for simplicity and compactness, and unlike many RSS readers, does not attempt to emulate features of a web browser.

News Interceptor allows you to keep up-to-date with all news on the Web. It supports all known syndication formats (RSS, Atom, RDF). With its unique technology powered by RSScache.com services, it’s easy to find feeds that suite your interests.