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BROWSER SOFTWARE DIRECTORY
BROWSERS - CHILD SAFE
BROWSERS - MOZILLA
BROWSERS - POPULAR
BROWSERS - PLUG-INS
CHAT CLIENTS
RSS READERS
MAIN SOFTWARE & TECH TIPS DIRECTORY
BROWSERS - CHILD SAFE
- AmiWeb, the safe and customizable browser, brings the very best educational and entertaining web sites to children ages 4 to 11. Completely free, this software allows young Internet surfers to discover the Internet in a safe and secure environment. Furthermore, it offers an incredible range of activities and games to stimulate their imagination. AmiWeb, as well, includes a space reserved just for parents. Parent's Corner is another free service offered to all parents and educators who take educating children. Windows 3x/95/98/2000/ME/NT.
- iProtectYou allows parents to control which web sites can be visited, which programs can have Internet access, block e-mails, chat sessions and instant messages with inappropriate words, stop annoying ads, and/or restrict internet time to a predetermined schedule. It will gather detailed information about your child's online activity. Comes provided with a huge built-in database. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
- Kid Defender Lite gives you the power to see what your children are viewing on the Internet and to shield them from content you don't want them to see. Furthermore, you can monitor and block instant-messenging services such as MSN IM, Yahoo IM, ICQ, and AIM. Kid Defender Lite can be installed on multiple computers in your home. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
- KidRocket is a FREE Kids Web Browser, designed for Kids to safely surf the internets top child related web sites. Each human edited, hand picked site offers many fun, educational and interactive activities for children and parents alike. New password-protected Parental Admin Area, New GUI, over 200 custom colors, offline math flashcards. Keep your children safe on the web, learn, play games and have fun with KidRocket! Parental controls, Freeware. Windows 95/98/ME/NT3.x/NT4.x/XP/2000.
- ppBrowser - Here is a kidSafe browser that offers total parental control It works behind the scenes with Internet Explorer via a TrustFile approach. If its not in the TrustFile, kids can't go there. Knowing the password, of course, enables parents to go anywhere. If you are using other BHO programs (GoZilla, etc.), you should run with IE 5.5 or above. Windows 9.x.
- Tadpole - Internet Browser for Toddlers. Most features of a typical browser have been eliminated to make the interface simple to use and to minimize the possibility of accidently surfing to another webpage or printing. The button images, captions, and URLs are read from a text file which can be created and edited by pressing the "Setup" button on the splash screen. There is no spyware, nags, or guarantees included with Tadpole. Tadpole may be freely distributed provided that it remains unaltered from the original distribution.
- The Family Browser (TFB) is a MDI browser that scans each site page-by-page, frame-by-frame for objectionable material before page rendering. Parents can use TFB's calendar and view all of a child's navigations and surfing habits. Options include disabling of the mailto: feature that invites kids into email exchanges, default homepage, enable-disable filtering, blocking of IE Favorites, recording of navigation, allowable and disallowable domain list and more. Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.
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BROWSERS - MOZILLA
- Firefox is a fast, full-featured browser for Windows that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing mode that lets you open several pages in a single window; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online. People who want more security than IE provides should look at Mozilla Firefox. Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Other Systems & Languages. I highly recommend this browser. -Gene
- Mozilla Suite - Web-browser with Tabbed browsing, Popup Blocker, Image Manager. Password, Download, and Cookie Managers. Advanced e-mail with Junk Mail Controls and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple. All your Internet needs in one application. The Mozilla project maintains choice and innovation on the Internet by developing the acclaimed, open source, Mozilla web and email suite and related products and technology. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Other Systems & Languages.
- Netscape - The All New Netscape Browser 8.0 - Speed, Flexibility and More Security Choices Than Any Other Browser. Netscape 8.0 warns you if you come across possible spyware sites, and automatically configures its settings to help protect you. Tabbed browsing has been expanded so you can open all of your favorite web sites in one window automatically. New Passcard Manager remembers all your screen names and passwords and can auto-fill that information on sites. Windows XP, 2000, 98 SE, ME.
