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Apps I Love … GreatNews RSS Reader

Published in May 5th, 2009

Once upon a time, I used to check various websites for news. I would have a bookmark folder in my browser with several news sites that I would visit one after another. These

days, most news and blog sites have RSS Feeds. With RSS Feeds, I can see just the new posts added to the website. To help keep the RSS Feeds easily readable, I use GreatNews RSS Reader.

GreatNews allows me to add whatever RSS Feeds I want to track. When I launch the program, GreatNews takes the list of my RSS Feeds and checks to see if there are any new posts. These posts will show beginning of the article. If I then want to read more of the article, I click on the link to be taken to the full article on the originating website.

For more information on RSS, check out RSS In Plain English from CommonCraft.