January 20, 2003

Syndirella, a really new and cool aggregator!

From dive into mark

Syndirella.
This is the news aggregator for Windows I've been waiting for.
  • Open source (GPL-licensed)
  • A real application. Sorry, I've given that whole desktop web-based application thing more than its fair chance (even created my own for a client in my day job). It's just not working out.
  • Simple 3-paned interface, ala NetNewsWire.
  • RSS autodiscovery, and then some. It tries harder, like all news aggregators should.
  • Support for (full HTML posts).
  • Support for and (item-level dates).
  • Per-feed subscription properties (including how often to check for updates).
  • Lots of other cool little features.
  • And most importantly, a built-in scraper, ala RSSDistiller and Cheesegrater. Allows you to configure it to read stubborn sites that don't provide RSS feeds.

Note: requires the .NET framework. This will not install any evil spyware on your system or force you to sign up for Passport. It?s just a bunch of APIs that sit around waiting to be called. It is 20 MB, though.

 
Posted by bruce at January 20, 2003 03:22 AM |
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