A I promised, here is a articele which will help to know how powerful Open Source Software are. Here are some Open Source RSS feed readers.
RSS Bandit:
RSS Bandit is an RSS/Atom RSSReader. This one allows the user with the functionality of a desktop client and a Web-based RSS Reader (such as Newsgator Online), synchronizing the state of their subscribed feeds. For this, the user must have an account on Newsgator Online.
The user can synchronize particular sessions of RSS Bandit using FTP or a file share utility. The data is transferred in a ZIP file that contains information about the current state of the feeds such as flagged items, read/unread messages etc. This is extremely useful for people who use RSS Bandit on different computers like from home and work.
The User Interface: The toolbar has all the operational tools. It is placed at the top of the interface window. The list of the feeds to which the user is subscribed is on the left side. The feeds are organised into category folders created by the user. To create a new category, the user needs to right click on any existing category folder. This will bring up a context menu, with ‘New Category’ as its second option. The Feed Details panel is on the right side and is divided into two panes. The first pane contains the list of headlines for the selected feed or feed category. Right-clicking on a headline item brings up a menu that allows the user to post a reply, flag it, copy it, etc. The second pane contains the actual content of a selected headline. The look and feel of the reading pane can be customised by choosing a format stylesheet via the Options menu. RSS Bandit allows the user to customise the layout of the reading pane and headlines list by going to the View menu and selecting “Reading Pane Position”.
Configuring Newsgroups: For configuring RSS Bandit, the user has to specify a public NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) server—for example, news. microsoft.com—and subscribe to newsgroups on that server. Under the Tools menu, select the Newsgroups > Menu item.
This will bring up the Manage Newsgroups dialog. Here, you click on the Add News Server button to add a newsgroup server. In the field labelled News Account, you enter in a username for the news server. For the Default Identity, you select an identity to associate with the desired newsgroup postings. Then you click on the Server Settings option to enter the server connection information. In the Server Name field you enter the DNS entry (or IP address). To display a list of all the newsgroups on the server, you click on the news server within the tree view, and then on the Refresh List button. After a brief moment, the list view will be populated with the available newsgroups. To subscribe to a newsgroup, you either double-click the newsgroup in the list or select the newsgroup and click the Subscribe button. This will bring up the Add New Subscription dialog. Hereon, the procedure is similar to subscribing to a Feed. Once the Wizard is done, the newsgroup shows up in the list of fee subscriptions.
RSSOwl
RSSOwl is a news aggregator for RSS and Atom News feeds. It gathers data from RSS-compliant sites. It also allows to organise, update, and store information from any compliant source. Apart from this, it also saves selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing. RSSOwl generates PDF / RTF / HTML documents from any news source, and has a powerful search engine for searching for particular news feeds. The software allows to send mail NewsTip to friends about shared areas of interest. It can also display secure news feeds from HTTPS servers.
