Feed Notifier is an application for Windows and Mac OS X that resides in the system tray or status bar and displays pop-up notifications on your desktop when new items arrive in your subscribed RSS or Atom feeds. By default, the pop-ups look like this (on Windows)…
Feed Notifier is for you if you want a news aggregator that focuses on real-time feed notifications and leaves out all the other stuff that comes with most news readers.
Main Features:
- Supports all common RSS and Atom web feed protocols.
- Clean look and feel, doesn’t get in your way.
- Configurable polling interval for each feed.
- Configurable popup duration.
- Configurable popup size, position and transparency.
- Configurable popup border size and color.
- Popups do not steal keyboard or mouse focus from other applications.
- Popups show item age and author.
- Navigation controls in popups to view next/previous items.
- Advanced keyword filtering options.
- Supports launching from Firefox and other browsers via feed:// protocol.
- Supports enabling/disabling individual feeds.
- Deactivates when user is idle to save bandwidth and processing time.
- Supports authenticated feeds that require a username and password.
- Supports using a proxy server.
- Displays favicon for feeds when available.
- Multi-threaded feed polling.
Changes in v2.6:
- Fixed caching bug that caused old items to reappear for some feeds.
Download: Feed Notifier 2.6 | 7.0 MB (Freeware)
Download: Portable Feed Notifier 2.6 | 7.1 MB
Download: Feed Notifier 1.1 for Mac OS X | 800 KB
View: Feed Notifier Website