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- FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird extension, meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD. FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthesize full media galleries in one page, from serial contents previously scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all". Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Firefox 0.7/0.10+.
- FoxyTunes is an Extension for Mozilla Firefox that supports the Mozilla Suite and Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. The controls are positioned on the status bar or one of the toolbars, so no extra space is wasted. FoxyTunes has several nice features. You can control the playback, adjust the volume, and see what's playing. Many more features are in development, among them advanced music-related searches. New features include Unicode support, a seek slider, an alarm clock, a sleep timer, and the shortcuts names are now more intuitive. Windows 2000/XP; Firefox Browser, Mozilla Suite, or Thunderbird.
FoxyTunes Website
- Google Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox - Take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web. Google Toolbar enables you to search the Web from any site, block unwanted pop-up ads, fill in forms with only one click, search within the pages of any site, and highlight the words you searched for on a page. Google Toolbar is free and installs in only seconds. Get one click closer to the information you want to find. This version adds a spell-check feature to check your spelling whenever you type in Web forms, an autolink feature to turn street addresses into links to online maps, and a word-translator feature to translate English words into other languages. Mozilla Firefox and Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+ or Red Hat Linux 8.0+.
- MozBackup is a utility for creating backups of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird and Netscape profiles. It allows you to backup mail, favorites, contacts, etc. This program is freeware.
- Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox with Anti-Spy is a free, customizable toolbar that lets you navigate your favorite sites and search the web from anywhere. Yahoo Toolbar also includes features like Pop-Up Blocker and Anti-Spy. Customize your toolbar and save your bookmarks online for one-click access from any computer. Mozilla Firefox and Window 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server, Mac or Linux.
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BROWSERS - POPULAR
- Ace Explorer incorporates a large collection of powerful features, such as a built-in pop-up killer, a skinnable window frame, a form filler, site groups, quick search, autologin, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script-error suppression, blacklist/whitelist filtering, and URL aliases. It brings you convenient and comfortable browsing. FREE. No Spy-ware and No Ad-ware. Easy Install & Easy Un-install. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.
Ace Explorer Website
- Advanced Browser is a fast, stable, and user-friendly multiwindow (tabbed) browser. You can browse multiple Web sites simultaneously with a pop-up stopper and Flash ads disabler. The built-in cleaner helps users clear all traces to keep their online activities private. The built-in search engine enables users to search Web pages on the Internet. The application provides options to block the download of Macromedia Flash, pictures, videos, sounds, and ActiveX components. All opened pages can be easily stopped, refreshed, closed, or arranged with only one click. FREE. No Spy-ware and No Ad-ware. Easy Install & Easy Un-install. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.
Advanced Browser Website
- AM Browser is a powerful Web browser. Crazy Browser is now AM Browser. It provides many features that make surfing the web more comfortable and less confusing. It has the ability to open multiple sites and windows inside a single browser task. This Web browser also has a Smart Pop-up Blocker! This free Web Browser has full support for Windows XP Theme and P3P privacy policy and JavaScript error suppression.... It can handle multiple monitors and has tab status indicators. Annoying ad windows can be removed automatically and multiple pages can be saved and reopened together. AM Browser comes with many preconfigured search engines, but you can extend it to use your own. If you used to open dozens of tab, but the browser always crashes, what do you think? Now, you have choice. AM Browser is the most stable tabbed Web browser! It's totally free, no ads, no spyware.
