What is Feedreader

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Feedreader is the most robust, highly-functional personal aggregation solution on the market today. A feed reader is a software program or service that allows you to read feeds. Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is to explain what a feed reader does for you.It dynamically reads, collects, and organizes syndicated Web content, and seamlessly delivers it directly to user desktops. With Feedreader, you have instant, convenient access to the up-to-the-minute news you need, without information overload.

Feedreader provides cutting-edge features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment. Even non-technical users can view comprehensive, consolidated information from across the Internet – faster and easier than ever before.It save me lots of time that I would otherwise spend on visiting each site individually. Tracking News and Articles is one of the most popular ways to use Feedreader, however there is no limit on the kind of information it can track for you.

For instance, a currency exchange website can offer real time feeds (that’s wha goes into your feedreader) on the current exchange rates. Similarly, a soccer website can offer feeds for match scores and etc. When you let your feedreader track some website, there is no need to visit website to check for new items, as soon as there are relevant updates you will get them in your Feedreader.

• User-Friendly Interface
  
  Feedreader’s interface is simple and easy-to-use. So, any user can leverage all its power and benefits, without any technical expertise. Users can select from different view modes – including the popular “River of News“ view – with just a single click, and group headlines by source, date, or tag. They can even add or remove columns from their views.
  
  
• Maximum Flexibility
  
  Feedreader supports all mainstream feed formats on market today, and will work on any computer running Windows 2000 or higher.
  
  
• Advanced Filtering
  
  With Feedreader, you can leverage the most sophisticated news filtering features. Any normal feed can be converted into a “smart feed“, then quickly converted back to a normal feed by specifying what information to filter in or out. And you can easily increase the organization and readability of your feeds by combining multiple information streams into a single feed.

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Some of the features of Feedreader:-

1. Improved user interface
   
   
   
   • Radically simplified user interface
   • One-click access for different view modes
   • Popular "River Of News" view
   • Grouping headlines by source, date or tag
   • Possibility to add and remove columns from view
   
   
   
2. Unparalleled Functionality
   
   Feedreader offers the broadest range of capabilities, and provides advanced, state-of-the-art features that cannot be found in any other agreggation solution.Feedreader then automatically monitors articles for those topics, and displays them in the left feed panel.Additionally, Feedreader can automatically download enclosures and podcasts that are attached to articles, and allows you to tag all articles, for more intuitive organization and categorization. And, Feedreader enables users to create nested folders, and offers full support for Unicode and secure SSL connections.Its unique smart feed capability helps users immediately find the information that is most important and relevant to them.
   
   
3. Optimum Performance
   
   Feedreader – with its Intelliupdate features – is designed to efficiently handle even the highest volume of feeds. Additionally, it starts up and shuts down quickly, so it won’t negatively impact desktop performance.
   
   
4. Lightweight Architecture
   
   Because the Feedreader footprint is so small (its installation file is under 4MB), it won’t use up excess space or compromise desktop performance.
   
   
5. Full Customizability
   
   Feedreader is fully customizable, so it can be tailored to meet your specific information needs. And, Feedreader OEM is perfect for media companies, corporations, and other businesses that want to deploy a unique RSS reader solution across their organization.
   
   
6. Best of all it's free
   
   Feedreader is available to end users at absolutely no cost. No hidden fees, no spyware, no adware. Just powerful collection and delivery of content from your favorite Web sites.

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How to use feedreaders?

Feedreader can be either a web based or a desktop program (like Microsoft Outlook). Using feedreader is very simple all you need to do is to add he websites you want to monitor. To add website or service to monitor you need to take following steps

Clarify that the website syndicate any feeds. Websites that syndicate their content have usually one following or similar icons displayed on the pages.

Click on the icon and you will be taken to the feed page, you need to copy the address of this page to your feed reader and you are done.

Select the Reader which you want for subscription.

Conclusion

Using a feed reader is a great time saver and a great way to be able to process vast amounts of information quickly. Most people find they can follow from 5-10x more sources using a feed reader than they can visiting individual web sites.

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