Syndirella. This is the news aggregator for Windows I’ve been waiting for.
- Open source (GPL-licensed)
- A real application. Sorry, I’ve given that whole desktop web-based application thing more than its fair chance (even created my own for a client in my day job). It’s just not working out.
- Simple 3-paned interface, ala NetNewsWire.
- RSS autodiscovery, and then some. It tries harder, like all news aggregators should.
- Support for
<content:encoded>(full HTML posts). - Support for
<pubDate>and<dc:date>(item-level dates). - Per-feed subscription properties (including how often to check for updates).
- Lots of other cool little features.
- And most importantly, a built-in scraper, ala RSSDistiller and Cheesegrater. Allows you to configure it to read stubborn sites that don’t provide RSS feeds.
Note: requires the .NET framework. This will not install any evil spyware on your system or force you to sign up for Passport. It’s just a bunch of APIs that sit around waiting to be called. It is 20 MB, though.
