Feedreader 3: Tom Thumb of feed readers

Bringing your feed reader in your pocket. The Feedreader 3 must be one of the smallest desktop feed reader around. The installation file is less than 4 Mb and can be installed and run from a USB flash drive. It runs on Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer (It runs quite well on Firefox Mozilla) and can be operated from Windows 2000 or newer.

Two things stand-out that Feedreader 3’s website or Two things that Feedreader 3 promises two things:

1. Unparalleled functionality

2. Powerful, yet simple

Feedreader 3 one can listen to podcasts and most important they have a way to filter all the feeds one subscribes to called SmartFeed. And you can mark the post and read it later in the Starred News Folder. And so far it is easy to navigate through out the reader. And its free.

Too bad it is only available as an app for most Windows OS. You can download Feedreader 3 here and you can get more information and news from their blog.

Before downloading FeedReader 3 here is a complete features below.

Features of Feedreader 3:

I. Improved user interface

- Radically simplified user interface
- One-click access for different view modes
- Popular “River Of News” view
- Grouping headlines by source, date or tag
- Possibility to add and remove columns from view

II. Powerful filtering and smartfeed engine

- Ultimate configurability, every normal feed can be converted to smartfeed and vice versa
- Possibility to combine multiple feeds to one feed

III. Perfomance improvements

- Better handling of large number of feeds
- Faster startup and shutdown times
- Smart feed updates – unique algorithm that learns the update frequency of feeds and triggers the updates only when needed

IV. Other

- Enclosures and podcasting support
- Tagging support
- Nested folder support
- Full Unicode support
- Secure (SSL) connection support

V. Requirements

- Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer
- Windows 2000 or newer
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