Looking for RSS-reader

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are any of these recomendations portable ? i.e. can they fit on a USB
drive without installing?
 
Juha said:
Looking for recommendations of freeware RSS-reader, that doesn't need
Microsot NET. TIA
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Thunderbird and Firefox-both have RSS readers.
What more could you ask for?
-max
 
On 15 Jul 2005, *ProteanThread* wrote
are any of these recomendations portable ? i.e. can they fit on a USB
drive without installing?
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FeedReader appears to work without installing, and my folder for it is
1.60 MB.
 
Max said:
Thunderbird and Firefox-both have RSS readers.
What more could you ask for?
-max
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I thought the same thing until I tried a standalone reader... much
nicer, and easier to use. Firefox is a great webbrowser, but a lousy
rss reader. Thunderbird is a great e-mail client, but a mediocre news
and rss reader, imho...
Gord

PS - I use SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net/) for rss, myself.
 
Guido said:
I thought the same thing until I tried a standalone reader... much
nicer, and easier to use. Firefox is a great webbrowser, but a lousy
rss reader. Thunderbird is a great e-mail client, but a mediocre news
and rss reader, imho...
Gord

PS - I use SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net/) for rss, myself.
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Have you tried any RSS extensions for Firefox? infoRSS is one of my
favorites-puts a scrolling bar anywhere(I like it running on the
bottom)in Firefox you can set the scrolling speed and how often it
checks the feed. You just click on one of the headlines and it opens the
page in browser window. I like programs that multi-task(like I have to
do) I don't use Thunderbird for RSS but I like that I can get all my
e-mail accounts(yahoo,hotmail,g-mail,and my isp's pop)in one place and
not use Microsnot software.
-max
 
Guido said:
I thought the same thing until I tried a standalone reader... much
nicer, and easier to use. Firefox is a great webbrowser, but a lousy
rss reader. Thunderbird is a great e-mail client, but a mediocre news
and rss reader, imho...
Gord

PS - I use SharpReader (http://www.sharpreader.net/) for rss, myself.
Click to expand...

Have you tried any RSS extensions for Firefox? infoRSS is one of my
favorites-puts a scrolling bar anywhere(I like it running on the
bottom)in Firefox you can set the scrolling speed and how often it
checks the feed. You just click on one of the headlines and it opens the
page in browser window. I like programs that multi-task(like I have to
do) I don't use Thunderbird for RSS but I like that I can get all my
e-mail accounts(yahoo,hotmail,g-mail,and my isp's pop)in one place and
not use Microsnot software.
-max
 
nntp//rss ...let's you read rss feeds in most any standard news
reader...loads rss feeds in a similar fashion to loading newsgroups
 
Harvey said:
On 15 Jul 2005, *ProteanThread* wrote




FeedReader appears to work without installing, and my folder for it is
1.60 MB.
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Where on that site is the no-install version 2.9? I see the setup version,
and the source zip does not contain the executable.

Mike Sa
 
On 15 Jul 2005, *ProteanThread* wrote




FeedReader appears to work without installing, and my folder for
it is 1.60 MB.
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Where on that site is the no-install version 2.9? I see the setup
version, and the source zip does not contain the executable.[/QUOTE]

What I discovered was that -- as far as I can tell -- the installer
doesn't actually install much, but just unzips the .exe to a folder.

That's what I meant by "appears" to work -- I could be wrong -- but the
program still runs fine if I copy the "installed" program to elsewhere
and delete it from where it had been installed. (I took that to mean
that nothing nothing was pointing to the original location.)
 
Harvey said:
On 16 Jul 2005, ms wrote




What I discovered was that -- as far as I can tell -- the installer
doesn't actually install much, but just unzips the .exe to a folder.

That's what I meant by "appears" to work -- I could be wrong -- but the
program still runs fine if I copy the "installed" program to elsewhere
and delete it from where it had been installed. (I took that to mean
that nothing nothing was pointing to the original location.)
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Thanks, I'll give it a try, on DUN it's a long download.

Mike Sa
 
the problem after just trying it (it is a good reader tho) is that it
installs files (data files) into the users application directory.
other than that it is quite faster than GreatNews.
 
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