Hello

Feedling is a Windows-based RSS reader that sits handily on your desktop. It's a .NET 2.0 app that's been tested on XP and Vista 32-bit, and should work on 2000 as well. I find it useful, even if no-one else does.

License

Feedling is © 2008 Andrew Rowson (that's me) and is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Handy places to read up on what that means are the license itself, a quick guide to the GPLv3 and the GNU homepage.

Features

As an RSS reader, Feedling can read a variety of different formats. Currently, it can cope with RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RDF and Atom. I've implemented this as a plugin-based architecture, so that people can write their own parsers, or just improve on mine. If you want more details on this, then go to the plugins page where I'll confuse you into giving up.

In terms of other features, it's pretty simple at the moment. It can read any number of feeds that you want and then chucks a maximum of 10 items onto your desktop, refreshing every 10 (or so, it's fuzzy) minutes. Clicking on these headlines will open the relevant url in your favourite browser. Future releases will allow the user to determine: refresh interval, font, colour and mouseover colour, and the number of items reported - all per feed. At the moment, these options are somewhat limited to what I was feeling like at the time.

In the meantime, here's a screenshot. There's more at the screenshots page. However, the download page is far more interesting.