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December 1, 2008 12:00 AM PST

Featured Freeware: Portable FeedReader

Posted by Seth Rosenblatt

The world is full of feed readers. Portable FeedReader's claim to fame is its portability, obviously, but there's more to like than just being able to cram it on your USB drive with room to spare.

The program offers a standard RSS feed-reading interface with three vertical panes. One lists the feeds, the second shows the titles of the selected feeds stories, and the third serves as a viewer. Although the panes' width can be changed by clicking and dragging, the viewer pane is a bit narrow to comfortably read a typical Web page story. Portable FeedReader offers at launch selections from preloaded feeds, and adding a feed is a simple process.

Occasionally, the reader didn't respect the default browser settings and opened a new browser window instead of a new tab, but that's largely a minor quibble. Whether a novice or an expert, Portable FeedReader is worth trying out. And the price can't be beat.

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by Mdelisle December 2, 2008 11:05 PM PST
This reminds me of...every other feed reader I've seen. The simplicity is nice, but the pop-ups are annoying, and it's about as pretty as a cow in pants.

My feed reader of choice is Real Simple News. It's more friendly than any of the other readers and you never get annoying pop-ups. www.realsimplenewsreader.com
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