RSS Readers

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.

Nutshell is an application designed to retrieve web content via the RSS format. Nutshell's easy-to-use multi-window interface is completely skinable and includes XSL stylesheet support for web elements. A Ticker bar is provided for new item notification, or for constant streaming of your RSS database. Sort your channel list into groups and tag your favorite items for easy access. Search items by attribute, or do a real-time-text search of all your items. Nutshell supports Import/Export of OPML channel lists as well as drag & drop channel-adding from any web browser.

Snarfer is hand crafted for speed and functionality, it's the best way to Read, Search and Manage RSS. Snarfer presents information to users in a simple to use interface and now includes intelligent searching of Craigslist & eBay. Snarfer is FREE! Enjoy and remember to feed your Snarfer!

Feed Amasser is a light weight Rss Feed Reader that let's you store your feed channels with some descriptive labels and collect the Feeds as you like. This is an optimized tool for reading RSS Feeds only. ATOM Feeds are not supported.

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.

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.

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.

NewsPiper is an RSS/ATOM/Web news reader and news/stock ticker in one. It can show news in the usual 3-panes newsreader interface (channels, headlines, news details) and scroll them in the special bar (NewsBar) placed at the top of your screen.