RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. This is a renowned web technology and gaining popularity day by day. If you are a busy person who is highly involved with the internet and rely on the internet heavily, RSS will save your valuable time. If you access certain websites like news sites, blogs, weather sites daily to find the updates, instead of accessing them directly you can use their RSS feeds(if available) and read them all in a single RSS reader. Then all you have to do is opening the RSS reader and read the updates. By doing this, you can also read only the updates that you want and ignore others. Many websites provide RSS service today as they have understood the importance of having such a service.

I have listed the 5 most popular free RSS readers below where you can download them from download.com.

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KlipFolio

Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Developers’ intro:

KlipFolio is the world’s smallest and most configurable personal dashboard. It can be used to monitor anything online, such as weather, stocks, Hotmail, news, RSS feeds and even auctions, right on the desktop. With KlipFolio, you don’t have to give up your desktop to stay on top of what matters to you. And with over 4000 Klips available for download—all small, resizable, customizable and skinnable—you’re sure to find exactly what you need to stay ahead of, well, everyone.

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RSS Bandit

Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server, Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1

Developers’ intro:

RSS Bandit is an RSS and Atom reader written with the .NET Framework. Features include the ability to view news items in customizable newspaper views, the ability to synchronize the read and unread state of the application across multiple computers, the ability to expire items so they get deleted after a certain amount of days, fine grained control of how often items are downloaded, support for password protected feeds, reduced bandwidth consumption by using HTTP conditional GETs and GZIP encoding, search folders, viewing comments directly in the reader without going to the site, posting comments from the reader, integrated Web search, tabbed browsing, and security settings for disabling unsafe browser features like ActiveX.

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Snarfer

Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

Developers’ intro:

Snarfer is an easy, fast and free approach to enjoying RSS, ATOM, and XML feeds. Snarfer comes with hundreds of feeds to choose from, includes a tabbed browser and has wizards to help you construct complex searches for EBay and Craigslist that update as new results become available. Snarfer can synchronize with the free Bloglines service so you can access your feeds from another location (like the office or an Internet cafe) with a browser.

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YeahReader

Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista

Developers’ intro:

YeahReader is a program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and podcasts. The program provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support, and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to quickly write messages to your LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML and support. Version 2.22.235 includes unspecified updates.

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Mighty Ticker

Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/XP/2003 Server/Vista

Developers’ intro:

Mighty Ticker is an RSS ticker. The clean and elegant desktop news ticker enables online, personalized RSS news feeds from Web sites selected and controlled by the user. Information from your news sources is discreetly scrolled on your PC desktop while you work or play. For those of us who need streamlined news feeds, Mighty Ticker is the answer. Mighty Ticker captures and displays streamlined data at the speed of the Net. Why is this beneficial? Because the tool carves out just the information you want from a mountain of data availed by the Internet. Forget about specialized programming, additional fees, and trying to kluge something together, Mighty Ticker does it for you.

Make sure that you download one of these which suits your computer system and requirements.