Windows users always have a lot of choice when choosing applications and software programs for certain tasks. This is especially true for popular subjects like reading RSS news. A selection of fine online and offline computer programs are available that can be used to view RSS feeds. Some of the most popular include Google Reader, [...]

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FeedStitch is a news aggregator that can combine multiple RSS news feeds and other data sources into one RSS feed or Json format. It is by far not as complex as Yahoo Pipes but provides a comfortable and fast way of combining multiple news sources into one. FeedStitch offers multiple third-party ways of logging into [...]

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A little known fact is the possibility to subscribe to an RSS feed of WordPress categories, authors or tags instead of the full site feed. This can be really useful if you love to subscribe to one specific author, category or tag of the blog. One prime example could be to subscribe to a Firefox [...]

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Having subscriptions to hundreds of RSS news feeds can sometimes mean news overkill. This is especially true for times when a big new application or service gets announced because these usually get picked up by more than 20% of all the tech sites out there. News Filtering – or keyword filtering – describes the process [...]

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Helvetireader is a minimal Google Reader interface theme supplied as a userscript that turns Google Reader into an optimized feed reader that is displaying only the essentials. It was especially designed to view feeds in the expanded view using keyboard shortcuts. A userscript compatible browser is needed for the new interface theme to work. Long [...]

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Feedrinse is a basic RSS feed filter that can be used to filter one or multiple feeds so that only selected articles will be included in the mashup. This could remind a few users of Yahoo Pipes. The service provided by Feedrinse is however basic in comparison to that of Yahoo Pipes. A user of [...]

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We have shown you yesterday how you can forward RSS news to Email. Today it is the other way round by reviewing the service MailOnFeed which creates RSS news feeds out of Email accounts. The basic principle of the service is straightforward. The user adds one or multiple email accounts that support IMAP to his [...]

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Converting RSS news to Email can be useful for users who prefer to receive information about updates of their favorite sites in their inbox. It also comes in handy when using mobile devices because it is usually easier to read the news in an email client instead of having to read them in a web [...]

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Readburner looks like a mashup of Digg, Techmeme and Delicious somehow on first glance but it is actually something completely different. The website aggregates shared items from Google Reader displaying those that have been shared on their pages. The service lives under the assumption that quality news stories get shared while those with lesser quality do not.

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