Re: [Hampshire] RSS reader app - what a good idea!

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:41:55PM -0000, Stephen Rowles wrote:
> I've used live bookmarks in firefox before and quite frankly wondered what
> the point was I kept having to click on the bookmark to see what had
> changed, it didn't seem to achieve anything useful.
>
> However I have just discovered and installed Liferea which is brilliant
> and I wish I had known about it before!
>
> I've put the RSS feeds of the various website I look at (which fortunately
> have RSS feeds) I now have a little blob (I think it is supposed to be a
> globe) that sits down by the clock on my KDE bar and checks all the feeds
> once an hour, and the icon changes colour if there are new unread feeds.
>
> It also has a nice "unread" folder which aggregates all the unread items
> from the separate feeds into one place to look for things I haven't read
> yet.


I use Brief, which is a Firefox plugin that gets its RSS feeds from
a collection of Live Bookmarks, but gives you the management features
that you mention above. It has the advantage of living within Firefox,
so you can add RSS feeds without having to pass them to an external
application.

Hugo.

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