Quite RSS

Instead of sur ng through endless tech news sites, it’s much better to use some dedicated aggregation software. Since 1995, RSS has proven to be the most comfortable method of delivering news and articles. It’s grown from Rich Site Summary in the early days to Really Simple Syndication at present. Many websites make their own RSS feeds, which are designed as custom XML pages on speci c URLs. Though the contents of an RSS feed can be viewed in any web browser, it’s primarily designed to be used with RSS clients, and there are plenty of them about, both for web-based and standalone use. QuiteRSS is one of the latter. It’s feature-rich, yet it doesn’t get in the way unless, of course, you want it to. The top-left pane shows the list of feeds and a toolbar to add new feeds or modify existing ones. Just below there’s a tree of coloured labels, which let you mark feeds and then easily nd them. The main part of the window resembles an email client and displays the list of news from the feeds and shows the contents of the currentlyselected news item. The lower pane presenting the contents is a fully featured web browser – you’ll notice that once you click on any link in the body of the news. It has the AdBlock extension and enables you to switch whether images are displayed, though it won’t let you go to a custom web address in the input bar. Instead, you can use the ‘globe’ button on the toolbar to open the URL you’re at in your default web browser. QuiteRSS has a very clean and easy-to-use interface, it supports classic and newspaper viewing modes, advanced searching tools (including searching in links), several selection methods (such as stars, labels and ltering) and lots of precise controls over the way the noti cation messages work