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FeedRoller

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FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS feed ticker.

It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites and blogs, directly on your desktop.

Features

Supports RSS, and Atom feed format. Shows news title, summary, age and source. Customizable interface.

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License model

  • Free • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows
  • PortableApps.com
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Import/Export OPML Feeds
  2.  Portable

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FeedRoller information

  • Developed by

    Sector Seven (Danny Ben Shitrit)

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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FeedRoller was added to AlternativeTo by Allen on Nov 10, 2011 and this page was last updated Aug 28, 2018.

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Review in a nutshell:

Likes

  • Portable
  • Works out of the box from behind company proxy

Dislikes

  • Cannot scroll the news horizontally
  • Cannot specify the exact location of the ticker
  • Cannot make background transparent
  • Non-standard GUI (Options)

Back to finding the perfect portable desktop news ticker...

What is FeedRoller?

FeedRoller is a lightweight RSS feed ticker.

It is designed to show scrolling headlines from your favorite news sites and blogs, directly on your desktop.

Features

Supports RSS, and Atom feed format. Shows news title, summary, age and source. Customizable interface. May be "pinned" to the desktop (always visible) or automatically hide when the computer is in use. May be set to automatically hide when in full screen applications (games, movies etc.) Customizable keyboard shortcuts to pause the scrolling, pin the ticker, visit the news item and more. Can import and export feeds from other feed readers (using OPML). Supports subscribing to feeds directly from Firefox. Portable.

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