- Avant Browser - Have you ever tried surfing with a tabbed web browser? Try Avant Browser, an upgrade to Internet Explorer. Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile multi-window browser. Now, Avant Browser is available in 39 languages. Avant Browser can be best described as a custom web browser application. Avant Browser is a standalone application designed to expand services provided by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Avant Browser has a built in popup blocker. Avant Browser is freeware. No limitations. No Adware. No Spyware. I highly recommend this browser. -Gene
- Courier Email - Special Offer: For a limited time, Courier Email can be registered for FREE for unlimited use. Your free registration for Version 3.5 will never expire. An exciting and all-new update to the acclaimed Calypso e-mail program, a favorite of e-mail users for years, Courier sets a new standard of excellence for Internet e-mail clients. With the ability to turn off display of HTML mail and an encrypted address book, Courier is immune to current e-mail 'worms' that replicate themselves by harvesting e-mail addresses from the Windows Address Book and forwarding themselves to all of your contacts. Combined with an outstanding array of features and an intuitive, configurable interface, Courier is the premiere Internet e-mail alternative. Features include support for multiple e-mail accounts, a configurable and intuitive interface, turn HTML mail viewing on or off in any window with a single mouse click, 'Color Markers' to help organize your messages, automatic mailbox backup. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Courier Website
- Ideal Browser is a tabbed browser with built-in acceleration software that optimizes the delivery of Web content, the speed of your browser, and your overall system. Ideal Browser's secure cleanup feature obliterates your cache, history, cookies, and autocomplete and other private data by overwriting it 1 to 35 times before deletion. The program also blocks bandwidth-sucking ads, Web bugs, and pop-ups. You can open Web sites on separate tabs for simultaneous downloads and control media loading for extra speed. The QuickSearch and Alias features make navigation and searching as easy as a key press, and the program helps control first- and third-party cookies and P3P privacy policies. IE & Mozilla Firefox Editions. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.
Ideal Browser Website
- Internet Explorer 6 SP1, the latest version of Internet Explorer for users not running Windows XP, provides a flexible and reliable browsing experience with enhanced Web privacy features for all Windows users. This version includes a full installation of the Web browser and the most recent version of Outlook Express, the e-mail client that is included with Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 6 SP1 provides a private, reliable, and flexible browsing experience for users of Windows XP, ME, 2000, 98, NT 4.0 Service Pack 6a.
- Internet Explorer Repair Utility - IEFix is a general purpose repair utility for Internet Explorer which repairs Internet Explorer by registering it's core DLL files and reinstalls using the IE.INF file. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP systems. Windows 98/ME requires Microsoft VB6 runtimes. - Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User.
- Lexun Browser may not be a complete replacement for your favorite Internet browser, but it has some nice features lacking in other browsers. It’s really great when you're searching for something on a number of sites. A perfect example is searching for a job using the Internet. You can go to a site, click one button to add it to your favorites, and continue. When you've accumulated a number of sites, you can click Next Favorite Site to take you, sequentially, to each site, in the order you desire. You can cover a lot of ground this way. You can quickly copy web text, or text from any application on the desktop, to a single file. For instance, you could highlight contact names and numbers and add them to a file. When you're done, you have all the names and contacts together in one text file. The Lexun Browser also keeps a history of visited sites (up to 40). You can delete the history at any time. Free. Requires Microsoft's .NET Framework, Win XP/2K.
- Maxthon Tabbed Browser - MyIE2 is now Maxthon. The change was made because we felt a better name was needed to promote such a powerful browser and avoid possible confusions. Same as MyIE2, Maxthon is still free to use, has all previous features you've got used to and more new ones to enjoy. MyIE2 is the most powerful and fully customized browser on earth. It can open multiple web pages in just one window, and comes with tons of other nice features. Download.com. Free. No limitations. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Maxthon Website
- Opera 8.5 web browser is now available for free download. Unlike previous free versions of Opera, this is a full version release with no integrated ads. Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market, Opera includes Pop-up blocking, Tabbed browsing, Integrated searches, Pop-up blocking, Fast forward, Password manager, Mouse gestures, Quick preferences, Notes, Voice, Security and privacy, Security bar, Encryption, Delete private data, Cookie control and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program with built-in POP/IMAP E-mail client, RSS/Atom Newsfeeds and IRC chat. And because we know that our users have different needs, you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse. Easy Switch: Opera can import your existing bookmarks, contacts, and e-mails. Opera's cross-platform availability and many user-friendly features are ideal for all users regardless of platform or accessibility needs.
- Slim Browser is a tabbed multiple-site browser. It incorporates a large collection of powerful features like built-in popup killer, skinned window frame, form filler, site group, quick-search, auto login, hidden sites, built-in commands and scripting, online translation, script error suppression, blacklist / whitelist filtering, URL Alias. It brings you convenient and comfortable browsing. Freeware. Win95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP/2003.
