What do you use or recommend on using as RSS reader. Personally I use Blogbridge. I'm also trying out Newzie, quite nice. Only problem with Newzie is that the content is only concentrate on the center and a lot of display real estate is not put to good use. Where as BlogBridge pack everything nicely, I can see what's the news of the day at one glance. The feature that BlogBridge is lacking is indication of newly updated feed, which Newzie has done a good job on this BlogBridge http://www.blogbridge.com/ Newzie http://www.newzie.com/ Btw, i tried to search if the same topic has been posted before, but the word "rss" is not accepted as a search term, since it's less than 4 character. I think the admin might want to improve on this.

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I have long since given up trying to use search engines that are built into any site. Not only are they slow and quirky, but using them is also detrimental to the performance and availability of the site itself - the search unnecessarily takes up a lot of processing power on the server host.
If you want to search AstaHost for RSS, use Google instead, with key words:
site:astahost.com RSS

Here for completeness a list of more or less popular RSS readers:

Aggie
bitworking.org/Aggie.html
Aggie is a desktop based open-source news aggregator that downloads the latest news in a webpage.

AmphetaDesk
www.disobey.com/amphetadesk
A cross platform, open source news aggregator that downloads news items on the user's desktop.

BlogBridge
www.blogbridge.com
A powerful and flexible desktop based open source feed reader for Windows, Linux and Mac.

BottomFeeder
www.cincomsmalltalk.com/BottomFeeder
RSS news aggregator client written in Smalltalk and compatible with Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris.

Gregarius
gregarius.net
A web-based RSS/RDF/Atom feed reader designed for users to run on their own web server.

JRssReader
sourceforge.net/projects/jfeedreader
A fast, Java based RSS and RDF reader; offers compatibility with multiple platforms.

NewsFeed
home.arcor.de/mdoege/newsfeed
Flexible RSS/RDF/Atom aggregator for different operating systems like Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD.

NRss
nrss.sourceforge.net
An open source Microsoft .NET Framework / Mono class library for reading a RSS feed into a tree of objects mapped to elements in the RSS feed.

RSSOwl
www.rssowl.org
Java-based open source news reader.

Syndirella
www.yole.ru/projects/syndirella
Syndirella is an open source desktop information aggregator providing a user friendly environment for reading information from multiple sources or feeds.

ThinFeeder
thinfeeder.sourceforge.net
Very powerful and tiny open source aggregator for RSS/Atom developed in Java language.

 

 

 

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You can use Thunderbird and have all of your RSS feeds go into that program. You can also set up your email account and have stuff go in there as well. If you're on the internet pretty much all the time with a reliable connection, then Thunderbird would be my recommendation. Plus, you can't beat the price, right? It's freeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Hope that helps.

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I tend to use the built in RSS reader that is built into Opera, It seems to do everything and its very easy to use.

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in linux I use Liferea (I have done a tutorial one on like installing it if you want you can read it: http://www.astahost.com/liferea-feed-reade...ing-t16851.html ), and in Windows as reader of feeds use Thunderbird, but you want to read approaches other readers of feeds you can read this post http://mashable.com/2007/06/11/rss-toolbox/, make a compilation there of readers of feeds for the main operating systems (Linux, Windows and Mac OS)

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That's the way to go for me as well. I'm currently using FireFox and been using Sage for my RSS reader. Built in with no external program involved. Light-weight and ease of use. Since most of the time I'll be surfing and reading in the web. That's the best.

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Love the built in rss reader on opera. Don't even need to open another window to check stuff, it's all in the one program.
Nice and lightweight but seems to do everything it should.
I don't need an external reader with more powerful features because i only subscribe to the occasional rss feed here and there but i'm not a heavy user.

-HellFire

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