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Onfolio 2.0 Feed Reader
"Feed Readers," sometimes called "News Aggregators," allow you to read the content from multiple blogs and news sites in one easily-accessible place without having to visit each individual web page. Any site that triggers the Live Bookmarks Icon
www.mozilla.org/images/scr...ss-icon.png
in the lower-right hand corner of Firefox or has an orange "RSS" or "XML" button somewhere on the page has a "feed" that can push content to these news aggregators.
One of the best and easiest-to-use news aggregators available today is Onfolio v2.0. What separates Onfolio from most aggregators is that it is built into your web browser. Usually, the personal edition is $29.95, but O'Reilly (the company that makes many of the best computer books available today) is celebrating the opening of it's new site, Annoyances Central, by giving away registered copies of Onfolio here:
annoyancescentral.com/offer.html
until August 8th.
Personally, my favorite feed reader is an open-source desktop aggregator (a free, standalone program that operates very similarly to Microsoft Outlook) called RSS Bandit
www.rssbandit.org/ow.asp
but since it's free, you can download that any time... So go get Onfolio while you have the chance. If you don't like it, you can always uninstall it, but at least this way you can try it out.
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Mark
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posted 08/02/05
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