- BrowserTune 2000 - Fred Langa's On-line Browser Tuner.
- Download.com - Download site for 100+ browsers.
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BROWSERS - PLUG-INS+
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 lets you view and print Adobe PDF files on a variety of hardware and operating system platforms. Acrobat Reader provides a host of features that enable you to submit PDF forms created with fillable form fields to such applications as Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional and Adobe Form Designer. Play back a variety of embedded multimedia content, such as QuickTime and MP3 files. Read and organize high-fidelity e-books. Activate search and accessibility capabilities built into your PDF files, and display Adobe Photoshop Album slide shows and electronic cards. Version 7.0 offers enhanced performance with faster loading and zooming, expanded device compatibility, and extended application support for files attached to PDF documents. Editor's Note: This program is a download manager that will trigger a larger, 27MB download. Bundled programs include Yahoo Toolbar with Anti-Spy and Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition. During installation, you may choose not to install these programs by refusing to accept their license agreements. Adobe Acrobat Reader will still install.
- CleanMOCache is written to be very unobtrusive...just set it and forget it. CleanMOCache runs from the system tray and will clean after Mozilla/Netscape/Firefox/Opera browser close, Windows start and Windows shutdown. CleanMOCache will delete browser cache files, history, cookies, typed URLs, and Form AutoComplete. It will also delete Recent Documents, Start Run History, Temporary Directories and Registry MRUs. Window 2000/XP and .NET Framework 1.1.
CleanMOCache Website
- Copernic Meta lets you search multiple search engines in less than a second directly from your desktop bar. It also integrates with Internet Explorer as a browser toolbar. Metasearch the Web for better coverage and compare prices online. Search for images, audio, multimedia, news, and auctions. Add your favorite search engines and information sources easily. Search directly from any application by hitting the Windows key and S. Easily locate search keywords in Web pages. Press Alt+Click on any word on a Web page to start a search on it. Define keyboard shortcuts to query a specific search engine. With this new version, you will be able to automatically and very easily add custom search engines allowing you to cover most of the Web. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0+.
Copernic Meta Website
- FlashGot is a free Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird extension, meant to handle single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD. FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page, from serial contents previously scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all". Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, Firefox 0.7/0.10+.
- ieSpell - A Spell Checker for Internet Explorer. Important - ieSpell is not spyware or adware. It is free for personal use only. - This is a good one for use with Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. This checks web pages, as in posting to the group or filling out form on the web. It checks just like Word does in Outlook 2000. - Frank
- OutlookZIP is an Add-On for Microsoft Outlook. It makes easy for you to compress the files that you attach to Microsoft Outlook e-mail messages. OutlookZIP integrate directly to Outlook toolbar making the usage simple easy. OutlookZIP works only with Outlook 2000 and newer versions. It does not work with Outlook Express. The created ZIP files can be open by a standard ZIP programs, such as Winzip. OutlookZIP has also the possibility to protect ZIP files with password. OutlookZIP have also the possibility to unblock same files types witch are by default blocked by Outlook. Windows ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.
OutlookZIP Website
- Pop-Up Stopper - Block pesky ads in Netscape, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla with the latest upgrade of this small, free tool. Now block Messenger Service and GAIN ad-server desktop ads. There's no need to adjust proxy settings or add sites to a list. Pop-Up Stopper will not strip Web images or slow your browser. You can allow pop-up windows when you want them. User settings allow various pop-up notifications, such as flashing icons or new, fun sounds. Simply hold the Ctrl or Shift key to allow selective pop-up windows; but most new links should open automatically. Pop-Up Stopper is not advertising-supported, nor does it require registration, and no information is collected from or about product users. The program is small and easy to use. It comes complete with full install and uninstall, a setup wizard, an online help file, and free unlimited tech support. It's guaranteed from a company you trust. This version has enhanced ad-blocking. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
Pop-Up Stopper Website
- Webwasher - This program helps you remove unwanted ads, which form 30 to 40 percent of the data you download. Blocking these ads creates a huge gain in bandwidth. This version features some minor changes in the online help, and fixed a Web Bugs Filter that caused an internal error on some Web pages. Windows 95/98/NT/2000.
