Friday, January 28, 2005

Some RSS Feed for lunch anyone?

As i sat here tonight, GmailStatus notified me i had a new email. It was a newsletter from SourceForce.net (whom i'd forgotten i had an account with btw, thank you for reminding me... lol). Was a decently interesting read, most interesting was the mention of Project of the Month - January 2005, RSSOwl.

RSSOwl is a Java based, platform independent, RSS Newsfeed reader/aggregators. I know this program isn't anything new and great that just apeared on the face of the earth a few days ago, but to me it did, cause i'd never heard about till now -- probably cause i hardly ever use RSS feeds -- but its worth mentioning here i believe. Not that anyone will actually read it within the next, well, i donno, we'll see :P... lol

I was quick to download the Mac version of RSSOwl to have a go at it, and its quite a nice program. It comes with a wide range of Favorites to RSS feeds, everything from Slashdot.org to Variety.com (book reviews) and lots more. A link to the article on the website is of course also provided, which when clicked it loaded within RSSOwl itself. So no need for external browsers launching if you're the kinda person concerned about system resources (or just have a slow computer :P).

All in all, its surely worth taking at least a quick look at ;)

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