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License:
Free to try; $30.00 to buy
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
785
- Operating Systems:
Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
- Limitations:
30-day trial
- Date Added:
April 18, 2009
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Publisher's description of FastTrackNews
FastTrackNews is a free portable RSS feed reader and news aggregator. The program reduces the time and effort needed to regularly check mass media Websites for updates and can be used as news and blog browser. Once subscribed to a feed, FastTrackNews is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. You can easily organize news channels in a fully customizable tree structure and browse actual news articles using built-in or external Webbrowser. FastTrackNews uses a Web feed to retrieve syndicated news given in XML-based formats (Atom, and RSS), rapidly downloads news articles from various Web sources in background and displays them in comfortable customizable views. The program supports password protected feeds, has the ability to expire news items so they get deleted after a certain amount of days. FastTrackNews is simple and easy to use, offers a no-nonsense Outlook Express-like user interface.
Version 2 adds Newsgroup reader and nntp support.
Editor's review of FastTrackNews
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- Version reviewed: FastTrackNews 2.01
It offers the standard features found in nearly every other free RSS reader, but nothing that makes FastTrackNews stand out.
FastTrackNews has a self-explanatory three-panel interface: one for viewing your list of feed sources, one for seeing the list of feeds for a selected source, and one to view them in. We did like the ability to create a schedule for checking new feeds, and for deleting them, but everything else was run of the mill. We were able to easily add new feed links by copying and pasting the link into the field, and the feed quickly appeared in the tree menu without any issues. Viewing a feed is a simple matter of clicking, and they're rendered exactly as they are on the source page.
It's free and simple to use, but if you already have a feed reader, you won't find any compelling reason to switch over to FastTrackNews. We can recommend it to those new to RSS feed readers for its ease of use.
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