GreatNews Is A RSS Reader For Desktop
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Date 24/3/2013
Web based RSS readers is a great way to read your favorite updated RSS feed on the web. But some of very popular RSS reader also available for desktop. GreatNews is a very popular desktop rss reader that comes with all the features one would expect from a rss reader. It can import opml feeds which is a standard XML format that contains feed information. Basically any feed reader can export and import opml files. The first thing that observant users will notice is the low resource usage. A direct comparison between FeedDemon and GreatNews revealed that GreatNews was using between 10-20 Megabytes of computer memory less than FeedDemon did. (GreatNews uses about 3 Megabytes when minimized while FeedDemon uses more than 7 MB)
Resource usage is not everything on the other hand. Updating feeds in the rss reader seemed to be a bit faster than it was in FeedDemon as well. This might be caused by a subroutine of the desktop rss reader that automatically detects dead or feeds that have not been updated in a very long time giving the user the option to remove those feeds from the rss software. FeedDemon has a similar option as it displays feeds that are no longer working or have not been updated in a specific time as well. This is a manual process however.
One of the more interesting features of GreatNews is the so called News
Watches. This makes it possible to make the desktop rss reader search
for keywords automatically in previously defined rss feeds. It is for
example possible to search for the name "Bill Gates" in all subscribed
rss news feeds, or for the term Windows only in the Bearsoft feed. This is
an excellent way to find keyword related news articles faster than
usual.
Related:Create A RSS Feeds For Bing Search Result
Other features are:
Web based RSS readers is a great way to read your favorite updated RSS feed on the web. But some of very popular RSS reader also available for desktop. GreatNews is a very popular desktop rss reader that comes with all the features one would expect from a rss reader. It can import opml feeds which is a standard XML format that contains feed information. Basically any feed reader can export and import opml files. The first thing that observant users will notice is the low resource usage. A direct comparison between FeedDemon and GreatNews revealed that GreatNews was using between 10-20 Megabytes of computer memory less than FeedDemon did. (GreatNews uses about 3 Megabytes when minimized while FeedDemon uses more than 7 MB)
Resource usage is not everything on the other hand. Updating feeds in the rss reader seemed to be a bit faster than it was in FeedDemon as well. This might be caused by a subroutine of the desktop rss reader that automatically detects dead or feeds that have not been updated in a very long time giving the user the option to remove those feeds from the rss software. FeedDemon has a similar option as it displays feeds that are no longer working or have not been updated in a specific time as well. This is a manual process however.
Related:Create A RSS Feeds For Bing Search Result
Other features are:
- Various styles can be selected, custom ones created. This includes styles that do not display images, flash or other multimedia contents.
- Offline reading.
- Saving news articles locally.
- Article labels to access articles faster.
- Full page reading.
- Statistics.
- Track Comments
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