- WordIQ Toolbar - Block pop-up ads and delete your browsing history with the wordIQ Toolbar. Additionally, wordIQ can also help you quickly and conveniently search the Web. Some of wordIQ's toolbar features include the pop-up killer feature to stop annoying pop-up windows, history killer to wipe your browsing history, spam assassin to block unwanted spam e-mail, and integrated Web search to conveniently and instantly search the Internet. FREE Dictionary & Encyclopedia from your PC!
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CHAT CLIENT
- Adium X, a multiple-protocol instant-messaging client. This is a culmination of a yearlong rewrite of Adium, which now utilizes Libgaim (the core part of GAIM) to connect to multiple protocols, and also is based on a new plug-in architecture. Partial address-book integration, cool-looking tabs, multiple protocols for instant messaging, and a compact contact list are some of the many features of the new Adium X. Some core features include support for AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, Trepia, Napster, and Gadu-Gadu; unlimited accounts; as many names on as many services as you want; draggable tabs; any number of tabs in any number of windows; highly customizable yet intuitive preferences; address-book integration; iTunes and other AppleScript substitution buddy icons and away messages in AIM; and the beginnings of file-transfer support for AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber. Mac OS X 10.2.
Adium X Website
- Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, and more. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Gaim Website
- Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings. Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications. While you'll occasionally lose contact with AIM, that's AOL's fault. Credit Trillian for fixing these blocks quickly. The best thing about Trillian is that it's absolutely free--there's no adware or functionality limitations. Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
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RSS READERS
- Active Web Reader is a FREE RSS feed reader. Browse feeds, Web, and search RSS headlines. Advanced auto discovery identifies new feeds as you browse. Small and extremely fast. Active Web Reader’s has an excellent interface which makes it easy to view and read your RSS feeds. Control all RSS feed properties including the update frequency. It notifies you when updates a occur. A unique instant e-mail feature allows you to send any interesting article you find while browsing to friends with a single click of the mouse. You can also monitor web sites changes. It will highlight the exact content that was changed on the web page. Now you can easily import your favorite web sites and automatically monitor them for changes. Active Web Reader includes a few interesting feeds and a RSS pop-up blocker. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server.
Active Web Reader Website
- Blog Navigator is a fast and easy-to-use program for browsing blog sites. It uses RSS feeds as its input and supports many types of sites. It also includes features for reading blogs offline, as well as putting different blog sites together to create your own customized browsing preferences. Download.com Review: Though some of the included feeds may come off as too political for certain users, Blog Navigator stands as a solid way to track your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. Upon launching this program, you can tell it's of good quality due to its excellent design. A slick-looking, three-paned interface makes it easy to locate preloaded Weblogs, check for headlines of interest, and view picks in a fancy, tabbed navigation window. Adding news sites and blogs is easy, requiring you simply to right-click and paste the XML feed found on most major news sites. The application's navigation window is head-and-shoulders above most competitors, offering its own browsing buttons, zoom capabilities, and the ability to view stories in Newspaper form (essentially an easy-to-read list of stories). This newsreader is great once you get past the in-your-face politics of some of the included feeds, as well as the ones that tout the developer's other products. That said, Blog Navigator's excellent navigation scheme and multitude of useful tools will help you get your news quickly and in style. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.
Blog Navigator Website
- BlogMatrix Jager is an extensible, one-panel RSS, blog, and newsreader designed for speed and ease of use. The application takes only a small amount of screen real estate and uses a browser to display blog entries. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
BlogMatrix Jager Website
- Desktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the Internet. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control. How can you make this possible? Choose from among a wide selection of information conduits (MS Outlook, toolbars, newsfeeds), called 'panels.' Fully customizable, Desktop Sidebar allows you to dock these panels to the edge of the screen, or arrange them anywhere on your desktop as you wish. All panels are configurable with a number of specific options. With hundreds of skins available on our Web site and an easy-to-use Skin Editor, you can freely change the appearance of Desktop Sidebar to suit your tastes. Available panels: Newsroom, Calendar, Tasks, Inbox, Notes, Performance, Mail Checker, Clock, Messenger, Miranda IM and ICQ, Media Player, WinAmp, Volume Control, Toolbar, Weather, and Search Bar. Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003 Server, Internet Explorer 5.5+.
