Freeware Directory

Freeware - RSS Readers

Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox, it's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. Sage interprets Live Bookmarks just as it does regular bookmarks, allowing the user to subscribe to feeds using the auto-discovery mechanism in Firefox. Live Bookmarks may be added to your Sage Feeds folder using Firefox's orange feed indicator icon, making them available for reading in the Sage sidebar. This gives users a quick and easy subscription method, while Sage's built-in 'Discover Feeds' function provides a more thorough scan.

FeedMe is a simple web feed reader, it has a clean and easy to use interface that displays the most current headlines from user selected feeds.

Chaos Wallpaper is a free program that automatically rotates your desktop wallpaper while displaying RSS or Atom Syndicated News on your desktop. Customize your own Syndicated News Feeds by adding feed links or by creating your own rss text file. Fully customize the look of your RSS display. You can change the position, color, typeface, or even put images on the background of the display section.

RSSOwl is a free, OpenSource, RSS/RDF/Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library, it comes with a huge list of sample favorites. 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.

cRSSReader is a desktop application that aggregates your favorite RSS feeds and National Weather Service Current Observations into one easy to use interface. Allows users to add, edit and delete RSS News feeds, save articles (and delete saved articles), add, edit and delete NOAA experimental XML observation feeds, and configure the automatic update interval. Please Note: cRSSReader requires Microsoft's .Net Framework Version 1.1 it will run on other versions of Windows if this is installed.