Feed Readers Watch

This is the bug fix version of the Nightcrawler release (1.3.0.38)

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.

Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want.

• Completely web-based (runs on your web server)
• Simple, password-protected, administration and configuration
• AJAX powered item tagging
• Full-text search
• Committed to web standards: renders XHTML/CSS, supports OPML
• Gregarius is FREE software and is released under the GPL

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

Raggle 0.4.4 is now available for download. Here’s what’s new:

• New “yank” command (bound to shift-Y by default) for feed items with either empty or truncated descriptions.
• Added –update command-line option (update your Raggle from Cron, the moon, etc).
• Switched to Ruby’s built-in Logger class for logging. This gives us a cleaner log file format, log rotation, and log levels.
• New purge-deleted keybinding (bound to shift-P by default).
• Improved I18N support

A new beta release of Post2Blog is now available featuring, among other things, improved support for Chitika and Adsense.

Post2Blog is a handy desktop blogging client for Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, Movable Type powered blogs. It is capable of posting from Word, Firefox, Internet Explorer, sending pictures to blog from Explorer. You can insert images, create hyperlinks, link words to online dictionaries. Images and linked files are automatically uploaded (FTP is supported as well). You can use Word to compose new posts in Word and post them using Post2Blog toolbar for Word. Built-in multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus. UNICODE text is supported. Capable of pinging web-services and send trackbacks automatically.

Web Clips shows you news headlines, Gmail tips, blogs, any RSS and Atom feed, relevant sponsored links, and more — right at the top of your inbox and messages. Receive updates from your favorite sites without having to leave Gmail!

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.

BottomFeeder 4.1 has been released featuring numerous bug fixes.

BottomFeeder is an RSS Feed and OCS FeedList reader/viewer. The viewer is implemented in Smalltalk, and is cross platform - supporting Windows, Macintosh, intel Linux, and most Unix implementations (AIX, SGI, Alpha Unix, Solaris, HPUX 10 and HPUX 11)

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.