Desktop Sidebar Website
- FeedReader is a lightweight, open-source aggregator that supports all major RSS formats. It focuses on the main task--reading and organizing RSS feeds and offering a seamless user experience. The installation file is less than 1.3MB, and, best of all, it's free. FeedReader is licensed under GPL, and its source is available for download, so you can build on it, tailor it to your needs, or even rebrand it for your customers. Version 2.6 offers extended ATOM feed support. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
FeedReader Website
- HoverNews is a small news grabbing application that is designed to work with custom backend files, RSS and RDF feeds as well as parsing the HTML of any website. HoverNews will scroll the headlines from your favorite website so that you can be kept updated with a variety of news. Some of the websites that HoverNews works with are DeviantART, CNN, ABCNews, Slashdot, kuro5hin and more. The program supports skins. Freeware. 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
- Newsplorer is a fully skinnable newsreader that supports all the major news-syndication formats available today. You can add an unlimited number of news sources and group them by category. Newsplorer will periodically update all news sources and display the fresh items in the system tray. You're welcome to start developing skins; the skinnable framework is simple and straightforward to use. Newsplorer is nonintrusive and is free of spyware and adware. Dialog size and position are saved between runs and you always aquire a new browser window on first link clicked. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Newsplorer Website
- Pluck is designed to improve how you consume, control, and create information on the Web. Get an RSS reader. Perch (persistently search) Web pages and product listings from Google, eBay, Amazon, news sites, and Web logs with automatic notification for new entries or price changes. Discover new feeds on any topic with an integrated RSS feed directory and search engine. Save feeds, perches, and bookmarks all in one folder, keeping related information in one place. Pluck allows you to capture, notate, store, and send a page link from one place. Publish folders to the Internet on Pluck-hosted Web pages. Allow visitors to subscribe to your public folder to receive updates via a built-in RSS feed. Synchronize folders and your entire saved Web stuff across your home and work PCs. Windows 2000/XP, Internet Explorer 6.0.
Pluck Website
- RSS Popper is a news aggregator add-in for Outlook. News items delivered directly to Outlook as e-mails. No need to use a separate program for reading RSS anymore. All RSS/RDF/Atom formats are supported. Version 0.23c adds RSS 2.0 media support (Podcast) and an option to import OPML feeds to separate folders, even if they are not in the OPML. Freeware. Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server and Outlook 2000, XP, 2003 and .NET Framework 1.1.
RSS Popper Website
- RssReader is a free reader for RSS newsfeeds. It collects news in the background at user-configurable intervals and warns you with a small pop-up in the system tray when a new message has arrived. You can click the headline to see a short description and then open the original Web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for indicating news. RssReader supports RSS versions 0.9x, 1.0, and 2.0. Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and .NET Framework.
RssReader Website
- ToolButton is a desktop RSS Reader tool that integrates seamlessly as a deskbar. Use the built-in search bar via a pull down menu categorized with over 80 popular search engines. Get the up-to-date content with the built-in RSS reader. Add your favorite website's button to access their links and feeds; get their newsletters or late breaking news delivered through email-like "Alerts". No adware or spyware. Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server.
ToolButton Website
- Serence KlipFolio is a free information-awareness and -notification application for Windows. It's quick to install and easy to use. KlipFolio lets you configure and monitor a wide variety of real-time information services on your desktop, such as weather, stocks, breaking news, RSS feeds, and auctions. These information services are called Klips, and hundreds are available at KlipFarm.com. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Serence KlipFolio Website
- SharpReader is an RSS Aggregator for Windows. Features include the ability to handle all RSS versions, ATOM, modules like dublin core, advanced threading support that allows you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion. SharpReader also detects and shows connections between items if they have same link, if one item links to another, if two items both link to the same external webpage, or if an item has comments (for feeds supporting the standard). In addition, SharpReader groups subscribed feeds into custom categories and reduces bandwidth by using HTTP Conditional GETs and gzip/deflate encoding. Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
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