Free TiVo For The Internet
I am sort of a news junky. I spend some time every day checking several web sites for the important news of the day. I tend to keep up with the technical goings on more than other types of news, however, I always check a couple of normal news sites to make sure I am not missing anything important.
I really didn't start fiddling with site feeds, aka RSS (Really Simple Syndication), until Firefox came about. In Firefox you can add RSS feeds from your favorite sites to your tool bar thereby bringing all of your news into one easy to look at place. As an aside I believe that the next version of IE (IE7) will support RSS. Almost all news sites have a news feed feature.
While the Firefox RSS links are very cool. I have found a warm place in my heart for SharpReader (supports RSS and Atom specifications). This is a very simple (and FREE) news reader (or news aggregator) that it very easy to learn and use. I find that I am able to much more quickly gather the latest news from many more sites than I can with Firefox.
In a nutshell, I just have to tell the program what sites I want to gather information from and it automatically begins collecting data from those sites and the latest news headlines are delivered directly to me every 15 minutes. I am always up to date and I don't have to sift through a bunch of flashy advertisements.
Here is a screenshot sample Sharp Reader:
If you own a TIVO or some other brand of DVR then you know how revolutionary having on demand TV is. And, if you are like me, you probably wondered why you waited so long and now have no idea how other people can stand to watch so many darn commercials...
Anyway, I have had a similar experience, although to a slightly lesser degree, with the SharpReader news aggregator. The bottom line is that it saves me a TREMENDOUS amount of time sorting through all my news and I can now review many more news items in a fraction of the time. [Hand Slapping Forehead] What took me so long to get with the program.
I really didn't start fiddling with site feeds, aka RSS (Really Simple Syndication), until Firefox came about. In Firefox you can add RSS feeds from your favorite sites to your tool bar thereby bringing all of your news into one easy to look at place. As an aside I believe that the next version of IE (IE7) will support RSS. Almost all news sites have a news feed feature.
While the Firefox RSS links are very cool. I have found a warm place in my heart for SharpReader (supports RSS and Atom specifications). This is a very simple (and FREE) news reader (or news aggregator) that it very easy to learn and use. I find that I am able to much more quickly gather the latest news from many more sites than I can with Firefox.
In a nutshell, I just have to tell the program what sites I want to gather information from and it automatically begins collecting data from those sites and the latest news headlines are delivered directly to me every 15 minutes. I am always up to date and I don't have to sift through a bunch of flashy advertisements.
Here is a screenshot sample Sharp Reader:
If you own a TIVO or some other brand of DVR then you know how revolutionary having on demand TV is. And, if you are like me, you probably wondered why you waited so long and now have no idea how other people can stand to watch so many darn commercials...
Anyway, I have had a similar experience, although to a slightly lesser degree, with the SharpReader news aggregator. The bottom line is that it saves me a TREMENDOUS amount of time sorting through all my news and I can now review many more news items in a fraction of the time. [Hand Slapping Forehead] What took me so long to get with the program.
