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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 27, 2006
- Total Downloads: 2,591
- Downloads last week: 2
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
There's a lot to like with this freeware feed reader/ticker, but it suffers from a couple of bad programming choices. Bizz RSS Feed Liner's interface is split among a feed manager, feed ticker, and an options box. A single option set would be preferable, but most users will have little trouble finding settings.
We were more disappointed by the extra steps needed to remove prepopulated feed categories. The program uses the tree model to lists feeds; which might lead users to expect they could delete all subfolders of a category with a single click. Instead, you must first delete each of the categories feeds, then remove the subcategories, then the full categories.
Cleaning out the categories and feeds is just the first step for new Bizz RSS Feed Liner users, but adding feeds and customizing the program is quick and simple. Click a button, type in the URL, and the program automatically discovers available feeds. With a click you can choose to display select feeds in the program's Feed Ticker; a scrolling headline display that is the feed reader's best feature. You can easily set the ticker to display items in time or feed order, speed up or slow down the crawl speed, and display or hide read items. Unfortunately, you can't set the items to open in your default browser. The program is hard-coded to open items in the publisher's Internet Explorer-based browser. We found that browser less robust than Firefox, or the latest IE, as many pages suffered from script errors.
Bizz RSS Feed Liner also had trouble loading test feeds with unusual URLs, although the feeds were RSS 2.0 standard. Minor problems aside, this easily customizable freeware reader deserves a place on the desktop of any busy user.
Publisher's description
From Digital Systems & Technologies :Bizz FeedLiner is definitely different from all the Feed Readers you may have seen up to now and this is not the only reason why it is for sure worth to try. Key new features include: News-Bar (Ticker) with rolling text an pop-up hints instead of the always jammed News-Box; ideal for presentations of leaflets, flyers and product catalogues; instead of earlier small banners you can now switch to full screen adverts; preloaded built-in catalogues and example feeds; access to Online worldwide Feed catalogue; allows full company branding; unique internal Feed Browser with template selection option; possibility to work with RSS but also with all the other XML files using embedded XSL templates system.
Version 4.11.01 in addition to minor changes and bug fixes there is substantial enhancement of compataility with new Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7 beta 3.
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Version: Bizz RSS Feed Liner 4.11.01
"Started out great... and then found disappointment"
Pros: I really enjoy the options and the layout more than any other ticker I've tried.
Would be nice to see a few tweaks:
- Change font and font size of the Feedliner
- Change font and size of the News Preview
- Rename the Folders/Tree Nodes in Feed Manager
- Drag and Drop feeds into different folders
Cons: All of the above are just minor tweaks that would be nice... but the big major problem is the inability to open feeds in your default web browser! Being forced to use a proprietary browser makes this sadly a no go for me.
I tried to e-mail support to see if they were planning future changes, and the e-mails were returned as undeliverable.
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Version: Bizz RSS Feed Liner 4.11.01
"Great tool! Scroll bar is really nice and useful. The best RSS Reader out there"
Pros: Scroll bar is very nice and useful too. You can control the speed in which the news titles will scroll. It is easy to add new feed URLs
Cons: That it needs to displace my shortcuts, though it is not that much annoying. Eitherway it can't work! Let it be...
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