Feed Readers Watch

A new version of RSSOwl has been released.

RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It’s easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It’s platform-independent.

Tags: RSSOwl

SharpReader 0.9.6.0 is now available at sharpreader.net.

Changes since the last version are:

• Support for Atom 1.0.
• Listening on port 5335 is now done on localhost only. This should prevent your firewall from showing this alert message.
• You can now change the url of a feed through the feed properties pane.
• If your subscriptions.xml file got corrupted somehow, sharpreader now reads the previous version upon startup (this would previously crash SharpReader on startup).
• Fixed “The server committed an HTTP protocol violation.” errors that are often thrown by wordpress feeds because of an invalid header. SharpReader now ignores these bad headers instead of throwing an exception.
• Fixed a bug in the feed-discovery code.
• Improved http redirect handling.
• Uninstaller now asks whether to remove all settings and cache files.

Tags: SharpReader

RSS Captor is an easy-to-use RSS client that allows you to receive and manage news feeds in a searchable database. The program keeps all messages of subscribed feeds in a database, so you can perform detailed searches (even using regular expressions) for all current and past news items, and locate articles of interest.

Tags: RSS Captor

FireANT is an RSS video aggregator and media player that can automatically download media content for you to watch and listen to.

FireANT lets you subscribe to any RSS 2.0 feed that supports enclosures or Yahoo! Media RSS. FireANT can playback any media format and syncs audio files with iTunes so you can easily add them to your portable MP3 player. FireANT can also transcode and sync video files onto the Sony PSP with a simple Right-Click.

Tags: FireANT, Videoblog, vlog

FeedBurner has announced immediate support for the latest syndication format, Atom 1.0, across the entire spectrum of FeedBurner services. Since Atom 1.0 is not backwards compatible with the existing Atom format, FeedBurners free SmartFeed service has been updated to provide the conversion of Atom 1.0 feeds to Atom 0.3 or RSS 2.0 for feed readers that don’t yet support it.

Tags: FeedBurner

NewzCrawler 1.8 RC1 is now available with quite a few enhancements and bug fixes.

Tags: NewzCrawler

The first Awasu 2.1.3 alpha release is now available.

It’s been a long, hard slog putting this release together but it’s been well worth it. Awasu has undergone a huge revamp and re-organization of it’s user interface and it looks fantastic! Past releases have introduced a lot of new features and along with them, a bunch of options to configure them. This release tidies everything up, presenting all the settings in a more logical and easier-to-use way. There have also been a large number of new features and bug fixes included.

Tags: Awasu

Blox0r now supports Atom 1.0.

BloxOr is a new, very nice and fast online feed aggregator with a look and feel of a desktop app. BloxOr uses the XML User Interface Language (XUL) so it will work only in Gecko browsers like Mozilla or Firefox.

Tags: BloxOr, XUL

Pluck 2.0, Firefox Edition is a lightweight RSS feed aggregator and integrated bookmark manager. Using Pluck, you can easily navigate between the RSS Reader and Bookmark Manager via an integrated sidebar. Via a free subscription service, you can synchronize your RSS Feeds and bookmarks across multiple computers at work or at home.

Tags: Pluck, Firefox RSS

Nick Bradbury (or rather the company that bought him out) is taking FeedDemon to a subscription based model. However, after a lot of negative feedback from FeedDemon users, the model has changed, so it will not stop working after your subscription runs out. You’ll still be able to read your feeds and download new items. As many of you suggested, more than likely we’ll disable features that rely on the subscription service (basically, synching and other pieces that tie into NewsGator’s online services), but everything else will continue to work (forever, if you like).