What is a good RSS reader and an EFFECTIVE plan for using it.

DeathtoToasters · Feb 7, 2007

Title says it all. My biggest concern is no necessarily the software, but more an effective way of using it.

I don't want it to take up all my time trying to read posts and figuring out how to use everything.

Any suggestions?

trpnmonkey41 · Feb 7, 2007

I use http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Have my feeds loaded up and its very easy to flip through the titles by hitting the spacebar, return brings up the store

Discerptor · Feb 7, 2007

I think Safari's built-in RSS capabilities are kind of nice and clean.

thermidor · Feb 8, 2007

No no no. The way forward is Newsticker.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/newsticker

Drag and drop RSS feeds onto it to subscribe. Then you just leave it running at the bottom of the screen whilst all your feeds are continuously scrolled past you. If you want to read something, you click it.

So you don't actually have to DO anything at all to see your news feeds, apart from using your Mac as normal.

DeathtoToasters · Feb 8, 2007

thermidor said:
No no no. The way forward is Newsticker.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/newsticker

Drag and drop RSS feeds onto it to subscribe. Then you just leave it running at the bottom of the screen whilst all your feeds are continuously scrolled past you. If you want to read something, you click it.

So you don't actually have to DO anything at all to see your news feeds, apart from using your Mac as normal.

Sounds perfect....going to try that out right now

DeathtoToasters · Feb 8, 2007

thermidor said:
No no no. The way forward is Newsticker.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/newsticker

Drag and drop RSS feeds onto it to subscribe. Then you just leave it running at the bottom of the screen whilst all your feeds are continuously scrolled past you. If you want to read something, you click it.

So you don't actually have to DO anything at all to see your news feeds, apart from using your Mac as normal.

Ok this program is ALMOST perfect.... do yo know of a way to do the following:

Make all my opened programs see the bottom of the ticker (I placed mine on top) as the top of the screen?

It covers all the top buttons of any program.
Or maybe let the dock sit on the top line of the ticker (if the program is docked on the bottom)

Thanks

RiDE · Feb 13, 2007

I have downloaded Newsticker.... I am trying to use the Mac-Forums RSS feed with it... How??? I dragged the url address into the ticker, but got a Growl notification saying "RSS failed"... Can anyone help???

Thanks.

**EDIT: I figured it out... You need to click the "RSS" icon, the drag the URL (it begins with "FEED:") into the Newsticker bar.