Everybody is connected to the internet almost all the day by means of either regular internet connection or through smartphone. Atleast I do and I am sure many others also do the same. But still there are some users who don’t have the facility of being connected all the time. Either they have some financial problems or hard luck.
I can include myself in the community of hard luck as I don’t have a Broadband connection in my college hostel and I have to use Dialup for connecting to internet as my college is in the outskirts of Jaipur. Coming back to the point. Other than blogging, I love to read about what others are making a buzz about but I don’t even have a personal computer or laptop here, in hostel, I find it difficult to track my feeds. So I started looking for a workaround in which I can carry my feeds on my pendrive and then read it anywhere whenever I get time. My search was ended in a few minutes as I found this great portable application : Portable Feed Reader and the best part being that it don’t even cost a penny. It is a freeware. Now many dialup users or mobile computer users can carry their feed with themself and read it at their will.
Features of Portable Feed Reader :
Improved user interface
- Radically simplified user interface
- One-click access for different view modes
- Popular “River Of News” view
- Grouping headlines by source, date or tag
- Possibility to add and remove columns from view
Powerful filtering and smartfeed engine
- Ultimate configurability, every normal feed can be converted to smartfeed and vice versa
- Possibility to combine multiple feeds to one feed
Perfomance improvements
- Better handling of large number of feeds
- Faster startup and shutdown times
- Smart feed updates – unique algorithm that learns the update frequency of feeds and triggers the updates only when needed
Other
- Enclosures and podcasting support
- Tagging support
- Nested folder support
- Full Unicode support
- Secure (SSL) connection support
It is very light application that can serve the purpose just the way you would want it to. Definately worth of adding into your portable applications collection. Give it a try and let me know your reactions.
Size : 4.5 MB
Download Portable Feed Reader v3.11
Comments
5 responses to “Portable Feed Reader – Carry your feeds with you”
THis will definately come in handy for me as i dont have a fast net connection in college. Nice find.
I will give it try. Thanks for this info 🙂
i tried it and it’s really good but the only thing it lacks is the ability to order posts into it’s categories
update : it does allow sorting feeds by tags , but it doesn’t allow using of gecko engine , and it’s using trident [ i hate IE ]
@Ebook
You are welcome. 🙂
@ameo
Why don’t you give the developer these suggestions for the next version?